The Internet Movie Database is reporting that the WICKER MAN remake to be directed by Neil (THE SHAPE OF THINGS) LaBute is moving forward with Nicolas Cage starring. Cage will play the Edward Woodward role of a policeman searching for a missing girl who winds up on an island inhabited by a pagan society—though the setting will be switched from Britain to America. LaBute outlined a further change in the story: “Nick’s character ends up [among] a very matriarchal society whose members are direct descendants of the Pilgrims. Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder would be two great choices. It’s a great film for actresses.” Of course, after Jolie grabbed the GIRL, INTERRUPTED Oscar Ryder was shooting for, they might not want to have those two on the same set, but in any case, no start date has been set yet for the Universal project."
This ranks just below the rumored CASABLANCA remake on the all-time "dumb ideas" list ......
tasha99
05-27-03, 04:45 PM
Descendants of the pilgrams? Somehow, I think it makes more sense to keep the movie set in Britain, but oh well. Not looking forward to this, even though I liked the original.
tasha
Pants
05-27-03, 05:32 PM
My favorite part is: Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder would be two great choices. Yeah, great choices...if you don't want me to see the movie. Excuse me but the original movie had hot chicks in it.
DeputyDave
05-27-03, 05:44 PM
Originally posted by Pants
My favorite part is: Yeah, great choices...if you don't want me to see the movie. Excuse me but the original movie had hot chicks in it. :lol:
Geofferson
05-27-03, 06:10 PM
Oh boy...
It'd be great if Nicolas Cage was going to play the Christopher Lee role and sport the same hair-do.
brizz
05-27-03, 07:27 PM
Jesus H Christ on a cracker....i'm getting so friggin sick of these remakes....what a horrible awful terrible idea. If I want to see Wicker Man, the original is the one and only choice....no one could touch Brit Eklund's performance! :drool:
(and yes i know she had a 'double' for the "best" part of her dance....doesn't matter ;) )
DarthMaul420
05-27-03, 07:56 PM
:(
Didn't Cage and Jolie learn anything from Gone in 60 Seconds?
Sessa17
05-27-03, 08:14 PM
Originally posted by brizz
Jesus H Christ on a cracker....i'm getting so friggin sick of these remakes....what a horrible awful terrible idea. If I want to see Wicker Man, the original is the one and only choice....no one could touch Brit Eklund's performance! :drool:
(and yes i know she had a 'double' for the "best" part of her dance....doesn't matter ;) )
Agreed. What I don't understand is WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY a remake of THIS movie. The movie has it's cult following, but not nearly enough to warrent a box office hit. This movie in no way has a mass appeal to it.
Josh-da-man
05-27-03, 09:33 PM
Sounds more like "Harvest Home" than "Wicker Man."
garmonbozia
05-28-03, 06:31 AM
Originally posted by Geofferson
Oh boy...
It'd be great if Nicolas Cage was going to play the Christopher Lee role and sport the same hair-do.
lol those were my exact thoughts too
ArchibaldTuttle
12-18-03, 09:41 PM
Are they still remaking this still? It's not on imdb anymore.
Just saw the original based on recommendations from this forum, wow, one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen, quite a bit of gratuitous nudity though, the end of the movie totally surprised me, excellent 9/10
On a side note:
I went to imdb.com to read some of the comments about it, the one that comes up by default is this guy that absolutely hated this movie, I proceeded to go through his other comments, its like he has the totally opposite taste in movies I do, it annoyed the hell out of me, everyone should have my opinions :)
Moogz
12-18-03, 10:35 PM
The Shape of Things.. The Mercy Seat.. Your Friends and Neighbors.. Nurse Betty...
Wicker Man?
Neil LaBute, what in the hell has happened to your sense of taste? Leave it like it is -- good, and full of Christopher Lee fun.
onebyone
12-18-03, 11:38 PM
Originally posted by Geofferson
Oh boy...
It'd be great if Nicolas Cage was going to play the Christopher Lee role and sport the same hair-do.
LOL, that is just what I was thinking too. That I would gladly pay money for, this I am not so sure about. I will probably see it though, due to a sick loyalty to Nic and Angelina that no number of bad movies can seem to break me from. I think I need medication.
RichC2
12-19-03, 01:37 AM
I'm all for this remake actually.
Throw in Christopher Lee and I'm golden.
I'd rather see an adult Hollywood remake of an interesting classic (granted it stays true to the material) than numerous amounts of crap that gets put out every week.
Oh, and Angelina Jolie and Wynona are quite hot. Wynona could pull off the sexy school teacher thing no problem, and Angelina could be my naked dancing temptress any day of the week.
F For Fake
12-19-03, 10:26 AM
Nicolas Cage, who I hate above all others, makes me want to vomit blood. The idea of him starring in a remake of one of my favorite films makes me want to then crap blood on my vomited blood.
And since it'll be a major Hollywood project, you can bet your bippy they'll change the ending.
