FX’s A Christmas Carol

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Dean Baker is a partner at Hardy Son &amp; Baker the production company he founded with Tom Hardy in 2012. HSB has a TV first look deal with FX.Baker was most recently an executive producer on the hit TV series Taboo and he is currently an executive producer on A Christmas Carol.Baker spent 15 years working in advertising before HSB, producing many award winning TV commercials and founding TV content production entities within operating companies of WPP. Along with his partner Tom Hardy, Baker is set to produce Unreasonable Behaviour and Once A Pilgrim with Working Title Films, Warlord with Carnival and Universal, Shackleton with David Heyman and Studio Canal. They are also working with writer/director Scott Cooper on a feature film the duo will produce.

On Christmas Eve we meet "Ebenezer Scrooge," portrayed by Guy Pearce. A skinflint, he’s isolated, begrudging and resentful of the world. He is aloof and miserable, always testing humanity to find the worst in people and to ratify his own confirmation bias. All the friendships he had in the world he has lost. The hope and optimism he had as a child have been shattered by a brutal upbringing. Can the advent of his business partner Marley and the arrival of the three ghosts reinvigorate the spirit, joy and hope of a once-lost boy?

The "Ghost of Christmas Past," portrayed by Andy Serkis, is jaded. He’s been sent to make lost souls repent before, why should "Scrooge" be any different? He prods and pokes where it hurts, transforming himself into those known to his charge, finding a place of pain, shame and self-knowledge. But can he get Scrooge to recognize himself, and repent?

"Jacob Marley," portrayed by Stephen Graham, lies in his coffin and regrets. He regrets his miserliness, the risks he took, the penny-pinching that resulted in his factories being run down, his workforce pushed to the brink, ensuring accidents and calamities, lives lost, communities crushed. His guilt haunts him. He wishes to repent. He is sent on a journey of the soul – but to guarantee the safety of his – he must also save "Scrooge’s."

"Lottie," portrayed by Charlotte Riley, was "Scrooge’s" elder sister. Was, because she is dead. Or was dead, because now she has sent herself back to the world of the living to try her turn at saving Scrooge’s hardened soul. With fire and love and anger in her heart she will force Scrooge to see difficult truths.

"Bob Cratchit," portrayed by Joe Alwyn, works constantly for "Scrooge" on little pay and even less recognition. His loyalty is not rewarded, and yet he persists at Scrooge’s, wryly returning banter with his boss and letting things lie, until the stakes get much, much higher. And he won’t take any more.

"Mary Cratchit," portrayed by Vinette Robinson, is a resilient and hardworking woman, diligent, thoughtful, careful. Vengeful. She loves her husband and her children and would do anything for them. Anything.

A menacing figure, the "Ghost of Christmas Future," portrayed by Jason Flemyng, is tall, hooded and silent. His mouth is stitched tightly together. He cannot change the future, he can only show what may come to pass. The night is dark and foreboding and he holds the key to "Scrooge’s" nightmares.

The physical embodiment of "Scrooge’s" childhood dreams, "Ali Baba," portrayed by Kayvan Novak, emerges as one of Scrooge’s oldest friends and comforting escape from the pages of his earliest favorite book, One Thousand and One Nights. He has been with Scrooge through dark times and will show them to him again.

"Belinda Cratchit," portrayed by Tiarna Williams, is feisty and loving. She’s always ready with a quip and retort and is active and fast of foot when needs be.

The well-loved youngest of the Cratchit children, "Tim Cratchit’s" dreams are bigger than the stars, and he’s encouraged by his family to seek them out. Undaunted by the world, Tim, portrayed by Lenny Rush, is determined to try everything, even when it puts everything at risk.

"Scrooge" has been estranged from his father since he was a child, but his domineering and brutal presence still haunts him. Tyrannical, single-minded and cruel, "Franklin," portrayed by Johnny Harris, spent more care tending his failing businesses than his children, except to remind them of their reliance on him. His determination that Scrooge realize the cold heartlessness of the world has been a lesson Scrooge never let go of.

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Baker is a partner at Hardy, Son & Baker the production company he founded with Tom Hardy in 2012.

Dean Baker | Executive Producer | A Christmas Carol on FX

Dean Baker

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