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Sam Raimi Says There’s “Room for All Sorts of Evil Dead Movies” Going Forward
The Evil Dead franchise has taken a bit of a nothing’s-off-the-table approach in recent years, with Fede Alvarez’s remake in 2013 being followed by the return of the original franchise in the Starz series “Ash vs. Evil Dead.” There was a time when we felt the remake probably meant no more Ash Williams in the franchise, but thankfully that didn’t end up being the case.
Up next, the franchise returns to theaters with Evil Dead Rise on April 21, 2023, a brand new movie that once again introduces brand new characters and a fresh new storyline. Does the existence of Evil Dead Rise mean we’ll never see the return of Mia (Jane Levy) from Fede Alvarez’s movie? According to creator/producer Sam Raimi, everything is still on the table.
Raimi tells Empire Magazine, “That character, Mia, was great, so I was very interested [in a mashup movie with the original franchise’s Ash]. We had been talking about an ‘Evil Dead IV’ for the other branch of that universe, and we were worried a little bit about a collision. Ash vs. Evil Dead is what that morphed into. But I always thought there was room for both.”
“I still think there’s room for all sorts of Evil Dead movies,” Raimi continues. “I don’t think they cancel each other out.”
The only thing we likely won’t be seeing from the Evil Dead franchise in the future is the return of Bruce Campbell as Ash. At least in live action, Campbell has retired from the role.
Of course, that doesn’t rule out a potential animated Evil Dead project…
‘Evil Dead Rise’
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”
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