The Wicker Tree

[Lord_Stewie]

Hey,

And yes the title is a follow up of the Wicker Man.

"What most people don't realize is that when British Lion Films was sold out from under [the leadership of] Peter Snell, my film, The Wicker Man, was buried," begins writer-director Robin Hardy, who is hard at work on its long-awaited sequel, The Wicker Tree, shooting outside of Edinburgh in Scotland.

"It was a classic show business ploy for tax purposes, and my gut instinct was to distribute the film in the United States. So I contacted Roger Corman, who was enthusiastic, but he wasn't offering the $300,000 that [the consortium] could get as a tax shelter if they just dumped it. Soon after, Cinefantastique came out with 37 pages of photos, calling it the 'Citizen Kane of horror films.' A group at Tulane University in New Orleans decided to adopt The Wicker Man as a project, raising $5-6 million, and Christopher Lee offered to come to the United States and work with me on publicity. We went to film festivals all over the country, bicycling the print from city to city, getting 'boffo' kudos from Variety and other critics while, in London, those businessmen were still trying to bury it and discredit me and Peter Snell."