Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is arguably the most familiar festive story in the world. However, over 150 years after he put pen to paper, some of what would become the most familiar names in TV and cinema took his tale and told it their own way. “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol”, co-written in 1988 by future romcom king Richard Curtis – creator of films including “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Love Actually” – stars Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and “Harry Potter” star Robbie Coltrane.
Atkinson plays Ebenezer Blackadder, who, like Dickens’ Scrooge, is visited by a ghost, but ends up undergoing a rather different change of character after seeing that “bad guys have all the fun”. Laurie appears in two visions the ghost presents to Blackadder, first as a slow-witted upper-class prince – a far cry from the medical genius he’d later portray in “House” – then, with Fry, as an attendant to a futuristic queen. As for the ghost, that’s played by Coltrane, who seems to have kept hold of the costume for his role as Hagrid in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, which is also playing on board.
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