I can all ready see Nic remembering that he has a gun in his back pocket and blasting his way out of the Wicker Man
Then again, if they bring back Ingrid Pitt, I may stop my whining. :drool:
QuiGonJosh
12-19-03, 11:16 AM
could we please get some real movie and not rehashes! Im sick and tired of it! Next thing you know they'll be remaking Rosemary's Baby with Britney Spears playing the mother and make it into a musical. I can already see the #1 hit from the soundtrack: "Satan stole ma baby!"
marty888
12-19-03, 11:42 AM
Originally posted by QuiGonJosh
could we please get some real movie and not rehashes! Im sick and tired of it! Next thing you know they'll be remaking Rosemary's Baby with Britney Spears playing the mother and make it into a musical. I can already see the #1 hit from the soundtrack: "Satan stole ma baby!"
Well, <b>CARRIE</b> has been remade, and also turned into a Broadway musical ...... anything is possible.
QuiGonJosh
12-19-03, 11:49 AM
Deep in the bowls of hell...
QuiGonJosh: Satan...why is it so cold?
Satan: God damn Carrie Musical...
RaMMaR
12-19-03, 12:09 PM
Originally posted by QuiGonJosh
Deep in the bowls of hell...
QuiGonJosh: Satan...why is it so cold?
Satan: God damn Carrie Musical...
:lol:rotfl
i guess it's time to cue this up on my unwatched DVDs pile....
Pants
12-19-03, 03:09 PM
This sounded stupid untill I heard Neil LeBute is involved.
You guys are really selling this short. He's a brilliant director and I doubt he would be approaching this project if he didn't have something to bring to the material that made it worth seeing again.
indiansbsa
12-19-03, 03:41 PM
I heard they were remaking Goodburger into Alien 5: Good Alien...sigh...
Josh-da-man
12-20-03, 10:09 AM
Speaking of "Carrie the Musical," I've always been curious about what they sang during the tampon throwing scene.
TomOpus
12-20-03, 10:38 AM
Originally posted by F For Fake
Nicolas Cage, who I hate above all others, makes me want to vomit blood. The idea of him starring in a remake of one of my favorite films makes me want to then crap blood on my vomited blood. So, how do you really feel about him? This is pretty vague :)
movielib
12-20-03, 11:09 AM
Originally posted by Pants
This sounded stupid untill I heard Neil LeBute is involved.
You guys are really selling this short. He's a brilliant director and I doubt he would be approaching this project if he didn't have something to bring to the material that made it worth seeing again.
I don't know if I'm ready to call LaBute brilliant yet. I thought Possession was a big, disappointing bore. But the edgier and more disturbing the material is, the better he is (e.g. In the Company of Men).
Since The Wicker Man is nothing if not edgy and disturbing, this may be perfect for him.
scott shelton
03-04-05, 12:59 PM
Nicolas Cage's Next is The Wicker Man
Source: Variety March 4, 2005
Nicolas Cage's next picture will be director Neil LaBute's remake of 1973 thriller The Wicker Man, with Millennium Films, Equity Pictures and Emmett/Furla Films producing, reports Variety.
LaBute adapted the screenplay, in which a sheriff investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote island off the coast of Maine. His hopes of unraveling the girl's disappearance become increasingly uncertain when he discovers evidence of pagan rituals.
The movie will begin production July 15 in Vancouver. Cage is currently shooting comic book adaptation Ghost Rider in Melbourne.
Geofferson
03-04-05, 01:06 PM
about time :up:
tecumseh1000
03-04-05, 02:30 PM
Speaking of "Carrie the Musical," I've always been curious about what they sang during the tampon throwing scene.
Just a guess, but Only Women Bleed???
freudguy
03-04-05, 03:59 PM
Nicholas Cage, huh? Well, at least it's not Ben Affleck.
The original was a cult hit only as far as I remember. I just don't see how this flick would appeal to mainstream audiences unless they stray far away from the original material.
Well, that poster really gets me excited about this :boring:
I think I'm set with my 2-disk DVD set of the original, thank you very much. Like most of you, this seems a completely pointless remake. Carrie the Musical might not be too bad. After all, Reefer Madness and Little Shop of Horrors may have sounded like stupid ideas until you saw them. Has anyone heard any other casting -- like who plays Christopher Lee's part?
Chad
05-31-05, 03:57 PM
:(
Didn't Cage and Jolie learn anything from Gone in 60 Seconds?
Yes, they learned American audiences will go see anything devoid of originality...therefore Hollywood keeps churning out the remakes. :horse:
What's next, an "I Spit on Your Grave" remake?? Yep, and it will probably be rated PG-13 for "excessive groping".
MrE
05-31-05, 04:11 PM
What's next? THE HILLS HAVE EYES.
brianluvdvd
05-31-05, 04:23 PM
Huh...Neil Labute is directing this??? That seems like a strange choice.
I am interested in seeing what they do to this since I am a very recent fan of the original film. Caught it on satellite and had no clue what it was about. Watched most of it with my mouth open (stunned at something so original yet I had never heard of it)and couldn't wait to see it again.
