The Wicker Man
1974
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Peter Snell is a Canadian film producer. He is notable for the films he made with Alistair MacLean, Don Sharp and Charlton Heston as well as The Wicker Man (1973). Select filmography. The Winter's Tale (1967) Some May Live (1967) Subterfuge (1968) Julius Caesar (1970) - starring Heston; Goodbye Gemini (1970)
Producer: The Wicker Man. Peter Snell was born on 17 November 1938 in Canada. He is a producer and executive, known for The Wicker Man (1973), Bear Island (1979) and A Prayer for the Dying (1987).
- Producer, Executive, Soundtrack
- November 17, 1938
- Peter Snell
Producer. Famous Works. CREDITS. Film Producer. The Winter's Tale, Warner Bros., 1968. (With Trevor Wallace) Subterfuge, COM, 1969. (With Joseph Shaftel) Goodbye Gemini (also known as Twinsanity ), Cinerama, 1970. Julius Caesar, COM/American International Pictures, 1970.
British Lion - Films and Movies - Peter Snell, CEO and Producer. British Lion. is one of the United Kingdom's oldest and most respected. film production and distribution companies spanning eight. decades with titles like The Third Man, Don't Look Now. and the cult classic The Wicker Man.
- Its Script Is Loosely Based on David Pinner’s 1967 Novel, Ritual.
- James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough Was Also An Inspiration.
- The Story Is Set in The Spring, But Shooting Took Place Mostly in November.
- None of The Movie’S Scenes Were Actually Shot on An Island.
- Lee Was Not Paid to Appear in The Movie.
- Actress Britt Ekland Had A Butt Double.
- There Are Multiple Versions of The Film.
- The Film’S Original Negative May Lie Under The M3 Highway in England.
- Most Songs in The Soundtrack Are Based on Traditional Folk Tunes.
- Sergeant Howie’s Stunned Look at The End Is Genuine.
Author David Pinner wrote as a script treatment for another director, but adapted it into a novel after the director declined the project. The Wicker Manscreenwriter 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 d...
Shaffer and director Robin Hardy—who passed away on July 1, 2016—plumbed Frazer’s seminal work of comparative mythology for ideas, drawing liberally from the different traditions Fraser described then fashioning them into a believable modern pagan religion with ancient roots. Hardy also said he was deeply influenced by The Wicker Image, a 1676 engr...
The pagan romps of The Wicker Mantranspire amid spring’s fecundity, but because of studio British Lion’s financial troubles, production was rushed and the film was shot in late fall in Scotland. The art department had to create the illusion of spring by attaching artificial blossoms to bare branches and bringing in fake apple trees, while cast memb...
The story unfolds on the fictional Scottish island of Summerisle, but filming happened in several coastal locations around the production base in Newton Stewart, Scotland. The film’s opening aerial images were filmed en route to the Isle of Skye and in South Africa, where there were more blossoming trees, while director Hardy was on a commercial sh...
Apparently Lee’s desire to walk away from Dracula was so great that he reportedly agreed to play the starring role of Lord Summerisle for free.
Swedish actress Britt Ekland, who plays the innkeeper’s seductive daughter Willow MacGregor, was already known as a sex symbol due to previous roles in The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) and Get Carter (1971). She agreed to appear topless in The Wicker Man, but refused to let her rear end be shown. Two body doubles, an exotic dancer and an 18-ye...
After production was completed, Hardy assembled a 99-minute version of the film based on the original script. But EMI Films, who had bought out British Lion Films during production and whose executive, Michael Deeley, detested the movie, excised a large portion of it, releasing an 87-minute version to theaters. In 1976, Hardy decided to try and rea...
Stewart’s threats to destroy the footage were unnecessary. EMI executives, foisting off Hardy’s requests for the original footage in 1976, eventually told him that the 368 canisters of film he sought had been used as filler in construction of Britain’s M3 highway, even leading producer Peter Snell to the landfill and pointing to a trove of cans at ...
The film’s songs are one of its most unique features and important enough to the narrative that it could almost be considered a musical. American composer Paul Giovanni arranged the soundtrack based on or inspired by traditional songs and recorded them with folk band Magnet. The lyrics of the opening song “Corn Rigs” are taken from a ballad by 18th...
The stricken look on the face of the sacrificial Sergeant Howie, played by Edward Woodward, as he is brought to the eponymous Wicker Man was real, as Woodward had seen only drawings of the giant prop before. Not only that, but the scene was shot in an incredible rush, as the production was on the run from studio heads who wanted to shut it down. Wo...
Sir Peter George Snell KNZM OBE (17 December 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only man since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, [4] in 1964.
Producer: The Wicker Man. Peter Snell was born on 17 November 1938 in Canada. He is a producer and executive, known for The Wicker Man (1973), Bear Island (1979) and Hennessy (1975).
