Date 17/09/2015 - News People
Sources confirm to Variety, Universal Pictures has purchased the script ?Humbug? from writers Todd R Jones and Earl Richey Jones with Ice Cube attached to star and Tim Story to direct.
The script is a contemporary retelling of Charles Dickens? classic story of a wealthy real estate mogul who is shown a path to redemption by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
The film marks another collaboration between Cube and Story that began with the box office hit ?Barbershop,? which spawned two two sequels, the third recently wrapped production with Malcolm Lee at the helm. The two also worked on the ?Ride Along? series for Universal with the sequel bowing this January with Story directing and Cube and Kevin Hart co-starring.
