THE WICKER MAN - WICKER MAN SEQUEL SCRAPPED

WICKER MAN SEQUEL SCRAPPED

Plans to produce a sequel to 1970s cult movie THE WICKER MAN have been scrapped due to "financing problems". A remake of the original movie - with Nicolas Cage in the leading role - was released in 2006, but producers had hoped to shoot a follow-up to the previous Edward Woodward thriller. The horror picture was slated to begin later this month (Apr08) in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - the same remote landscape used in the original eerie 1973 thriller - but the shoot has now been cancelled indefinitely due to a lack of funds. The news has devastated local councillors, who had hoped to profit from the publicity surrounding the movie. Dumfries and Galloway councillor Gill Dykes says, "We will maintain contact with this interesting project and I can only hope we'll be top of their location list if the financial problems get resolved."