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英国男星丹·史蒂文斯（Dan Stevens）将在新片《发明圣诞节的人》（The Man Who Invented Christmas）中饰演英国大作家查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）。 该片根据Les Standiford同名图书改编，编剧是电视剧《丛林中的莫扎特》（Mozart in the Jungle）的苏珊·科因（Susan Coyne）。 《发明圣诞节的人》以狄更斯1843年创作小说《圣诞颂歌》（A Christmas Carol）的六周经历为主要内容，克里斯托弗·普拉默（Christopher Plummer）将饰演小说男主角“Scrooge”的原型，而乔纳森·普莱斯（Jonathan Pryce）将饰演狄更斯的父亲。。Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。