I couldn’t believe it then, and I can’t believe it now. Thanks very much to Variety through Coming Soon for breaking me the most upsetting news since…well…since Braveheart I guess!
Here’s another Scottish based movie that’s about to get the Hollywood treatment and be totally ruined I’m sure. Not only are they throwing a big name actor who has had a run of bad luck of late at it, but they’re also boxing it up and shipping it over to the States. Grrr! Hackles are up. I’m building a wicker DVD player to buy this, put it in and burn it.
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.
Maine?! Cage?! NOOOOOOO! The original Wicker Man is a truly wonderful film with great performances from both Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee – see the shades of magician in him as he dances in a dress! It’s spooky as hell and the dread just steps up scene by scene.
Excellent movie about to be trashed. I hang my head once again. Why can’t they just leave good movies alone?
