The Wicker Man returns in a different guise

7 June 2006 Rob Buckley Film 4 Comments

There’s a trailer available now for the remake of The Wicker Man. Yes, you read right. They’ve remade The Wicker Man. Did we really need a remake? I don’t think so, but others may disagree.

I have to say though, it doesn’t look a huge amount like the original, particularly since it stars Nicolas Cage and appears to be all about Satan-worshippers rather than pagans. So it’s more like a “re-imagining” in the parlance of Hollywood and not for the better. Oh well. I have little faith it’ll be any good, and what faith I have comes from the fact Neil LaBute is directing it. Let the forces of nature and a giant maypole prove me wrong.

Anyone reckon that Nick Cage is going to be burnt alive in a huge wicker effigy at the end, though? Thought not.

PS Nice references to Edward Woodward in the trailer. That, at least, was a nice touch.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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