DVDHO
05-31-05, 05:26 PM
What's next a remake of The Bird's?Wait a minute there is one coming,Jesus H Christ WTF is hollywood thinking,churning out classic's into remake's that we can all make fun of,hollywood is about dead I think.
grim_tales
06-11-05, 04:11 AM
What the flip is that poster supposed to represent? :confused: It just looks wierd IMO.
Surely it should say "A Neil Labutte rip-off of a Robin Hardy film"? ;)
I hope the ending will be the same.
Giantrobo
06-11-05, 07:21 AM
I'll say it again. Hollywood has been re-making films since the early days. Ya'll act like it's a new thing.
grim_tales
06-11-05, 08:11 AM
True.. it used to remake sound versions of all the silent movies, The Merry Widow (1925/34) or Anna Kerenina (sp?) (1935) is a remake of Greta Garbo's Love. But thats only its own products. Did it keep remaking films from other countries then? :)
marty888
06-11-05, 08:49 AM
Set in Maine, huh? Trying to ride Stephen King coat tails?
A large part of the original's effectiveness was due to the fact that it was practically a folk musical - think about how much singing and dancing (albeit erotic) there was. The seemingly naive simplicity is what made the eventual conclusion so chilling.
(As for the Christopher Lee role - John Malkovich, Gary Oldman or Christopher Walken.)
mikewendt
06-12-05, 03:14 PM
This just doesn't grab me... I like the original, but the synopsis just sounds bland.
Myster X
06-13-05, 01:15 AM
Britt Elkand -other-:drool:
Geofferson
08-10-05, 10:20 AM
Update:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20965
Leelee Sobieski and Ellen Burstyn are joining Nicolas Cage in Neil LaBute's indie "The Wicker Man," produced by Millenium Films, Equity Pictures and Emmett/Furla Films. A remake of a 1973 British horror film, "Wicker Man" centers on a police officer (Cage) who is investigating the disappearance of a girl in a small cultlike community. Sobieski plays a barmaid who is Cage's confidant. Burstyn plays the head of the cult. The film is shooting in Vancouver.
Mondo Kane
08-10-05, 11:19 AM
No singing and no nekkid dancing. No sale :thmbsdwn:
paradicelost
08-10-05, 03:31 PM
What's next? THE HILLS HAVE EYES.
I don't know if this post was meant to be a joke but they are remaking Hills arn't they.
Geofferson
08-10-05, 03:51 PM
I don't know if this post was meant to be a joke but they are remaking Hills arn't they.
Yup.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454841/
Toka
08-10-05, 05:06 PM
I'll see this only if Cage is actually burned alive. Like, for real. On film. I'd pay to see that. Otherwise? Meh.
Geofferson
09-27-05, 09:37 AM
Some pics from the set:
http://blog.mikebrowne.com/index.php?itemid=3641
garmonbozia
09-28-05, 12:32 AM
just those pictures of the set have convinced me that this remake is indeed a terrible terrible idea. i just can't buy this story taking place in the United States... it just doesn't make sense to have a functioning pagan society in the US from a historical perspective... whereas, i think it was much more believable that there would still be one functioning on an isolated British island as in the original film.
terrible terrible idea.
DJLinus
10-27-05, 09:20 PM
I just now watched the original for the first time and quite liked it. (alas, the end was spoiled for me because I watched a "scariest horror movies" clip show last year). I'll likely see the remake as I'm a sucker for Nicolas Cage movies. Just hope they keep the same ending.
I do have a question about the original and didn't want to start a new thread:
I only saw the shorter cut of the film, so this may be explained in the extended cut. In the documentary on the DVD it showed a clip in which only Sgt. Howie (and no one else) received the letter with Rowan's picture. Were the pagans just taking a chance that he'd be a virgin or did they somehow know this beforehand? (I'm thinking the former - that Willow's nekkid song and dance was a test.) Was his virginity a "bonus" since he was already a man of the law that came to the island of his own free will?
brianluvdvd
10-28-05, 12:53 AM
DJLinus: I think that they knew. In the extended cut there is a brief scene with his fellow officers & they are talking about how he is a boy scout & doesn't get any action (of course i am paraphrasing). There is also a scene in the extended cut of him fervently delivering a prayer. It comes across to me that his reputation was known by many & I figure the pagans did their research. Just my opinion though as I don't remember it ever being stated that they knew.
DJLinus
10-28-05, 12:30 PM
Thanks. I'll have to hunt down the LE sometime (it's OOP, right?). My library only has the theatrical release.
deadlax
06-05-06, 08:48 PM
Trailer up in HD on apple.com
Looks like it's more of a horror film and less of a weird pagan sex cult film.
Suprmallet
06-05-06, 09:58 PM
To be honest, I'll see it just for Neil LaBute. I've loved every other film of his.
Dudikoff
06-06-06, 12:16 AM
So, has Nic Cage's Superman money ran out or what? I like the guy, but he's taking some seemingly crappy roles. Ghost Rider (looks mediocre), possible Oldboy remake, and now a Wicker Man remake. Next up, Peggy Sue Got Divorced.
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