‘Wicker Man’ Re-Re-Made!

Hell in a handbag, can they just not leave that film alone! With all fairness, details that are emerging about this latest version aren’t all that bad at first read, though the damage that the Nicolas Cage version has done still bites deep.

So what’s being brought to the latest crack at Pagan pandemonium, crazy islanders and sacrifice by fire then?

First up, the original director Robin Hardy is both writing and directing which is kind of promising, and the great Christopher Lee is onboard which never harms. New to proceedings is Joan Collins who replaces Vanessa Redgrave in the part of Lady Delia Morrison.

Here’s the revised and modified plot…
“On a trip to Scotland to both perform at an arts festival and spread the word of Christ to the “heathens” of Glasgow, Beth is invited to visit a borderland estate and castle on a secluded island belonging to a Scottish Laird — but once there, she soon learns that her charming invitation to be crowned the “Queen Of The May” is part of a complex, horrific pagan rite, designed to test her Faith and ultimately destroy her.”

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