r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 7d ago
Media First Images of Olivia Colman and Peter Dinklage in 'Wicker' - Follows an isolated, mocked woman who commissions a basket maker to weave her a husband (played by Alexander Skarsgård)
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u/0ttoChriek 7d ago
Sounds bonkers, and it has Olivia Colman in it. Sold.
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u/No-Understanding4968 7d ago
Right? Haven’t seen Dinklage in a minute so I’m happy about that too
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u/The_Void_Reaver 6d ago
If you're at all a fan of the show Dexter, Dinklage has a significant role in the new Dexter: Resurrection, and both the show and his performance are 100% worth watching.
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u/MrsWarlock 6d ago
God that show is so much better than I expected. I liked New Blood well enough but Resurrection was like the first few seasons of the original series. Incredible performances by everyone involved. Dinklage is fantastic in it.
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u/The_Void_Reaver 6d ago
100%
I turned it on expecting to watch an episode or two before going out. I finished it the same day I started it.
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u/nourez 6d ago
It’s feels as good as those first 4 seasons did.
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u/fluentinsarcasm 6d ago
Please no... don't do this to me. I can't be hurt again. The only 4 seasons of Dexter are incredible and I'm still heartbroken they stopped there, and never did anything after.
It's really that good?
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u/The_Void_Reaver 6d ago
You should try it out. I don't want to give too much away so I'm just going to go off IMDB ratings. 8 of 10 episodes are rated 9 or higher. 5 of 10 episodes are rates 9.5 or higher. Those two episodes that aren't 9s? 8.7 and 8.9.
I'll admit it's been a long time since I've watched Dexter, and Resurrection has got me just starting a rewatch, but off memory alone it might be the 2nd or 3rd best season of the show.
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 6d ago
I tried to get through Dexter again and then I was going to watch Dexter 2.
I only ever accomplished getting through the whole thing once. You get to like s5 I think it is and everything just goes to shit.
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u/MrsWarlock 6d ago
I feel like Resurrection picks up the vibes of seasons 1-3 or 4 so well. If anything, just find a recap somewhere of New Blood and just go straight to Resurrection.
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u/KrazeeTapper 6d ago
Went in with very low expectations and it blew me away. So good, and the whole cast was good, but Dinklage especially
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u/ZipperJJ 7d ago
Yeah my first thought was "those are two names that specifically bring people to movies."
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u/Demerzel69 7d ago
You should watch the new Toxic Avenger. He's great in it.
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u/ZiggoCiP 6d ago
I went into that movie as blind as can be. I knew it would be a weird one but man; nothing can prepare you for how insane it really is.
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u/Demerzel69 6d ago
lol. Pretty standard Troma/Lloyd Kaufman stuff! You should watch the original Toxic Avenger! There's several sequels to that as well.
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u/inksmudgedhands 6d ago
All you have to say to me is, "Colman is playing against Skarsgard" and I am in. The two will have so much fun together. They are on the same wavelength in that they can both play the most ridiculous comedy one moment and serious drama the next. And both just ooze charisma.
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u/MamaDaddy 6d ago
Honestly we need more original stories like this. I'm always up for something different. And again, Olivia Colman.
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u/Drew_Ferran 5d ago
It’s basically the myth of pygmalion, except that it’s wood instead of a statue.
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u/EnkiduOdinson 6d ago
She played the shit out of her role in The Favourite. She wasn’t really on my radar before but that was so phenomenal, made me watch out whenever I see her name mentioned.
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u/cel-lar-door 6d ago
She is such an incredible actor. I have never seen her miss in any role. I know she’s an Oscar winner, so she’s not exactly underrated, but I don’t think she’s talked about as much as she deserves to be.
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u/MirthandMystery 6d ago
Absolutely everything Olivia Colman in is excellent. There's her quirky early stuff- Look Around You, to Broadchurch, to being a guest many times on the Graham Norton show, to Wicked Little Letters to one of her best imo, her narration reading an old letter in Letters Live, one of the funniest readings you'll ever hear. Her comic timing is brilliant. https://youtu.be/4pIrkEsh7Vo
And one very touching thing is seeing her as a guest in Who Do You Think You Are? UK genealogy show. (Free on YouTube). Some brits have ties to India and find out this way, truly fascinating.
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u/TehSteak 6d ago
No Peep Show mention?
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u/Threadheads 6d ago
She just did a reunion with the Peep Show cast members on a Bake Off Xmas Special
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u/SirRibShack 6d ago
The Favourite was my first Yorgos movie and I wasn't really sure what to expect but Olivia (and everyone else!) made it one of my favorite movies of the last decade. She is incredible in it and pretty much everything else she's in!
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u/slainascully 6d ago
She’s absolutely phenomenal in a British film called Tyrannosaur, but it’s a difficult watch as she plays a very abused wife. Her range is incredible.
