A Kaiju Christmas Carol

A Kaiju Christmas Carol is a 2018 British-American dark fantasy monster film. The film is an adaptation Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol mixed with the kaiju genre.

Synopsis
Ebeneezer Scrooge, a stingy, aging tin magnate, is visited by three titanic monsters three nights before Christmas, which inadvertently help to make Scrooge a better man.

Plot
In 1860's England, one prone to attacks by giant monsters dubbed kaiju, Ebeneezer Scrooge is the owner of a Devon tin mine. Years of bad business and personal decisions have left him a bitter man living alone in Plymouth, and the Christmas spirit has done nothing to change it. He declines his nephew Fred Holywell's invitation to a Christmas dinner party in London, and rejects a message by the local government to help with the aftermath of the most recent kaiju attack. The latter decision proves to be a huge blow, causing business for him to plummet, not to mention being threatened to be evicted from his home within three days. During this period, he reluctantly agrees to give his employee Bob Cratchit a payed day off with his family.

As Scrooge starts packing up his belongings in advance later that night, he suddenly finds himself attacked by a strange man with milky white skin, who identifies himself as James Marley, Scrooge's old mine foreman. He raves at Scrooge about how his selfish ways have doomed him and that three infernal beasts will hunt him down if he won't repent and change his ways. Scrooge initially dismisses it as a mere hallucination, but soon starts to have his doubts, and is soon forced to pick up the pace when a kaiju siren sounds at 1:00 AM - a 90-foot high lizard has emerged from the sea and is heading along the beach to Scrooge's street. As soldiers (both from the Navy and several militias) attempt to repel the kaiju, a Scrooge frozen with fear is caught in the radius of a large energy blast.

Scrooge awakens years earlier, somehow transported thirty years earlier. As he struggles to get his bearings, he witnesses himself dancing at the hall of his mentor Mr. Wesley Fezziwig with his fiance Belle and Marley, when a kaiju emerges from the mines and decimates the hall, killing Fezziwig, and sending Marley into the earth. Hours later, when Belle and Scrooge are taking inventory.

Scrooge wakes up back in the present, albeit the next day, with much of the town in ruins, including his own home. He finishes packing up his belongings as the carriage he called arrives, and heads to the bank to make his payment and potentially buy a new home in London while he's at it.

Scrooge wakes up at the front door of his now repaired house

Scrooge, now treating everyone with kindness, generosity, and compassion, celebrates Christmas with the Cratchits and Honeywells as the three kaiju finally leave and swim off into the ocean.

Cast

 * Peter Capaldi as Ebeneezer Scrooge
 * TBA as Bob Cratchit, a mine worker
 * TBA as Tim Cratchit
 * TBA as Fred Holywell
 * TBA as Mr. Wesley Fezziwig
 * TBA as Belle Andrews
 * TBA as James Marley - Scooge's old business partner and mine foreman, now a troglodytic creature.

Kaiju/Monsters Featured

 * The Brighton Behemoth - a massive sauropod kaiju with the ability to warp time that sends Scrooge to his past.
 * - a titanic deer who stores a sweet substance in its fur.
 * - a large mutated rat that lives within 's fur
 * - massive grasshoppers living within 's fur
 * - a massive stork-like bird that hunts down Scrooge in his future.
 * Giant Mole - a titanic cynodont (though identified as a mole in the film) that emerges from the mine in Scrooge's past.
 * Cancerius - a massive crab which is seen in the beginning

Differences between Book and Film

 * James Marley (renamed from Jacob Marley) is alive.

Reception
A Kaiju Christmas Carol received positive reviews, with