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Wicker Wins Over Two
Ellen Burstyn and Leelee Sobieski have been added to the cast of the Nicolas
Cage-starring remake.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
By Mark Umbach
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Burstyn takes Wicker role
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Nicolas Cage has been attached for some time, and now Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn
and Leelee Sobieski are joining the cast of Neil LaBute's remake of the 1973
British horror film The Wicker Man. Millennium Films is producing the
project with Equity Pictures and Emmett/Furla Films. The film is currently shooting
in Vancouver.
Wicker Man centers on a cop (Cage) investigating the disappearance of
a young girl in a small, cult-like community. Burstyn, an Oscar winner for Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore, will star as the cult leader, while Sobieski
will play a bartender and confidant to the Cage character.
Cage and his Saturn Films partner Norm Golightly are producing with John Thompson,
Boaz Davidson and Randall Emmett, while Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort and George
Furla will be the executive producers.
Burstyn, repped by CAA, recently worked for Darren Aronofsky, who directed
her to an Oscar nomination for Requiem for a Dream, in The Fountain.
She will soon be starring in the NBC drama The Book of Daniel, a midseason
series co-starring Aidan Quinn.
Recently seen in Joy Ride and Deep Impact, Sobieski has kept
busy this year working on films including the upcoming Dungeon Siege,
Dark Places and The Optimist. Sobieski is repped by UTA.
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