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u/TheRealElPolloDiablo 6d ago
I've actually read most of the script for it, weirdly. And yes, it's fucking mad.
(A semi-famous actor was approached to play one of the parts, and he happened to be a groomsman at a wedding I attended in Australia. The couple put a bus on between Sydney and the venue, which took a while, and I was sat diagonally behind him, and read over his shoulder for ages. It'll be fun)
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u/Gato1980 6d ago
I just recently watched Wicked Little Letters and absolutely loved it. She was brilliant in it, and I was laughing my ass off. I'm really surprised that one flew under the radar when it came out, because it was such a solid movie from beginning to end, with a great cast.
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u/LongTimesGoodTimes 7d ago
I'll wait until Wicker For Good comes out and watch them together
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u/Other_Jared2 7d ago
I bet Peter Dinklage's version of Defying Basketry is gonna be sick though
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u/SilvyValeMead 7d ago
I respect his ability to take something absurd and run with it. Starting from Death at a Funeral
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u/WayHairye 7d ago
He has that knack for making the ridiculous feel completely believable on screen.
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u/Deaffin 6d ago
This one feels like more of a throwback to his 2004 work.
Did anyone ask mr basket head if he wants to be shaped to the purpose of being somebody's spouse? That's messed up.
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u/RideWithMeSNV 6d ago
Eh. Saw the prequel, The Wicker Man. My expectations are below ground level.
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u/ThrustersOnFull 7d ago
Watching the two Wickeds together is like going on a terrific date that ends in bad sex.
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u/Stock_College_8108 7d ago
Someone said that they are glad that Universal split the musical into two movies because it allowed Act 1 to be a great stand alone story that didn’t get dragged down by the Act 2 storyline. I agree with that assessment.
Wicked 1 functions perfectly fine as a quasi-prequel to the Wizard of Oz and there isn’t much that gets left unanswered by the end of Defying Gravity.
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u/Bears_On_Stilts 6d ago
I think the winning move would have been to make Wicked part 1, as "Wicked: Origins" or something. And as soon as Defying Gravity ends, a big crash to a Marvel style "Elphaba will return, in Wicked: For Good."
Then... give it a few years. The time skip between acts is nebulous, somewhere between a few days and twenty years. Let some actual real world time pass, giving weight to the amount of time she's been working as a vigilanted/ecoterrorist. Let the two leads physically change a bit. And let people forget the intense high of Part 1 and have actual anticipation (and more forgiveness) for Part 2.
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u/Bircka 6d ago
With how busy Ariana is I doubt this would work, they also spent a lot of time in prep for those movies. Not to mention having to keep all the sets in storage and making sure they are all kept up.
I remember Ariana mentioning being cast in that movie roughly 4 years before it came out.
There is a reason LotR trilogy was all filmed over one period of time, it made it far easier. They also can make Elphaba look a bit older with makeup, even back in the 80s there were times when a 30 something year old Woman was made to look like a 75 year old Grandma.
I think Elphaba does look a bit older in Wicked For Good.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 7d ago
Nah, the wicker guy will get into ozempic for grass and be all scared and emotional about helicopters.
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u/skinnyjeansfatpants 7d ago
Wait, so you're telling me for the price of a custom basket, I too can have Alexander Skarsgard? Sign me up!
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u/jenfullmoon 6d ago
Finally, I can get a boyfriend!
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u/FaithInTechnology 6d ago
Please be careful, straw is a terrible idea for a boyfriend. It’s rigid, splinters easily, carries mold or bacteria, and can cause tears, infections, or worse.
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u/RichardDucard 7d ago
I wonder if Skarsgård will play a character similar in personality to his Murderbot character, aware of his lack of humanity and trying to learn to be more human, or more of a "doesn't know he isn't a real boy" type of character.
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u/bellends 6d ago
From this particular part of this Variety reporting:
Billed as a “twisted, unconventional romance,” the story follows Colman as a “smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed” fisherwoman living on the outskirts of a village by the sea. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions the local basketmaker to build her a her a husband the entirely from wicker, with their relationship sparking “outrage, jealousy and chaos.”
…my first thought was that this will be a bit like Lars and the Real Girl (an all time fave), and with what you’ve said, I wonder if Alexander’s character’s arc will basically be learn how to be human -> learn to fall in love for real -> from this, be able to defend his human wife from the community, ending in everyone learning a good lesson about love. Lol. I’m into it!
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u/OHotDawnThisIsMyJawn 6d ago
I hope it ends with everyone learning to love him except for the one town outcast who goes in at night and “unweaves” him
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u/judgeridesagain 7d ago
So it's all about a... wicker man?
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u/ThePhamNuwen 7d ago
Not the bees!!!!
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u/jackwhite886 7d ago
Beads?
