Gary Oldman will be taking on three roles in "A Christmas Carol"

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Gary Oldman, who did a fantastic job of playing Sirius, will be playing THREE roles in an upcoming Robert Zemeckis production of A Christmas Carol. Here’s what he had to say:

“I saw the designs, and the realizations of London and the characters. The design of it, and the look of it, is beautiful. It’s quite stunning. It should be quite magical.”…

And believe it or not, he’s going to be taking on the character of Tiny Tim – I’m interested in seeing the film purely for how they’re going to pull THAT off. Here’s what Gary had to say:

“They put you in a trench. They’re on platforms that they wheel in and wheel out. So you’ve got all this crew moving floor around. And when I’m walking on my crutches, the actors are much higher than me, so the eyelines work. And later they will animate little legs on me,” Oldman said. “It would be so expensive to do it [live action]. And you can do things with the ghosts that you couldn’t do in the more conventional way. Much like [Batman Begins and The Dark Knight], [Zemeckis] has sort of reinvented The Christmas Carol. It’s probably closer to how Dickens saw it.” – source