Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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With Warner Bros. Pictures remake of The Wicker Man on its way to theaters September 1st, Bloody-Disgusting's 'Slice' had the chance to talk to the director of the film, Neil LaBute, at this year's San Diego Comic Con. If you have not seen the original 'Wicker Man' you may want to avoid reading on as this scoop carries a few spoilers on how the film ends - read on with caution. Check out more Comic Con coverage here and here. Nicolas Cage plays a reclusive sheriff who goes to search for his estranged daughter after she mysteriously disappears on a secluded island. When he arrives, he senses something more is amiss among the island's secretive residents as he starts to uncover a mystery involving strange sexual rituals, a harvest festival and possible human sacrifice...
Are we going to be seeing any sequels to “The Wicker Man” in the future? “It’s not a movie where I look at it and say how many Wicker Men can we burn…the ending remains pure, that was the thing that everyone was very adamant about…that was one of the things that really sticks with you when you first see it, that they had the strength of their conviction to put this person in real jeopardy and there was no way out,” LaBute tells Bloody-Disgusting.
So they’re not afraid to hurt a character played by a big name like Nicolas Cage? “What’s interesting is taking a person like Nic, when you say what does he bring to it, he brings a movie star status as well so I think right down to the end, people will be saying he’s got to get out of this some how, some way, some helicopter, some damn thing is going to happen that allows him to escape, and when that doesn’t happen, there’s a sense of ‘sh-t!’ I love that feeling in a movie where it’s like they really followed through with where they were headed.”
Speaking more about possible sequels he says “there are certain things that I’ve done to the movie that allow for the possibility of, you can always go back to that island outside… everyone’s still there so you could revisit the thing. But it’s something that plays really well one time because it’s built so much around this uniform trick that everyone has been working against him. When you know that, you’ve got to create a very different film for a second film…I don’t know that I’d want to revisit it myself because it works in a great sense of one of these short stories like ‘The Lottery’ and it feels like the story is told to me.”
Some Sacrifices Must Be Made on September 1, 2006.
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
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