The Pitch: You might not know it, but the classically haunting 1973 horror The Wicker Man has a sequel sequel...released nearly 40 years later and with only a tangential relation to the original film. Christopher Lee returns in cameo form and original director Robin Hardy is back behind the camera, but that wasn't enough to earn it a cinema release in most countries. The Result: Likely due to the infamous reception of the 2006 remake rendering the words "The Wicker Man" dirty to an entire younger generation of viewers, The Wicker Tree didn't get a theatrical bow despite costing $8 million to make, and as a result was a financial bust. A ridiculous four decades later, though, anyone who loved the original likely expected the follow-up to be a cash-in, and though Hardy didn't write the novel on which The Wicker Tree was based until 2006, he was certainly misguided in thinking that people were really interested in delving deeper into this mythology when the original stands so well on its own. Perhaps had a sequel been made at least a decade or two ago with a still-mobile Christopher Lee returning in a lead role as the wonderfully villainous Lord Summerisle, then we might have been interested. As it stands? Not really, yet Hardy continues to press on, planning a third movie, The Wrath of the Gods, for release next year. We'll have to wait and see... Which movie sequels took so long to get made that you lost interest, or you feel the actors got too old? Let us know in the comments!
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