By
Cat Zhang,
a culture writer at The Cut, covering books, film, TV, and music.
music. Cat was previously an editor at Pitchfork, and in 2022, she received the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30.
The premise of Wicker sounds like it was hallucinated by a TJ Maxx home-goods addict who spends too much time binging AO3. Adapted by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson from a short story by Ursula Wills-Jones, the upcoming fantasy-comedy film follows a spinster fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who, fed up with being ostracized for her singleness, commissions a local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) to weave her a husband.
