Playbill: Wicker the movie—starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Peter Dinklage—is out October 23 and already, early reviews are calling it "the horniest, most tender film of the year." We at Playbill know all about falling in love with a man made of straw—we do support the ending of the Wicked musical after all.
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Until reading this article, I didn’t notice the connection between the story of the Wicker Man and that of Wicked. It’s funny that there are two book into musical into movie stories that have the lead falling for a man made of straw. And their titles are very similar as well. What a coincidence. I also really liked hearing the story of how The Wicker Man got picked up and turned into a musical. I think it’s nice that it wasn’t already a huge, well-known IP getting made into a musical, but rather something unique that the writers found through the internet. However, now that it's getting made into a movie with a star-studded cast, I imagine more people will begin to discover the musical and short story itself. I’ll be very interested to see how this movie ends up being received by the public, but I, for one, am looking forward to seeing it.
When I saw all the ad-press for Wicker I did compare it to Wicked: For Good which came out last year, but I had no idea there was an additional musical with a romance surrounding a man made straw. I think it is really interesting how overtime similar stories get thought up and made, whether by accident or on purpose. Based on the image used in the article it looks like the Wicker husband is a full scale puppet with an actor behind it compared to Wicked where the Scarecrow is a performer in make-up. I wonder what the reasoning behind the choice to do a puppet was compared to makeup or vice versa in Wicked?
I am also curious now if there has been any controversy about the movie being a knock-off of the short story or play or if the movie has said outright that it either had no idea these two existed or if it is directly inspired by either of them.
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