<P> The Man Who Invented Christmas is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Bharat Nalluri and written by Susan Coyne based on the book of the same name by Les Standiford . It stars Dan Stevens , Christopher Plummer , and Jonathan Pryce . The plot follows Charles Dickens ( Stevens ) at the time when he wrote A Christmas Carol , and how Dickens 's fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge ( Plummer ) was influenced by his real - life father , John Dickens ( Pryce ) . </P>
<P> The Man Who Invented Christmas is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Bharat Nalluri and written by Susan Coyne based on the book of the same name by Les Standiford . It stars Dan Stevens , Christopher Plummer , and Jonathan Pryce . The plot follows Charles Dickens ( Stevens ) at the time when he wrote A Christmas Carol , and how Dickens 's fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge ( Plummer ) was influenced by his real - life father , John Dickens ( Pryce ) . </P>
who plays dickens in the man who invented christmas
who plays dickens in the man who invented christmas
Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens