Rejoice!
Crueler than the burning of Edward Woodward has come the news to the 90-odd crew primed and ready to work on the brand new reimagining of The Wicker Man that filming has been scrapped at the 11th hour.
The movie titled Cowboys for Christ, which was written and to be directed by the original Wicker Man helmer Robin Hardy and starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Graham McTavish, Paul Wesley and Susie Amy was to begin filming in Scotland this week but the Dumfries and Galloway council have confirmed that financing has fallen through.
It has really been a last minute decision, all of the 90 man crew had been put up in four star hotels in the area.
No word if they are going to give financing another go or if the film will now be scrapped indefinitely. Hopefully it will because despite the additions of some of the original crew, do we really need to see another re-tread of what is an absolutely perfect original film?
source – moviehole
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Whatever happened to THE RIDING OF THE LADDIE, Hardy’s sequel treatment? Was this project one-and-the-same? THE RIDING OF THE LADDIE is an unfortunate title itself, but COWBOYS FOR CHRIST is at least as bad.
I can confirm to the above comment this film has gone ahead and all the crew are great although Christopher Lee will not be in it due to ill health i believe!!