JAMES GEORGE FRAZER’S THE GOLDEN BOUGH WAS ALSO AN INSPIRATION. Shaffer, however, decided the novel would not adapt well to the screen and used its basic outline to craft a new story. The Wicker Man screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, producer Peter Snell, and actor Christopher Lee later acquired the rights to the story, which combined elements of mystery and the occult and involved the mysterious death of a teenage girl in a Cornish village. ITS SCRIPT IS LOOSELY BASED ON DAVID PINNER’S 1967 NOVEL, RITUAL.Īuthor David Pinner wrote Ritual as a script treatment for another director, but adapted it into a novel after the director declined the project. Here are some fun facts about one of cinema’s greatest pagan horror musicals. Fortunately, it has survived in all its strange and fascinating glory. Its makers wanted to offer something new and more substantial in a horror landscape dominated by monsters and busty women, an attempt that was met with incomprehension and outright hostility by the production studios. But The Wicker Man’s road has been rough to say the least. The movie has inspired filmmakers and spawned spinoffs, tributes, and an infamous 2006 remake. Christopher Lee’s turn as Lord Summerisle cemented his reputation as one of cinema’s great villains. Though in many ways it was a cinematic oddity, Robin Hardy’s 1973 movie The Wicker Man has captured the imaginations of critics and devoted fans with its representation of life on a remote Scottish island, depictions of pagan rites (with weird animal masks), and a combination of whimsy, musicality, and dread.
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