Wicker Trailer Ignites Online Buzz Ahead of October Release as Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård Lead Cast
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 6
Wicker Trailer Ignites Online Buzz Ahead of October Release as Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård Lead Cast
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 6
Summary
A new trailer for Wicker has driven heavy online chatter after dropping earlier this month, pushing the Sundance-debuted film into wider public view ahead of its October theatrical release.
Olivia Colman plays a lonely fisherwoman who asks a basket maker to build her a husband from wicker, with Alexander Skarsgård appearing as the sentient wicker man at the center of the romance.
TikTok, YouTube and other platforms filled with reactions ranging from praise for the casting to jokes about the story’s logistics, with many viewers comparing it to monster romances and sentient-object tales like Pinocchio.
The film adapts Ursula Wills-Jones’s contemporary short story The Wicker Husband, giving an original fantasy romance a rare breakout moment in a market crowded with sequels, prequels and reboots.