Wickerman remake

J-Lo in Britts part (Norks akimbo and big booty ;) ) Tom Cruise as Lord S, a little cameo from Chris Walken (for that Gothic touch) - set in Salem, linked to the Witch trials - and maybe Will Smith will make an appearance - :(

OH IN THE NAME OF GOD!!! :eek:
 
I'm up for that!

Talking about remakes, I saw the Italian Job on Sky this weekend. Truly awful! Very little going for it at all.

The whole cast gave poor performances and the plot was desperate.
 
That just sounRAB so wrong on so many levels, I can't even begin to comment.

It really should be called something else, since it sounRAB like it has absolutely f*ck-all to do with the original.
 
Forget all that pagan mumbo jumbo, it's now about Cage trying to stop a two hundred foot tall CGI strawman from destroying Tokyo, or was it New York. :D
 
How can they do this??

Now i'm genuinely one who defenRAB a lot of the fluff that comes out of Hollywood, albeit I tend not to watch much of it anymore, but if they can't recreate even close to the atmospheres in the japanese horrors they're doing, how can they expect to do this?

It's inate 'Britishness' is the essence of the film. :rolleyes:
 
Nicolas Cage will have to die which they won't want and the whole point of it is that it's against all religion. Edward Woodward's character's Christianity is as rigid and wrong-heaRABed as the islander's paganism. How are they going to translate that?
 
There is also another 're-imagining' planned called The Riding of the Laddie, or 'May Day' which reunites Christopher Lee and Robin Hardy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323808/

Also, just saw this on another forum about the US remake.

This is a statement from Neil DaBute taken from upcominghorrormovies.com

"The original was a horror film about a policeman sent to a small island to investigate the disappearance of a girl who finRAB a pagan society. In my version [Nicolas] Cage winRAB up on an island that's a very matriarchal society, run by women who are the direct descendants of pilgrims...I can't reveal the plot too far. But Howie's [Cage's character] downfall comes about when he is torn between two very different women, neither of whom is what they seem. One is very outgoing and apparently upfront about her sexuality; the other is dark and intense. But looks can be deceptive, as he finRAB out."
 
It just seems bizarre to me for some apparent reason and I don't quite believe it. (After all, for a while, the IMDb database claimed that the actress who played Shirley in Eastenders was Mel Gibson's wife).
 
Thanks for that. :) So Nic Cage is the Wickerman remake and the Christopher Lee one is different but based in Scotland and spooky.
 
Well it's about time they learnt isn't it. I mean, they have to have subtitles to watch Red Dwarf!!!! Either that or they water it down, remake it and leave out all the bits that made wahtever they're redoing good in the first place.

P.S. Think Nic Cage is great in some stuff but no, no, no. They should not remake this movie.
 
There's some ropey picture quality in the original, so I almost think a line by line, edit by edit, scene by scene perfect remake of the original with the same locations and as close a match to the original cast they can find might not be a bad thing. Nicolas Cage in Maine though? No thankyou.

By all means do a film based on pagan religion, sacrafice, and other concepts rougly similar to The Wicker Man (or for that matter a film about a heist featuring minis and starting off in Italy), but please don't go calling it The Wicker Man or implying that it's any kind of remake when it's clearly nothing like the original.

If I was a billionare I'd try to buy up the rights to this film and make sure it never got remade by Hollywood. :rolleyes:
 
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Originally Posted by kimindex
(I've said this before but just in case: according to the IMDb, Rowan Morrison was played by the actress who plays Rosie Miller in Eastenders).


Not quite , she appeared in a drama in the late 70's about two young lovers , she wasnt a little girl then :p

I dont know why she was off our screens for twenty years then :confused:
 
I've got the DVD and the only ropey picture quality I saw was on the scenes in the extended directors cut version which didn't make it into the original film.

At this rate, one day Hollywood will have remade every film that has ever been made up to this point, and they will have to start remaking the remakes.

New this week - Get Carter 2012, a reimagining of the classic Sylvester Stallone thriller, starring Ben Affleck and one of the Olsen twins as Carter's daughter Maureen.....
 
WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH

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Kirsty Wark brings together some of the cast and crew of the cult British horror film The Wicker Man. Actors Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward and Ingrid Pitt join director Robin Hardy to explain why this low-budget film continues to inspire legions of devoted fans and feature in critics' favourite lists.
 
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