Update on "May Day" , The Thematic Sequel to "The Wicker Man"

[Khephra]

The Wicker Man is another film that has been talked about here before. Here's an update on the thematic sequel.

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Adding fuel to a dying fire, writer/director Robin Hardy has provided another update on his next Christopher Lee collaboration The Riding of the Laddie - a film similar in theme to the duo’s disturbing pagan freakshow The Wicker Man but is in no way a sequel or prequel to the 1973 classic.

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Dropping The Riding of the Laddie as a title (smart decision), Hardy’s film is now called May Day - a moniker alluding to the festive pagan holiday that marked the passing of spring into summer. The plot of Day still remains the same: a young religious couple traveling through Scotland happens upon a pagan revival in a remote location of the countryside. Lord of the Ring’s Sean Astin will play a man of the cloth faced with old ideals practiced by Lee’s antagonist - a role that bears a striking similarity to his part as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man.

Shooting is now scheduled to begin in 2004 with Hardy’s own Eurocentre Productions and British Lion backing most of the project. The director recently approached the film agency Scottish Green to lend a little financial aid to this £11 million production (that’s $17.6 million in U.S. funds).

Meanwhile, on our shores, Neil Labute continues to whittle away at his full-on remake of The Wicker Man for Universal studios. That film will star Nicholas Cage - whenever the man frees up his busy schedule.

http://www.creature-corner.com/news3/jul22mayday.php3

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1. How weird!

I just heard about this sequel/remake today and you post this nugget just minutes afterward. I haven't actually seen the original, but I've heard many good things. What can you tell me?

[Khephra]

2. It stars the Edwards Edwardson (I think that's his name)

as a British (maybe Scottish) detective who travels to this isolated island to investigate a murder. Any more would really spoil the film.

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3. Thanks...

It's on the top of my rentals list.

[ForrestGump]

4. Edward Woodward, wasn't it?

Haven't seen it in a long time, but it's a great one.

How much wicker would Woodwood wood if a Woodward would wood wood?

[Khephra]

5. Yeah, that's him

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