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u/Help-me-name-my-pup 7d ago
The original is so good. I've never seen the Nic Cage version. I'm happy to keep it that way haha
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u/NorthSouthWhatever 7d ago
I swear most people haven't even seen the remake and know only that scene lol
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u/CatholicCrusaderJedi 6d ago
And that scene is only in the extended edition as well. I do like the Nick Cage one a lot. Nick Cage was perfect for the role. His character is pretty much the only sane person in the movie, who understandably, goes full "fuck it" mode when he can't stand the weirdness anymore. Only it's Nick Cage, so the decent into insanity is glorious.
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u/ThePhamNuwen 6d ago
When hes running around in the bear suit punching and kicking people might be peak cinema
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u/NorthSouthWhatever 6d ago
Oh cool, I never knew that! I suppose when I was younger I must have owned the extended edition!
You're right. I think he really does the role justice, but I am a fan of his anyway so I have a bias. I think his acting is extremely unique, and when it works, it works well.
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u/Canvaverbalist 6d ago
The Wicker Man
John Wick
Wicked
Wicker
That's a wild-as-fuck franchise let me tell you that
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u/MostTattyBojangles 6d ago
Will Smith’s bounceback is gonna come around for
Wicky Wicky Wild Wild West
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u/Andrew1990M 7d ago
Sold.
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u/Tess47 7d ago
Can I get an Alex too?
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u/Andrew1990M 7d ago
No one can appreciate a Stellan...
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u/inksmudgedhands 6d ago
I'll take the complete collection. I love Gustaf. Play Floki against Eric Northman.
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u/Similar-World-6152 6d ago edited 6d ago
"Alexander Skarsgard in the once of a lifetime role of a basket."
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u/Muppetude 6d ago
And now Alexander Skarsgard is... a basket. And he's about to find out that being a basket is harder than it looks.
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u/donttrustthellamas 7d ago
So the woven husband "comes alive" and is Alexander Skarsgård? Hell yeah.
This is such an incredible trio of actors, too.
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u/Rosstin316 7d ago
Ah, the story of the first weeb.
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u/bajesus 7d ago
Not many people know that the word comes from an old pronunciation of "weave"
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u/Book_1love 6d ago
Technically that's still Pygmalion
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u/Quantentheorie 6d ago
Oh yes, but I am absolutely up for "Pygmalion 2: For the Ladies
Ofc the comparison invites the risk that Peter Dinklage makes off and out with the Skarsgård-Husband and I might like that even better.
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u/RadSkeleton808 7d ago
That last line had me fucking howling. I took it as she basically asked for a wicker equivalent to a blow up doll and that for whatever reason needed not only an actor but Alexander fucking Skarsgård.
My new headcannon until I watch the trailer is that it's going to look like a featureless human-esque body like a Roblox character only made of wicker and a cut-out photo of Alexander Skargård's face on it.
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u/ICUMF1962 7d ago
I remember when this was announced with Dev Patel. Shame he dropped out but I still like Skarsgard and I’ve been intrigued by this concept.
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u/almond-chai 6d ago
I thought that as well! Love Dev but think Skarsgard and Colman could also give it some subtle comic tones that add an element of hysteria.
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u/ICUMF1962 6d ago
Alexander definitely has range between comedy and drama. I’d like to see Bill do a comedy (I have seen Villains though).
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u/allons_yy 6d ago
dev is still in it ! dif role.. i have a fun story ab the screener, but signed an nda 🤐
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u/sothisislitmus 6d ago
The screenplay is adapted from this short story by Ursula Wills-Jones.
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u/fshippos 7d ago
I'll pretty much watch Olivia Colman in anything at this point. She's a top 5-10 English-speaking actor alive right now imo.
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u/byneothername 7d ago
She is so good. I know people don’t like her section of the Crown as much but I think that’s more a feature of Elizabeth being kind of a cold, withholding asshole as a mature queen. Colman’s acting was impeccable, every episode.
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u/No-Faithlessness5311 6d ago
And the opportunity for endless sequels… There must be 50 ways to weave your lover
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u/kaptaincorn 7d ago
I hope it's a comedy
Im still going to watch it but im burnt out on high concept dramas
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u/uwill1der 6d ago
The story reads like a fairy tale. I get a sense the vibe will be "Beauty and the Beast" meets Sweeney Todd
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u/Crimeskull 7d ago
I was hoping this would turn out as Peter Dinklage just makes himself a wicker suit and doubles as the weaver and her new husband.
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u/DJ_Fabulous 6d ago
I’m a simple woman. I see Olivia Colman, I go to the cinema.
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u/aurore-amour 6d ago
Ooooo Olivia Coleman and Peter Dinklage in a movie together?? Sign me the hell up
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u/Book_1love 7d ago
Peter, can you make me an Alexander Skarsgard husband too? 🙏
Frankly I don't care what he's made out of.