Forrest Gump, Marty McFly & Doc Brown in A Christmas Carol?

The image above is a pre-production still from A Christmas Carol and it gives us a nice idea of what the flick will eventually look like when it hits theatres in 2009. Now to the gossip, and there's some very interesting tidbits come out about the flick today... Robert Zemeckis is on a mission to re-unite with the actors who helped make his movies so successful in the past. We already know that Zemeckis has cast Bob Hoskins from Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the role of Mr. Fezziwig in his motion capture festive adaptation of A Christmas Carol after the actor spilled the beans a couple of weeks back. Now comes word from Jim Hill Media that Zemeckis is going Back to the Future, and has written roles in his script not only for Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) but for Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) as well. It doesn't stop there either. Zemeckis has also written a role for Tom Hanks, the actor he used to probably his most memorable performance in Forrest Gump and also Cast Away and of course the actor who Zemeckis first experimented the CGI motion capture technique with in The Polar Express. These roles aren't small cameo's either. Michael J. Fox would be playing Tiny Tim, Christopher Lloyd would be Marley's Ghost and Tom Hanks would be Bob Cratchit. Jim Hill says not everyone is so happy about all this 'proposed casting' (which for Lloyd, Fox & Hanks is nothing more than a desired wish list at the moment). Studio execs at Disney are concerned over Michael J. Fox's health and question whether he would be able to stand the rigours of working on a big movie, which is something he hasn't done for a long time now. Questions have also been raised over star Jim Carrey (who is playing not only Ebenezer Scrooge, but the ghosts of the past, present and future) who has dropped out of more projects than Lindsay Lohan over the past couple of years and has been attached with the 'difficult to work with' label recently. Another issue of course is the cost involved in bringing all these big name actors on board. Jim Carrey would probably have cost a bomb, and Tom Hanks won't come cheap. The money he is set to make on reprising his role as Robert Langdon in Angels and Demons has shown that.