Spirited Movie Details:
| Based on | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy Musical |
| Release date | November 11, 2022 (United States) November 18, 2022 (Apple TV+) |
| Running time | 2hr 7min |
| Age rating | PG-13 |
| Starring | Will Ferrell Ryan Reynolds Octavia Spencer Sunita Mani Patrick Page Marlow Barkley Tracy Morgan |
| Directed by | Sean Anders |
| Written by | Dominic Lewis (score) Pasek and Paul (Songs) |
| Produced by | Sean Anders John Morris David Kaplan George Dewey Will Ferrell Jessica Elbaum |
| Cinematography by | Kramer Morgenthau |
| Edited by | Brad Wilhite |
| Music by | Dominic Lewis (score) Pasek and Paul (songs) |
| Production Company | Apple Studios Gloria Sanchez Productions Two Grown Men Maximum Effort |
| Distributor | Apple TV+ |
Spirited Movie Cast & Characters:
- Will Ferrell as Ebenezer Scrooge, the current Ghost of Christmas Present
- Ryan Reynolds as Clint Briggs
- Nico Tirozzi as young Clint Briggs
- Thomas P. Gillis as future Clint Briggs
- Octavia Spencer as Kimberly
- Sunita Mani as Bonnie, the Ghost of Christmas Past
- Patrick Page as Jacob Marley
- Marlow Barkley as Wren / Young Carrie
- Loren G. Woods as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
- Tracy Morgan as the voice of Yet to Come
- Aimee Carrero as Nora
- Joe Tippett as Owen Briggs
- Andrea Anders as Carrie Briggs
- Jen Tullock as Wendy Briggs
- Lily Sullivan as Margot / HR Ghost
- P. J. Byrne as Mr. Alteli
- Rose Byrne as Karen Blansky
- Maximilian Lee Piazza as Josh Hubbins
- Gavin Maddox Bergman as Oliver Twist
- Judi Dench as Herself
- Jimmy Fallon as himself
Storyline:
A musical version of the classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens. A miserly man who treats everyone around him with terrible selfishness finds himself on a fantastical adventure into the three phases of time: past, present, and future, to discover how he ended up so miserable and alone.
Spirited Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
| Budget | $75 million |
About Spirited Movie:
Spirited is an American Christmas musical comedy film directed by Sean Anders, and written and produced by Anders and John Morris. The film stars Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Patrick Page, Marlow Barkley, and Tracy Morgan.
It is a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol and a satire of the various adaptations since.
In 2019 Apple had won a competitive bidding war for the rights to the film. Also, it was reported that more than $60 million was spent on talent for the film, which was later increased to $75 million.
Principal photography for the film began on July 6, 2021 in Boston, which stood in for Manhattan. On October 18, 2021, Reynolds announced that filming had wrapped.
In the cemetery scene, most of the faces on the tombstones are AI-generated faces and pictures of the crew and family who worked on the shot at Mels VFX.
Spirited was released in select cinemas on November 11, 2022, before its streaming release on November 18, 2022, by Apple TV+. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its original songs and the performances and chemistry of Ferrell and Reynolds, but was criticized for its lack of improvement over previous adaptations of the novella.
Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds were each paid $20 million for being in this movie.
The film marks Ryan Reynolds’s musical debut, although he appeared in a musical sequence in The Voices (2014).
The fifth musical film collaboration between Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The others are La La Land (2016), The Greatest Showman (2018), Dear Evan Hansen (2021), and Lyle Lyle Crocodile (2022).
This is the third collaboration of Will Ferrell Sean Anders and John Morris, after the two Daddy’s Home movies.
According to a Samba TV research panel of 3.1 million smart television households who tuned in for at least one minute, Spirited drew in 228,500 viewers in its first two days.
