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Rrose_Selavy Exquisite Elemental
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| Quote: | 'Wicker Man' sequel put on hold
Friday, April 4 2008, 12:27 BST
By Beth Hilton, Entertainment Reporter
Rex Features
A planned sequel to cult horror movie The Wicker Man has been shelved.
Original director Robin Hardy was writing and producing a follow-up under the title Cowboys For Christ, with Christopher Lee and Joan Collins attached to star.
It was scheduled to begin shooting later this month in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, the same location as the 1973 classic starring Edward Woodward.
However, Hollywood News reports that it has now been put on indefinite hold due to financing problems.
Dumfries and Galloway councillor Gill Dykes said the news was a blow to residents of the area, telling the BBC: “The company were about to start casting for extras, and around 90 crew and cast were booked into local accommodation for a four-week period.
"We will maintain contact with this interesting project and I can only hope we'll be top of their location list if the financial problems get resolved."
A remake of the original movie was released in 2006 starring Nicolas Cage. |
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a93066/wicker-man-sequel-put-on-hold.html |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-04-2008 23:23 Post subject: |
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Somewhere on the Board - though not, it seems on this thread - I wrote about the sacrificial plot of The Wicker Man as prefigured in the 1967 picture Eye of the Devil. I have never seen that film and came across references to it accidentally.
What I did see recently was Hammer's 1966 flick, The Plague of the Zombies.
This has many Wicker Man elements, though it lacks the magic. André Morell plays a distinguished scientist who travels to a remote region - Cornwall - to investigate a mysterious plague. The scientist soon gets the cooperation of a local uniformed bobby and the digging up of empty graves gives them a clue. Well the wicked local squire is at the heart of it with some heterodox beliefs and the whole thing ends in a conflagration, the collapsing pit-head just lacks the rising sun behind it . . .  |
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| Rrose_Selavy Exquisite Elemental
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| Posted: 05-04-2008 22:11 Post subject: |
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I mentioned before, on a discussion where members of production, crew and cast where reunited , they, including Lee spoke about a possible sequel which then was called "Mayday".
A better title than "Cowboys for Christ"
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 11-06-2010 14:46 Post subject: |
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Sing-along-a-Lee.
| Quote: | http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jun/11/sing-along-a-wicker-man
Why Sing-along-a-Wicker-Man hits all the wrong notes
The cult horror film's soundtrack is oddly delightful, but screenings where audiences can join in on the songs will just undermine its eerie menace
guardian.co.uk Danny Leigh Friday 11 June 2010
I can't think of many films apparently concerning an unsolved child murder that could also serve as the basis for a jaunty singalong. But there is The Wicker Man. Because in the 37 years that director Robin Hardy's delirious tale of pagan jiggery pokery in the Hebrides has been accumulating fans (among which I happily count myself), chief among the attractions has been its various musical numbers: toe-tappers like the cheerfully frenzied Maypole and folky mating call Willow's Song.
And now cinema-goers in south London have the chance to join in, as Brixton's Ritzy becomes the latest venue to host an evening of Summer Isle madness titled "Sing-along-a-Wicker-Man" (there have been and will be other dates around the country). There, fans will be given lyric sheets to relevant tunes, and (featuring, you assume, a significant number of homemade robes) a screening of the film will be transformed into a roaring knees-up.
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All together now:
Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel þu singes cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Pes:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-06-2010 17:39 Post subject: |
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Oh, I'm so there. 
I can make theatrical costumes too. Gonna have fuuuun. Who else is coming? I can run you up a frock!  |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-06-2010 21:32 Post subject: |
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What about the ladies?  |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-06-2010 22:42 Post subject: |
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Wicker Man ladies' costumes?
I can do those too! 
Get your order in early. |
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| Anome_ Faceless Man
Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2002 Total posts: 5377 Location: Left, and to the back. Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-06-2010 06:35 Post subject: |
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You mean you'll organise a body double for the ladies?
I don't think it will work quite as well as for an actual musical. Nor do I see them showing it at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
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| Posted: 12-06-2010 07:28 Post subject: |
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| It needs to be an interactive show. I recall reading about Point Break: Live - as stage production of the film, which incorporates a random audience members in simulation of Keanu's perfectly-pitched performance as a non-comprehending rookie. I seem to recall reading that the audience gets splashed with lots of salt water and blood. Great premise, but apparently the show wasn't up to much. I see an opening for The Wicker Man: Live |
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| Timble2 Imaginary person Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total posts: 7114 Location: Practically in Narnia Age: 58 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 12-06-2010 08:44 Post subject: |
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| And you can wrap it up with a nice barbeque! |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
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| Posted: 14-06-2010 09:05 Post subject: |
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Sing along a Wickerman played at the Brighton Fringe and I had tickets, unfortunately the silghtly vague organisers double booked the show so offered the organiser an alternative venue of the bar at the same venue  . Needless to say he declined.
Still it's a regular feature at the Duke of Yorks cinema in Brighton every Halloween.
One of these years I must find an 'obby 'oss costume to attend in. |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 880 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-06-2010 11:51 Post subject: |
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If any of you folks are in the Dundee area this event at the Dundee Contemporary Arts place may be of interest
| Quote: | Allan Brown
Inside the Wicker Man - with screening of unseen footage
7.30pm
FREE
Inside The Wicker Man is a treat for all cinemagoers, exhaustively researched and achieving a near-perfect balance between history, trivia and serious analysis.
Allan Brown describes the filming and distribution of the cult masterpiece as a 'textbook example of how things should never be done'. The omens were bad from the start, and proceeded to get much, much worse, with fake blossom on trees to simulate spring, actors chomping on ice-cubes to prevent their breath showing on film, and verbal and physical confrontations involving both cast and crew. The studio hated it and hardly bothered to distribute it, but today it finds favour with critics and fans alike, as a serious - if flawed - piece of cinema.
Allan Brown expertly guides readers through the film's convoluted history, explaining its enduring fascination and providing interviews with the key figures - many of whom still have an axe to grind, and some of whom still harbour hopes for a sequel
This event will be held at DCA and followed by a screening of the film - contact DCA for details 01382 909900.
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 880 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-06-2010 11:58 Post subject: |
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Oops forgot to mention it's on the 26th of June and add this bit:
| Quote: | The Wickerman Film screening
9.15pm - 10.55pm
at DCA
Dir: Robin Hardy
Far too well known by now to still be a cult movie, The Wicker Man must instead take its place as the most unlikely classic in British cinema.
The plot is Dixon of Dock Green meets Hammer Horror; a selection of blonde European women play Scots (Ingrid Pitt is also cast as a librarian?); Christopher Lee runs around in a dress; and the studio hacked it to pieces. Yet somehow, against the odds, The Wicker Man is utterly compelling, and remains so even after countless viewings.
It helps that Anthony Shaffer’s script has more than its share of memorable lines (of course they’re naked . . . it’s far too dangerous to run through fire with your clothes on) and that Robin Hardy directs it all with a keen eye for the camp and the absurd.
What really elevates the film however is the central performance of the late Edward Woodward as the god-fearing policeman lured to the island. Woodward is in virtually every scene and carries the film with him as he gives a complex portrait of a good, but not always likeable man, whose prim exterior hides a bottomless well of repressed anger and passion.
UK 1978 / 1h28m / Digital / 15
Please see the DCA website for details - www.dca.org.uk.
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| Ronnor Yeti Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Total posts: 81 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-06-2010 22:46 Post subject: |
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| Thanks for that, I'm in Dundee and will certainly go. |
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| DrPaulLee Yeti Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Total posts: 72 Gender: Unknown |
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