{"id":656605,"date":"2026-10-25T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/656605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:00:12","slug":"the-stroud-woman-whose-short-story-inspired-hollywood-film-wicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/656605\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stroud woman whose short story inspired Hollywood film Wicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wills posted The Wicker Husband on a short story website called East of the Web. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After racking up interest from readers, she was contacted by actor Rhys Jennings who, alongside Olivier Award\u2013winning composer Darren Clark, created a musical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March 2020, it opened at Watermill Theatre in Newbury, but after only four nights the theatre had to close because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A year later, she was approached by producer Justin Lothrop who asked her for film rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had a meeting with writers and directors, but after Olivia Colman came onboard in 2023 things rolled out really fast,&#8221; Wills said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By the end of 2024 I was out in Budapest where the film was being shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I read the script, I thought it was going to be good, and when I saw it being shot in Hungary I knew it &#8211; the end result is something unique and amazing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think audiences are going to go crazy for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wills posted The Wicker Husband on a short story website called East of the Web. After racking up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-656605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}