Robin Hardy expressed his interest in completing a loose trilogy of "Wicker Man" films when we spoke to him after he completed work on The Wicker Tree. It has now been revealed that he's moving ahead with the third movie and would like to start filming next year.
This was confirmed by ScreenDaily, who recently spoke with the director, and reports that he's currently securing funding for the project. There were not too many new details other than the fact that he hopes to begin production on the movie next year. Here's what he had to say during our interview with him last year:
"It's really the story of the end of the Ring Cycle by Wagner, where the gods have been defeated. They have overplayed their hand and they have to go back to Valhalla. I've written a screenplay that is very loosely based on that with completely contemporary characters, American and Scottish.
I'm going to shoot it in the northern most islands in the British Isles. They are probably more Scandinavian than Scottish, and I'm going to use some of that folklore too. It's about the gods getting their comeuppance. The music will also be very important again and it will be tongue-in-cheek, but will also be very scary at the end.
I'm calling it The Wrath of the Gods, but it wouldn't surprise me if we changed the title because of The Wrath of the Titans. We could call it The Twilight of the Gods, which may be closer to the Wagner story."
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