Hardy, Lee to Begin WICKER MAN Remake

Wow, could I be any less interested in this?

This makes perfect sense, the original licked Donkey balls.... the Nic Cage remake ate Donkey turds.... so let's make another remake.... I usually try to be optimistic but C'MON!!!!

As a fan of the original, I'm looking forward to this. The people who did the Nicolas Cage remake clearly had no idea as to what made the original movie work. Judging from the points in the plot summary above, it looks like Hardy is on course to making a more faithful update.

Didn't they just do this???

#1 - ponyboy76 [Aug 7 2007, 4:41 am CDT]
Wow, could I be any less interested in this?

simple put either lindsay lohan or paris hilton in it.

Seriously? I mean, the original was ok; but, isn't one terrible remake enough?

The original was pretty good, IMO.

And this retelling isn't just a straight up remake. It could be bad, sure, but I'm mildly interested.

Course, I didn't waste my time with the Nic Cage remake - I had heard it really didn't follow the spirit of the original.

Give the man a break, he's only made like two films in the past 35 years (which includes the original).

I honestly haven't seen either Wicker movie, but perhaps Hardy saw the Cage one and thought his original film would be forgotten.

Hummm ... I'm of mixed feelings about this one.

Being a Pagan and degreed Wiccan, part of me thinks this will only glorify the subliminal fundi Christian message often popping up in movies these days.

This movie will likely to ... try again ... to trample the good name that Pagans today have been trying to make inroads in tv, movies and public relations.

That Christian message being "Where Christianity is right and might, Paganism takes flight" motto.

The heathen anti-hippie free love crazed mentality worked during the 60's and early 70's when the original "Wicker Man" took place along with other anti-hippie movies like "Easy Rider" premiered showing rednecks shotgunning Fonda and Hopper off cycles into the field.

But NOW Paganism/Wicca is a fast growing legal faith with no connection to murder, then or now, but Hollywood tries to continue to show this in sub plots in TV series like J.A.G. (The Witches of Gulfport).

You rarely see radical Christrians taken to task in TV series or movies showing them in a bad light. It's been hip to show adult Pagans in a bad light.

When Pagans are in a good light like "Harry Potter" Christians get their panties in a bunch crying out indoctrination into witchcraft of innocent children.

What I wonder is WHY are there still some brain dead producers out there that insist on tarnishing the good name of a current faith on behalf of the promotion of another. Can't they just co-exist please?

I can see Hardy twisting the idea around to make it a young Christian couple go off on vacation to some Middle Eastern country where they are captured by a radical Muslim cult and taken high up into the mountains where they are beheaded eventually to appease their twisted sense of a "god".

Or change the plot to have it a Christian woman who is a detective/military Captain in the Pentagon/Secret Service offical who marries an wealthy Arabic man. They have a little girl.

Then one day the man takes the child to the Middle East and never returns. The woman travels to the location and tracks her daughter down only to be ensnared into an ancient Arab order of Assassins which the husband is the leader and who used her to gain citizenship, in a prelude, as a way to funnel resources and assassins into the United States and she stands in the way of the future of the organization spreading out as well as the spreading of their radical faith within America.

He and the organization uses her daughter as a way to get her lured to the Middle East where she is powerless away from her country.

Eventually she is beheaded due to her faith coming to the forefront. Then we see other male assassins wooing and taking out key officials in the U.S. upper echelons in the same manner as well as convert Muslims in the U.S. to their purpose and create civil war from within.

Sure it is bashing another faith, but again it is timely and mirrors the hippie flood seen during the time of what inspired the original movie.

Or Hardy can simply take the plot away from Pagans and turn it towards Satanists or Black Mass followers. Which the remake would work in current context as well.

I ask ... why sully the name of Paganism like they once did with the original movie, back in 1973, when the movie was released?

It was largely seen as a propaganda movie against hippie culture but also against Pagans back then by Christians.

We still have nutbar Christians (Rev. Fred Phelps ring a bell) running around today that could use this movie as a promotion of their faith over Paganism/Wicca.

Do we really need more movies, even remade ones posing as Christian propaganda? Tell a story and leave the religion vs religion out of it UNLESS it is timely and plausible to bring a faith in that HAS done human sacrifice in the name of their faith. Radical Islam would fit that bill nicely in these times.

As for the Nicholas Cage version. I did see that movie a few months ago and I did like it. Much as I could due to my faith and separating it to enjoy the movie.

At least the story didn't focus on religion vs religion like this "COWBOYS FOR CHRIST" is attempting to do, but it stayed with the storyline of police officer goes to a remote location to investigate the diappearance of a young girl.

They kinda kept to the original plot but they did take liberties throughout the movie. For one, making Cage's character allergic to bee venom and crippling him, etc... oh and they left out the nude girl singing and dancing part next door to him. :-)

The general foundation plot remained but you can see where they contemporized it. It was okay, not blockbuster worthy though. :-)

The Nic Cage one was one of the great comedies of the year. Watch the last 1/3ish and try to contain your laughter. He kicks Leelee Sobieski in the face! Most of the movie sucks, but the final act really made it worth the price of admission, albeit for entirely the wrong reason.

Check out my profile as I'm pretty sure there's a link to a hilarious video montage of the best parts that I put up months ago.