The Wickerman Remake

[Pripyat]

Just witnessed a bus go by the window with an add for, "what......"!

Looks like an American director, has got it into his head that
the world needs a remake of the seminal Scottish horror.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thewickerman/trailer1/

Feel sorry for Nick Cage. Suppose he's only doing it for the money.

[allyharp]

Yeah I saw the trailer in the cinema. I liked the original but this just will not work.

[JayKay]

I could be wrong, but is it a woman playing the part of the police officer and Nicholas Cage as Lord Summerisle?

[Sir Roger DeLodgerley]

No, the Lord Summerisle character is played by a woman. Don't know who though.

[Pripyat]

I still think the directors artistic license has just gone too far. I've got
the feeling that the changes in character names, are just a little too
much of a coincidence.

In the original Edward Woodward plays Sergeant Neil Howie
and Britt Ekland plays Willow MacGregor.

In the remake Nick Cage's character's name is Edward, and Willows
second name is Woodward.

Christopher Lee's character has had a sex change. Now we have
Lady Summerisle, played by Ellen Burstyn (Who????)

Perhaps I'm just getting old and been living in the GFT for too
long, but I suspect that the screenplay, will also have been dumbed down.

[red_kola]

hristopher Lee's character has had a sex change. Now we have
Lady Summerisle, played by Ellen Burstyn (Who????)

She must be good !

[Pripyat]

hristopher Lee's character has had a sex change. Now we have
Lady Summerisle, played by Ellen Burstyn (Who????)

She must be good !

Yeah red_kola she must be good if she can get a performance
in, in under 12 seconds.

Anyhow, the nomination selection has become a fallacy within
the industry.

I've just never heard of the actress, she's probably very tallented,
but their only as good as the material their given. I'll take my hat
off to the fact she is in her seventies and a good day for the
representation of the maturer actors and actresses.

[motman]

In the original Edward Woodward plays Sergeant Neil Howie
and Britt Ekland plays Willow MacGregor.

Britt Ekland.
Ooh the memory of that scene
Ya swine ye, Pripyat, noo I'll have to take a cold shower.

[gap74]

Ellen Burstyn was quite foxy in her day, if you've never seen Peter Bogdanovich's melancholic The Last Picture Show or Scorsese's rarely seen Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, then check them out!

As for the remake of Wicker Man, I'm also struggling to think why, especially if it's a straight film without songs!

The director was previously responsible for some fairly disturbing stuff, including a film about two guys who get sick of women taking advantage of them, so set out to seduce and abandon a deaf girl!

The final straw came the other day when I saw on the BBFC website that the remake has been rated 12A! What, no naked slapping up against the hotel room wall...?

[Pripyat]

As for the remake of Wicker Man, I'm also struggling to think why, especially if it's a straight film without songs!

The final straw came the other day when I saw on the BBFC website that the remake has been rated 12A! What, no naked slapping up against the hotel room wall...?

Yes gap74, it won't be the same without Magnet playing. The setting
with the band playing in the Green Man, are a little nostaligic, since
have actually seen some small Scottish folk bands do a rendition.

12A certification, arghhhhhh!!! The Omen was 15. As far as the naked
slapping goes, the nudity within the original is actually very tasteful
and is not in any way as salacious as what is peddled today.

[Sir Roger DeLodgerley]

Perhaps if it had really been Brett's arse in the original an 18 certificate would have been issued?

[gap74]

Actually, her arse double was seemingly a Glasgow stripper, think about that next time you walk past an innocent looking 60-year old woman in Argyle St, she may well walk among us every day...!

[chipsteak]

In an attempt to 'update it' the clash-of-belief ideas in the original seem to have been replaced by a load of old rubbish about killer bees! This in a time when many would say that clash-of-beliefs is more relevent than it was in 1973.

Anyways, my various mumblings on the subject of the original, including new reports from each of its filming locations, can be read here for anyone who is interested...

http://www.wicker-man.com

[scaryman2u]

Hey chipsteak can i post on that site...? I had a caravan down there and would like to comment

[govanboay]

nice site chipsteak, gave it a menshy on the British Horror Films forum that I post on.


paul.