Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror film
A screenplay by one of the UK’s foremost writers, Anthony Shaffer, and a cast headed by Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward should have been the stuff of dreams for the director Robin Hardy in filming The Wicker Man more than half a century ago.
Although it is today revered as a cult horror masterpiece, the extent of the misery that it brought the film-makers has now been revealed in previously unpublished letters and script drafts.
