Evil Dead fans rejoiced when Starz announced they had ordered a second season of Sam Raimi’s “Ash vs Evil Dead,” the continuation of Ash’s Evil Dead story that previously left off with the 1992 Army of Darkness.
Now, a third of the way through the first season, executive producer Craig DiGregorio is teasing plans for the return of Ash and friends in 2016.
“We’re writing, and then we’re going to film it in the first and second quarter of next year,” he tells io9. “Then Starz is going to air it sometime later next year.”
When asked if the inaugural season is going to wrap up the story with the Necronomicon, he revealed that the Evil Dead franchise could go on indefinitely because Ash, played by Bruce Campbell, never seems to learn his lesson.
“The first season wraps up everything and it also wraps up nothing. Or rather, it does wrap up something, but it also leaves something else much more open-ended,” explains DiGregorio. “It’s hard to comment on that—it’s Evil Dead, so you’re never going to be done with the book, necessarily. But I guess if I were to think of it a certain way, it’s all about this character, Ash, and does he ever truly learn? Can he get out of his own way? That’s the question that we’re talking about more than anything else.
“He’s more a reluctant hero than an actual hero,” he continues. “And he’s never had a real relationship where he’s cared about someone. The first season is about him starting to care about Pablo and Kelly, his sidekicks, and treating them as his family. Toward the end of the season, there are some decisions that Ash has to make which either show he’s grown three percent as a person and can have relationships with people, or maybe didn’t grow at all. So we’ll see.”
“Ash vs Evil Dead” continues this Saturday with Episode 104, ‘Brujo.’
