Cage himself acknowledged that the film was "absurd". He remarked in 2010: "There is a mischievous mind at work on "The Wicker Man", you know? You know what I mean? And I finally kind of said, 'I might have known that the movie was meant to be absurd.' But saying that now after the fact is OK, but to say it before the fact is not, because you have to let the movie have its own life." In February 2012, Cage gave a live webchat with fans to promote "". When asked what roles from his career he would most like to revisit, Cage responded, "I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made "Ringu", and I would like to take "The Wicker Man" to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.