Nicolas Cage to Star in Wicker Man
Posted on March 16, 2005
Emmett/Furla Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corporation, in conjunction with Millennium Films and Equity Pictures, announced this morning that Nicolas Cage has signed to star in The Wicker Man for writer/director Neil LaBute. The picture is scheduled to begin filming in Vancouver in mid-July. This announcement follows Family Room's announcement last week (February 25, 2005) that it had been diligently developing and packaging new projects to announce in the near future. The Wicker Man is the first of those projects to be announced. The suspense thriller by Neil LaBute is a remake of the 1973 UK cult classic. The Wicker Man follows the story of Sheriff Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) as he investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Things and people are not as they seem on the island and when Sheriff Malus discovers evidence of pagan rituals his hope of unraveling the girl's disappearance become increasingly uncertain.
