Rutger Hauer is still in the castlist of the new mini series the A Christmas Carol, but he didn’t have to see it to be. Actor Guy Pearce is the man, of Dutch actress Carice Van Houten, said that the Dutch actor is too ill to go to the recording set to come out. Pearce plays the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. The three-part series, a dark tale from the story by Charles Dickens about the mean-spirited miser, who, the night before christmas is visited by three ghosts.