FIRST LOOK AT OLIVIA COLMAN'S TRANSFORMATION FOR TWISTED ROMANCE THAT'S AUDACIOUS AND DELIGHTFUL
Olivia Colman's upcoming movie Wicker just released a first-look image, teasing a "twisted" story with an "unconventional romance" and a star-studded cast.
Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, and adapted from Ursula Wills-Jones' short story The Wicker Husband, the film sees Colman play a "smelly, single, and perpetually ridiculed" fisherwoman living on the outskirts of a village.
She sparks outrage among her neighbours when she asks a basketmaker to weave her a husband, starting an unexpected romance that challenges tradition.
Colman is joined by the likes of Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki, and Alexander Skarsgård in the cast.
The film is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, which will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City from 22 January to 1 February.
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A description of Wicker on the festival's site reads: "In their audacious and delightful follow-up to 2020’s Save Yourselves!, Sundance Film Festival alums Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer adapt and expand Ursula Wills' beguiling short story about envy, commitment, and the trappings of societal norms.
"Wilson and Fischer bring this medieval oddball village to life with an all-star cast and generous helpings of wry wit."
Heaping praise on the film's stars, it continues: "Olivia Colman’s sardonic fisherwoman flies in the face of expectations and assuredly unravels tradition as she fights for the relationship she wants and the treatment she deserves from Alexander Skarsgård’s enigmatic and composed wicker man.
"Part fable, part historical comedy, and fully eccentric, Wicker invites us to reconsider and even set alight the stories we’ve told ourselves about marriage, creating space for true romance to unfold."
Announced back in 2023, Australian filmmaker David Michôd – best known for Animal Kingdom and Christy – serves as producer on Wicker.
Filming has reportedly wrapped on the project, but a release date outside of its festival world premiere has not yet been announced.
Wicker has its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival.
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2025-12-11T16:38:52Z