by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue

Scrooged,'' written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue and directed by Richard Donner, exemplifies the kind of lazily executed comedies Mr. Murray seems always to make.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens wrote the character Scrooge who goes from one extreme to the other in the timeless story A Christmas Carol.

Leslie Bricusse

Scrooge is the musical version of A Christmas Carol, with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, who has a few musicals to Leslie Bricusse's credit.

directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O' Donoghue

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O' Donoghue.

Bill Murray

- Bill Murray is filled with holiday humbuggery in 'Scrooged,' a modern take on 'A Christmas Carol.'

David Lean

Back in the late eighties, David Lean wrote Scrooged, the updated Christmas Carol built around Bill Murray as an ambitious, mean-spirited, workaholic TV-exec Scrooge, and none of the many other film and TV versions of the story, except perhaps for the one from the early fifties featuring Alastair Sim, deserves to be talked about in the same conversation.

and Michael O'Donoghue, whom Murray had worked with in the early days of Saturday Night Live

The script for Scrooged was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue, whom Murray had worked with in the early days of Saturday Night Live.

Carl Barks

Carl Barks wrote and drew Scrooge stories from 1947 until Donald's retirement in 1967.

Charles Dickens's sole executor, , , Charles Dickens's sole administrator, Charles Dickens's sole assignCharles Dickens's sole residuary legateeCharles Dickens's sole friend and sole mourner

Scrooge was Charles Dickens's sole executor, Charles Dickens's sole administrator, Charles Dickens's sole assign, Charles Dickens's sole residuary legatee, Charles Dickens's sole friend and sole mourner.

by old-school SNL writing alums Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue

Penned by old-school SNL writing alums Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue, Scrooged includes a murderer’s row of talent, including Bill Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Karen Allen, and Carol Kane.

Murray

Murray finally made Murray's comeback in 1988 with Scrooged, a darkly comedic version of Charles Dickens's

a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by.

screenwriter Mitch Glazer,

The movie has been written by screenwriter Mitch Glazer, famed for penning 1988 Bill Murray film Scrooged, who will also make screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directing debut on Passion Play.

Noel Langley

Noel Langley's most famous screenplay was The Wizard of Oz, but Noel Langley also wrote the scripts for Scrooge, Ivanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda.

O'Donoghue

O'Donoghue had small parts in the 1979 movie Manhattan (which poked fun at SNL), the 1987 movie Wall Street, and the 1988 movie O'Donoghue co-wrote, Scrooged.

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz published Scrooge and intellectual property rights in the British Medical Journal.

a flight of Dickens’ fevered imagination

Scrooge, after all, was a flight of Dickens’ fevered imagination.

the inspiration for Dr. Seuss’ iconic character

Scrooge was the inspiration for Dr. Seuss’ iconic character.

Cory Doctorow

Scroogled is a short story by Cory Doctorow that's especially timely.

one of the great Bill Murray films of all time that just doesn’t get enough love

Scrooged' is one of the great Bill Murray films of all time that just doesn’t get enough love.