Rapper Ice Cube has been cast as Scrooge in Universal Christmas movie Humbug, according to Deadline Hollywood.
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Humbug is a contemporary retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in which a miserly old man is taught to be a better person by three ghosts.
Tim Story (Ride Along) is attached to the project as director, from a script by Todd R Jones and Earl Richey Jones (Rio).
Story and Ice Cube have regularly worked together, on both the Ride Along series and the Barbershop franchise.
Ride Along 2, starring Cube and Kevin Hart, is set for release in the UK on 22nd January 2016.
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Originally published September 18, 2015. Updated November 29, 2022.
