CapriUni wrote:

Last year, I sat down at my computer and found an etext of Dicken's Christmas Carol. I enjoyed it much more than any of the various film versions out there. I half-wished there was a daring film maker out there who would retell it in the spirit of social and political protest that Dickens originally wrote it, and who would use modern effects technology to make the spirits appear as Dickens described them.

oddly enough, there was a Rod Serling take on Christmas Carol updated to the Nuclear Future, aired in the 60's. Saw it once as a young kid and it scared the bejesus outta me. I've looked into it and though it is memorable, it is unobtainable.