Sequelitis continues unabated: The Wicker Man 2?

Many gentlemen of a certain age will have fond memories of Robin Hardy's cult pagan chiller The Wicker Man, which featured a notorious nude folk song performance by Britt Ekland (or her body double) that considerably enlivened the bleak 1970s. It was the first, and until Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, probably the only film to make commercial hay from JG Frazer's learned treatise on world religion The Golden Bough and taught many an impressionable young urbanite that the wilds of Scotland were to be avoided at all costs.

Now, before the shock of Nicolas Cage's rather unnecessary remake has fully subsided, Ms. Ekland has told The Sunday Herald that many of the original cast are reuniting with director Hardy to revisit the subject matter in Cowboys for Christ, an adaptation of Hardy's own Wicker Man inspired novel from 2006.

Britt Ekland and Christopher Lee are both set to appear, with Joan Collins taking the part played by Vanessa Redgrave Diane Cilento in the  1973 film.  There is also talk of a third film about the perils of the Hebrides. The Scottish Tourist Board may never recover.

Comments

[Charles]

>>... with Joan Collins taking the part played by Vanessa Redgrave in the 1973 film<<

Vanessa Redgrave wasn't in the film afaicr. The actress playing Summerisle's 'wife' was Diane Cilento

[Michael]

Ah yes. Excellent point. My mistake, I trusted my own faulty memory rather than consulting IMDB.

[Luc]

the Wicker man is a dashed iron maiden song!