Wickerman Remake?

humanji

It's probably old news to most, but I just found out that They're remake The Wickerman and setting it in the US. Here's the link:
IMDB - Wickerman
Nicholas Cage is plating the sheriff. I honestly don't know why they bother. Or even why I bother complaining. It'll make money no matter what.

mike65

In the 80s and 90s Hollywood was happy to remake French films, it seems the 21st century is all about trashing Brit clasics.

Mike.

Talliesin

The Wickerman, set today, in the US.

Can't wait to see the villagers call the ACLU and the Witches' Anti-Defamation League, complain about the copper's obvious bias and demand someone else do the investigation.

Nevyn

Oh well good luck to them, they will have the pagan anti deflamatory networkPAN watching them and various other groups.

Things are a lot different now then when the orginal was made.

Rhyme

Bah... i dont see how they can top Christopher Lee's creepiness and Britt Eklund's naked dance

Hugh Hefner

And suddenly suicide seems understandable...

mycroft

Thaed wrote:

Oh well good luck to them, they will have the pagan anti deflamatory networkPAN watching them and various other groups.

Things are a lot different now then when the orginal was made.

What is PAN like MMN only with more henna tattoos and make-up?

wicca friendly buffy and sabrina the teenage witch doesn't float your boat?

It boggles the mind, we can sneer at Christians picketing the Last temptation of christ, but heaven help us if we protray pagans as anything other than wise spiritually gifted poetic souls.

mike65 wrote:

In the 80s and 90s Hollywood was happy to remake French films, it seems the 21st century is all about trashing Brit clasics.

Actually it was remade (or ripped off) by the british in the very late 90s in an dreadful version set in Wales with a reporter playing the investigator role.

CuLT

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Bush brought back burning suspected witches at the stake.

free barbeque! \o/

Rhyme

CuLT wrote:

free barbeque! \o/

Mmmm heretic fresh

Nevyn

Every religion has it's crackpots,
but when a film shows/slanders that all members of a religion or spiritual path
are crackpots well then; that is when they will get into trouble.

Basq

Poster for it:

CuLT

basquille wrote:

Poster for it:

boo with anti-hotlinking.

mycroft

Thaed wrote:

Every religion has it's crackpots,

You mean like PAN?

from the PAN website wrote:

If the Cultural Supremacists could smash that eternal hope in us, and thereby display the failure of magical and philosophical alternatives, the forces of ignorance would have achieved a very great victory indeed. I began to realise that this was not simply a form of censorship, it was a method of modifying awareness and perspective through fears which had been imprinted deep down in our psyches during childhood by automatic mechanisms which had been reinforced at every level in a culture whose ruling elite had phased out all alternative options and spiritual freedoms. Disinformation interwoven into our literature, history, archaeology, faery tales, poetry, art, architecture resurfaced in a replay of our conditioning. Even the very language itself was pejorative, and disabled us from seeking understanding. An insidious method of changing of one's loyalties and perspectives began. First sowing the seeds of doubt. Then activating the imprinting mechanisms which began to make one's chosen alternative appear an unreasonable and ingenuine superimposition. An 'unnatural' perspective which demanded too high a personal price. The brainwashing has been so successful over the years because it makes use of the innate apathy of the human mind. Sooner or later, due to exhaustion, awareness dims and the mind sleeps; but the imprinted insecurities never sleep. The subconscious works all the time and when consciousness takes over again, things look less and less good. Your perspective less and less certain.

Yes lucid and coherant like a coven of Mary Whitehouses, married to the Lone Gun men.

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And hell this was before I got to their post about christian infiltrating pagan discussion forums as mods.
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but when a film shows/slanders that all members of a religion or spiritual path
are crackpots well then; that is when they will get into trouble.

And did the Wickerman slander an entire religion? No a group on a remote island under the spell of a charismatic ruler.

The wickerman was made in the 70s when there was a blooming of Paganism and Druidism, hell it's a favourite of some pagan friends of mine. It was made, and released without fuss.

But I guarentee, I will lay money on this now, the update with have been gang raped by a group of "less we offend" producers, and they'll have toned down this dark brillant little gem, and christ, added a friendly "good" pagan so not to alienate the alternative dollar (this is not the only way they'll abuse this fine film)

Why? Because of simpering pressure groups, MMN, are just louder, more coherant, and better funded than PAN, but the mission is still the same, to force the world to adhere to only their idealised version of themselves and their beliefs, and damn anyone who dares think anyway otherwise.

Now I forget Thaed, which Placard was yours, the "careful now" or the "down with this sort of thing" ?

Nevyn

I think they may get grief from both sides the fully bunny neowiccans and the
christian fundies.
Hate to see the orginal fúcked with tbh.
Hope they dont leave out Willow's song.

ObeyGiant

From scotsman.com

The original director of The Wicker Man has called in his lawyers to have his name taken off promotional material for the $40m movie even before lead star Nicolas Cage has finished filming.

"The amazing thing is that all the publicity keeps on saying that I have written the screenplay, which is obviously not true," says Hardy, who did not even take a writing credit on the original, though he worked closely with writer Anthony Shaffer.
...
Hardy is highly sceptical about the new Wicker Man. "I don't quite understand what they're doing. It appears that not only is the lady involved, but there are also attacks by killer bees, which sounds like a really old-style horror film."

shuushh

killer bees ?

sweet mother of god

when are these remakes going to end

Every religion has it's crackpots,
but when a film shows/slanders that all members of a religion or spiritual path
are crackpots well then; that is when they will get into trouble.

its one group on a remote island not exactly all pagans now is it ? i always thought of it as more of a cult due to remote living type of thing ala deliverance than it being any sort of attack against pagans

Nimrod's Son

Remakes should be made illegal. :mad:

CuLT

Yes! Killer Bees!

And rabid dogs! And when the dogs bark they shoot killer bees out of their mouth!

Rev Hellfire

CuLT wrote:

Yes! Killer Bees!

And rabid dogs! And when the dogs bark they shoot killer bees out of their mouth!

That sir is a movie I would subscribe to, would the bee's have laser stingers by any chance. I do like a good laser.

eth0_

Oh FFS!

Eoin

Rhyme wrote:

Bah... i dont see how they can top Christopher Lee's creepiness and Britt Eklund's naked dance

pointless info (more here):

They actually got a body double in for the nekkid dance as Eklund was preggers at the time, and she was a bit peeved because the double had (allegedly) a much bigger bum than she did.

Prior to shooting the final scene, Edward Woodward was in the Wicker Man and a goat was penned in above him. Because the goat was scared at being shut up, it urinated on Woodward.

Lemming

Oh mighty and vengeful God, tell me who to smite and they shall be smotten!