"The Wicker Man" director Robin Hardy has confirmed he's moving forward with "Wrath of the Gods," the third (and apparently final) film in "The Wicker Man" series.
The project will complete a trilogy of 'Wicker' films and Hardy is in the opening stages of financing the film ahead of a potential shoot next year in the Shetland Islands.
Hardy says: "The first two films are all (about) offers to the Gods. The third film is about the Gods. I use the vehicle of the final act of Götterdämmerung (the last of Wagner’s Ring cycle)."
The news comes ahead of a digitally restored 40th anniversary re-release of a 'Final Cut' of the first film in the series - the original 1973 "The Wicker Man". Hardy also penned and helmed the 2011 sequel "The Wicker Tree".
Source: Screen Daily...
The project will complete a trilogy of 'Wicker' films and Hardy is in the opening stages of financing the film ahead of a potential shoot next year in the Shetland Islands.
Hardy says: "The first two films are all (about) offers to the Gods. The third film is about the Gods. I use the vehicle of the final act of Götterdämmerung (the last of Wagner’s Ring cycle)."
The news comes ahead of a digitally restored 40th anniversary re-release of a 'Final Cut' of the first film in the series - the original 1973 "The Wicker Man". Hardy also penned and helmed the 2011 sequel "The Wicker Tree".
Source: Screen Daily...
- 8/26/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
If you only know the version of The Wicker Man that starred Nicolas Cage and a bunch of bees, I want you to leave right now and rent, download or stream Robin Hardy’s original 1973 classic The Wicker Man, starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. There’s a world of difference between that film and the travesty that Neil Labute foisted upon the world. Unfortunately, Robin Hardy didn’t really make much since The Wicker Man, but now he has plans to complete the proposed trilogy of The Wicker Man, 2011′s The Wicker Tree and the upcoming The Wrath of the Gods.
Speaking with ScreenDaily (via Cinema Blend), Hardy discussed the future of his projected trilogy. Here’s what he said:
I am just at the opening stages of financing it, and hope to make it next year. The first two films are all about offers to the Gods. The...
Speaking with ScreenDaily (via Cinema Blend), Hardy discussed the future of his projected trilogy. Here’s what he said:
I am just at the opening stages of financing it, and hope to make it next year. The first two films are all about offers to the Gods. The...
- 8/26/2013
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Wrath of the Gods will complete a trilogy that includes cult classic The Wicker Man and The Wicker Tree.
Wicker Man director Robin Hardy has revealed that he is moving ahead with new feature Wrath Of The Gods, which will complete a trilogy of ‘Wicker’ films.
He spoke to ScreenDaily ahead of a 40th anniversary re-release of The Wicker Man, which has been digitally restored and has been labelled ‘The Final Cut’.
“I am just at the opening stages of financing it (Wrath Of The Gods) and hope to make it next year,” said Hardy, who will also produce.
The writer-director added: “The first two films are all (about) offers to the Gods. The third film is about the Gods. I use the vehicle of the final act of Götterdämmerung (the last of Wagner’s Ring cycle).”
The new project, which is slated to shoot in the Shetlands, won’t be “heavily Wagner-esque” but is...
Wicker Man director Robin Hardy has revealed that he is moving ahead with new feature Wrath Of The Gods, which will complete a trilogy of ‘Wicker’ films.
He spoke to ScreenDaily ahead of a 40th anniversary re-release of The Wicker Man, which has been digitally restored and has been labelled ‘The Final Cut’.
“I am just at the opening stages of financing it (Wrath Of The Gods) and hope to make it next year,” said Hardy, who will also produce.
The writer-director added: “The first two films are all (about) offers to the Gods. The third film is about the Gods. I use the vehicle of the final act of Götterdämmerung (the last of Wagner’s Ring cycle).”
The new project, which is slated to shoot in the Shetlands, won’t be “heavily Wagner-esque” but is...
- 8/23/2013
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Manager Peter Gelb is leading the way in attracting a new, younger audience to New York's Metropolitan Opera, but at what cost?
In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a window. It captures whatever is happening on the Met's stage – so its general manager's eye can be trained on rehearsals and performances all day long. When I visit, the set of Philip Glass's Satyagraha is being taken down, to be replaced, a little later, by that of Don Giovanni (both productions have British directors, to whom we will return).
It is appropriate that Gelb's eye on his operatic kingdom is via a screen, for cinema has become the company's boom area. Gelb claims it will reap $10m–$12m (£6.4m–£7.7m) net profit from this, its sixth season of live HD transmissions into cinemas. Donizetti...
In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a window. It captures whatever is happening on the Met's stage – so its general manager's eye can be trained on rehearsals and performances all day long. When I visit, the set of Philip Glass's Satyagraha is being taken down, to be replaced, a little later, by that of Don Giovanni (both productions have British directors, to whom we will return).
It is appropriate that Gelb's eye on his operatic kingdom is via a screen, for cinema has become the company's boom area. Gelb claims it will reap $10m–$12m (£6.4m–£7.7m) net profit from this, its sixth season of live HD transmissions into cinemas. Donizetti...
- 12/9/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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