Pages tagged “evil dead”

• • Decrease
  • Reset
  • Increase
  resize
• print
• send

Diablo Cody Working on Evil Dead Remake

Diablo Cody (Juno) has signed on to make revisions on the script for the upcoming remake of the cult favorite horror flick The Evil Dead. Federico Alvarez, who penned the first draft, is directing the film. Though relatively fresh to the movie scene, Alvarez’s alien invasion short “Panic Attack” caught the eye of original Evil Dead director Sam Raimi. Cody also expressed her confidence in the up-and-comer via Twitter, saying, “Fede Alvarez wrote a brilliant script. My job is easy. Have no fear. (Wait, do have fear.)” Along with Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are overseeing the project as...  read more

Bruce Campbell Confirms Evil Dead Reboot

Hail to the king baby! Resident big-chinned, B-movie badass Bruce Campbell has confirmed the rumored Evil Dead reboot via a Q&A thread on Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” section....  read more

Is Sam Raimi Considering an Evil Dead Reboot?

Rob Tapert, producer of The Evil Dead, says that he and writer-director Sam Raimi are considering a reboot to the cult classic. “It’s possible; we’re looking at a script this month.” Tapert told the Detroit Free Press....  read more

Evil Dead to Rise Again to Theaters in 2010

Before there was Spider-Man, Sam Raimi began his multi-billion dollar career with little more than $375,000 and a script for a schlocky X-rated horror film. But when Evil Dead was released in 1981, its gore and wit garnered it a cult following, amassing box office earnings of $2.4 million in the U.S. and over $29 million worldwide. Its success led to several sequels, a stage musical, and cult fame for its writer-director and its star, Bruce Campbell....  read more

Sam Raimi to Produce Abominable Snowman Movie

Normally, a film about a remote Himalayan village under attack by a fictional cold-weather beast would be the stuff of B-movie horror-genre drivel. But with Sam Raimi involved, it has the potential to be a deliciously witty gore-fest well worth seeing....  read more

Sam Raimi talks Evil Dead 4

Sixteen years ago, writer/director Sam Raimi appeared to have forever closed the book on the Evil Dead series with the third installment, Army of Darkness. But like Ash's encounters with the recurring Book of the Dead that just can't seem to stay shut, the saga appears to be back for another bite. ...  read more

Evil Dead IV will actually happen

In real life, Bruce Lorne Campbell (not to be confused with briefly famous glam rocker Bruce Wayne Campbell) doesn't have a chainsaw or sawed-off Remington as a prosthetic arm like he does in cult horror classic Evil Dead II. But the actor's role as Ash Williams in the Evil series has earned him rare B-movie fame—enough to garner cameos in all three Spiderman movies, and some Burn Notice love, too. ...  read more

Sam Raimi's Evil Dead becomes hit Broadway musical

We are currently in an age where books are adapted into movies, movies are turned into TV series, TV series morph into Broadway plays, and plays turn into running online commentaries authored by the actors. You just never know whether you'll see your favorite comic strip turn into a blockbuster or a Saturday morning cartoon first; it's a slow, gradual transformation from one medium to the next. Kind of like the Animorphs. But you know you've struck gold when your favorite b-list movie becomes a musical....  read more