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Wicker Man Remake

 
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:13 / 21.06.05
I'm guessing that with all the changes already announced, the soundtrack will also be radically different (The Wicker Man being one of my favourite films ever ln large part BECAUSE of its soundtrack)- pleeeeeeeease tell me they aren't gonna be parading up to the cliff listening to nu-metal. 'twould be too much for my old folkie head to bear.
 
 
matsya
04:56 / 01.07.05
The new ending will have Mr. Cage in the wickerman and his own flaming-skull heed will maek the man gae on fiyar, no?

m.
 
 
I, Libertine
16:24 / 01.07.05
Cage was great in Raising Arizona, even if I give most of the credit to the Coens.
 
 
netbanshee
17:48 / 01.07.05
He was good in that, Adaptation and I would say Leaving Las Vegas... but yeah, he's a self-righteous cunt overall. That said, I've only managed to watch Wicker Man once but at full attention some years back.

There's just no need to touch this film since there's nothing to be made from touching upon it's odd formula. It's worse than remaking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (hard for me to say) since at least you have Depp and Burton giving it a shot for whatever reason.
 
 
This Sunday
18:40 / 01.07.05
Am I alone in my complete disinterest in 'Leaving Las Vegas'? Not the best, not the worst, it's just there.
'Adaptation' and 'Raising Arizona' were both top notch performances, though, and I do think he puts a bit more into his roles than a lot of name actors who just walk on, do the same moves for every character, and collect their checks. He at least seems like he's trying.
And he made one of the best horrible movies: 'Con Air', wherein all manner of great actors take a silly premise and a fairly shit script, and chew the scenes for all they're worth. Overdone southern accents, bunch a fools dancing in a plane to a song made famous by... which isn't ironic, actually, but does qualify for sardony.
This, however, does seem to be working very very hard to miss the point entirely.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
17:06 / 02.07.05
//Pessimism//

I reckon they'll try and turn this into a "regular" horror movie. You know, an Evil/Good split: in the original, our "hero" comes across as naieve and intolerant to the point where the lines are blurred. It's all anbiguous. Whereas I would think that to sell this to a wide audience, our islanders will probably be turned into murdering psychopaths.

The Wicker Man just isn't a monster film. It just isn't. You could call it a horror film, but really that definition's too narrow. It'll be "genre"-d to fit trashy cineplex ideals.

Which is pretty much a retread opf what everyone else has said, but I feel it bears repeating.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:14 / 02.07.05
 
 
Hieronymus
23:57 / 27.01.06
*bump* What were those articles again, al?
 
 
invisible_al
10:58 / 28.01.06
It was an article in the Scotsman.

Best quote is from Christopher Lee about what he regards as his best role,

"What do I think of it being played by a woman, when it was played by a man in 1972, as part of a Scottish pagan community, and now it's played by a woman with the same name? What do I think of it? Nothing. There's nothing to say."

I particularly recoil from the suggestion that it's going to involve 'Killer Bees'. Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ.

But it does contain the hopeful news that the original director and Lee are hoping to make a film in a similar vein about two young American evangelicals comming across some Paganism in the border ridings. That sounds like it could be as much a feel good movie as the original one was.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:13 / 28.01.06
I'm willing to put money on the fact that the Wicker Man will be the exception that proves the rule "there is nothing that cannot be improved by the addition of killer bees".
 
 
Tom Paine's Bones
20:10 / 28.01.06
But surely murderous pagans date, whereas killer bees are universal.
 
 
sleazenation
09:18 / 23.02.06
For Barbelithers in the UK the DVD of the original Wickerman comes free with The Guardian this weekend. Even if you already own it, it's probably still worth picking this up.
 
 
Spaniel
12:55 / 23.02.06
Very very good.

The Guardian and not the Observer, then?
 
 
sleazenation
13:04 / 23.02.06
I believe it is in the Saturday Guardian, but I could be wrong...
 
 
Feverfew
20:14 / 26.02.06
Just to say thanks to Sleaze for the tip, as, shockingly, I don't own and haven't seen this film yet.

But now, thanks to the Guardian, I can!
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
14:48 / 27.02.06
I hear they are scraping the killer bees, and instead making it take place on a plane, a plane full of pagans and snakes.
 
 
DaveBCooper
11:40 / 16.03.06
BUMPing this thread as I don’t know where else to put this, but:

I have a spare copy of the free Guardian DVD of the original film. If you’d like it, PM me your address, and I’ll put it in the post to you in the next day or so.

Only got one, so first ask, first get.
 
 
DaveBCooper
13:41 / 16.03.06
^This DVD has now found a new home^
 
 
rabideyemovement
14:31 / 16.03.06
I am willing to bet that a Nicholas Cage version would likely be unfettered by the musical interludes of the original.
I'll be pissed if they remake my favorite movie and leave out the naked landlord's daughter's wall-pounding dance!
 
