Good news for people waiting for a proper WICKER MAN remake – or rather, “companion piece”: Robin Hardy, director of the great original is prepping a project called COWBOYS FOR CHRIST, which sports a confusingly similar premise.
The film follows the experiences of a Christian couple from Texas who travel to a Scottish village to enlighten the locals in the ways of Jesus. Initially welcomed with open arms, it soon becomes clear that the community has sinister plans for their new guests.
While we had alerted you to this movie several months back, the real news is that Hardy, 78, has a March ’08 start date planned (hard to believe this is only the director’s third flick).
Christopher Lee has been cast as the patriarch of the village – quite like, we’d have to assume, the role he played in the 1973 WICKER MAN. This is actually sounding more like a sequel than anything else. But as I mentioned above, it’s inaccurate to call this something other than an original film. CFC Films, the producers behind COWBOYS, told Screen Daily: “Cowboys for Christ is not a sequel or a refuel to The Wicker Man, but it is a story inhabiting the same territory.”
Even though I think the original is a classic, I was not completely against Neil LaBute hatching a remake; curiosity got the best of me… We all know how that turned out. I now urge you to watch the following trailer, which, while slightly tweaking the tone of the Nicolas Cage movie, will certainly provoke the same reaction watching the film does:
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