Collider’s exclusive trailer shows John Bradley as a modern-day Scrooge sentenced to save Christmas for a retirement home. The Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint trailer is out now.
By The Cinephile — CelebnMusic247
The holiday trailers are blowing in early, and this one has a genuinely good hook. Per Collider, which exclusively debuted the trailer, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint is a new British take on A Christmas Carol, released in theaters by Samuel Goldwyn Films on November 6.
The lead is John Bradley — Samwell Tarly to Game of Thrones fans, with Moonfall and Marry Me also on his résumé, per Collider. He plays Aubrey Flint, not exactly a Victorian miser but a solitary man who refuses to keep Christmas in his heart at any time of year. Per Collider’s synopsis, after a run-in over a snow globe leaves a belligerent codger’s mobility scooter damaged, Flint lands in trouble with the law and is sentenced to community service at a retirement home run by Ellen, played by Sophia Di Martino of Loki fame.
The supporting cast is a murderer’s row of British talent, per Collider: Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Richard E. Grant (Withnail and I), Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton), Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts UK), and Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as the voice of Charles Dickens himself.
The scheme that drives the film, per Collider: the home faces imminent closure, and Ellen’s plan is to have it designated a community theater space by staging a play with the residents — A Christmas Carol, naturally — with the deeply unwilling Flint in the director’s chair. Will he save Christmas, or is it all humbug? Audiences find out November 6.
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint Trailer: What We Know
What elevates this above the annual pile of tinsel is the casting logic: Bradley built his career playing warmth itself, so watching him play a man who has opted out of people entirely gives the redemption arc somewhere real to travel. A Scrooge who starts as Samwell Tarly in a bad mood is a Christmas movie we will actually queue for.
Sources: Collider