 
Bear
14:37 / 06.06.06
Trailer for the new version below - I haven't seen the orginal but feel like I have. This doesn't look much like it.

Wicker
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
16:00 / 06.06.06
My coworker just had to ask me why I looked so ill, I had to explain that I had just thrown up in my mouth a little.

More generic horror, thanks Hollywood, that is exactly what we need.
 
 
Peach Pie
17:50 / 06.06.06

I particularly recoil from the suggestion that it's going to involve 'Killer Bees'. Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ.


This is funny on so many levels.
 
 
PatrickMM
21:14 / 06.06.06
It's a shame that this will now have to join From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as something that I have to reccomend with the caveat, the original's actually good. The Wicker Man itself looked pretty cool, but other than that, there's nothing of note here. The story is so tied into the post 60s sexual revolution and counterculture, it seems pointless to play it as just straight up horror. I wouldn't really consider the original a horror film, the end is certainly disturbing and scary, but it doesn't have the narrative structure or scare moments of a typical horror movie.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
21:24 / 06.06.06
I'm not saying this is going to be amazing, but everyone should keep in mind that the trailer of a film and the film itself sometimes bear only the slightest of similarities. I'm sure someone could easily slap together a trailer of the original film that made it look like standard horror slush, or anything you like. Example.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:25 / 07.06.06
The thing about The Wicker Man, though, is that it was the result of such a gloriously messy process. It's like Apocalypse Now in that respect. It can't be recreated by a bunch of guys who have decided how it will work or when it'll be ready.

The other thing about The Wicker Man, of course, is that it didn't have Nicholas Cage in it.

Or bees, for that matter.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
09:46 / 07.06.06
You know what had Nicholas Cage in it? Adaptation.
You know what had bees in it? Rushmore!
The Wicker Man: It's Adaptation meets Rushmore...
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
12:49 / 07.06.06
Does it have Christopher Lee in it? In my head, this film assembles the whole surviving cast of the Wicker Man and sends Nicholas Cage's annoying cop to Summerisle to investigate a missing person. Corn rig and barley rig-related mayhem ensues. An ageing landlord's daughter shakes her arse. Cage is burned alive to yeild a good crop of apples.
 
 
Peach Pie
13:05 / 07.06.06


 
 
Ticker
00:59 / 15.06.06
I saw the trailer the other day. YEESH!
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
I do believe N. Cage must die for his crimes.
 
 
PyD
07:17 / 15.06.06
SPOILERS FOR ORIGINAL













Come on its not like Hollywood was ever going to remake a film that ambiguously treated the positive and negative aspects of a pagan lifestyle and showed the virgin, vehemently Christian cop to be the architect of his own downfall through his own bloody minded intolerence. Though the rhetoric of the crazy fringe right and the scale of the protesting would be awesome.

Some remakes honestly have cultural adaptation to offer a new generation. The Wicker Man pretty much said everything it needed to first time round. Given its cult status the 'remake' factor isn't going to make it any more box-office jsut annoy fans who won't bother and it'll get just the same audience as these generic crap horrors ever get, and Nicholas Cage fans.
Kind of a cross section of the same people who will see Ghost Rider.
More evidence for Nicholas Cage needing to be banned from starring in things based on things he likes.
Remember when he was going to be Superman? - oh how we did laugh.
(Due to my medication regieme I can no longer distinguish between laughign and sobbing)
 
 
The Strobe
19:53 / 18.08.06
Good to know that a film that should touch at the deep, primeval horror lurking in the depths of man's heart and beliefs... has been rated a family-friendly 12A by the BBFC. (For those of you in the US, that's a PG-13 equivalent).

I know there's a trend for getting classifications that guarantee you a bigger audience.. but this is the Wicker Fucking Man, for god's sake!
 
 
Triplets
10:10 / 26.08.06
The killer bees were good in the original.
 
 
Ganesh
10:16 / 26.08.06
More evidence for Nicholas Cage needing to be banned

That's pretty much all that's needed.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
21:01 / 06.09.06
I saw it this weekend.

There was a girl named Rowan, and there was a big wicker type guy. And the island was called Summerisle.

Other than that...? Nothing in common.

I watched it with a friend that had no knowledge of the original, or any knowledge of the end.

There's a scene in the new version that has Nic Cage in danger; he then wakes up. It was a dream.

During the burning scene, my friend apparently kept expecting Cage to just wake up again. So a scene that should have been terrifying was kind of boring for him.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
11:35 / 07.09.06
Gosh, I was a dick upthread. Ah well...
 
  

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