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By Charley November 18, 2004 2:41 PM
Director Sam Raimi ("Spider-Man") and Bruce Campbell ("Evil Dead" films) are teaming to produce a remake of "Evil Dead," the film that launched both of their careers, reports Variety. ?The new "Dead" will be produced through Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, the company that brought us the U.S. version of "The Grudge."
Raimi will not direct the remake, according to the article, but he and Campbell will be integral in bringing the 1981 cult hit back to the big screen. ?The production team will begin working on a script as soon as they find the right director.
There is no word on whether Campbell will reprise his role as Ash, the cult anti-hero he went on to play in two sequels--"Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness." ?"Evil Dead 2" was more like a remake/sequel of the original, which added to and changed enough to make both films individually relevant. ?This new film would be yet another remake of "Evil Dead" and maybe without the director and actor whose unique abilities made both films work to begin with.
At this point it looks like Campbell and Raimi will be strictly producing this reinvention of the film that started it all for them, an unfortunate conclusion for those of us who grew up with "The Evil Dead."
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- Seann William Scott as ASH??? UPDATED!!!
| comments: 68
evil dead 2 
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 21, 2004 9:07 AM
EVIL DEAD 2 WAS NOT A REMAkE!!!!!!!!! the begining was just a recap of the first. if you cut it off after the spirt goes threw the house and into ash's mouth and spliced it with the first it would be one movie!
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 21, 2004 6:44 PM
it was too a remake lol, n00b!
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 22, 2004 7:59 AM
no it wasn't....listen to the comantary .
Subject reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 22, 2004 8:09 AM
fish!
RE: Subject reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 23, 2004 9:52 AM
Potatoe!
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 23, 2004 12:59 PM
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evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 23, 2004 5:31 PM
it was a remake it was the the same movie but at the same time it was not.
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 24, 2004 11:57 AM
why don't we agree to disagree and call it a remix?
Zombies? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 24, 2004 12:55 PM
Are the Evil Dead films classed as Zombie films? I've had this debate with my friends. I can't quite decide if they are simply dead people, come back to life and turned evil or zombies. But isn't the kind of definition of a zombie the living dead and resort to primary instincts to eat? I'm really confused! Someone clear my mind!
RE:EvilDead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 24, 2004 11:58 PM
No they arent Zombie films cos the Zombies dont eat the living
RE: RE:EvilDead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 25, 2004 7:36 AM
Army of darkness just kinda had a load of monsters.
Zombies? or not? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 26, 2004 6:23 PM
What do you mean zombies don't eat the living? Zombies eat whatever they can but go for brains (found in the living). And no, they aren't zombies in the classic Evil Dead movies. Zombies eat, that's it. The Deadites (Name given in Army of Darkness) didn't try to purely kill Ash, they tortured him also; Taking the body of his dead love (First movie and it's remake with different ending entitled Evil Dead 2). This counts as non zombie activity.
RE: Zombies? or not? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 27, 2004 3:57 AM
The geek-O-meter seems to be off the chart!
deadites reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 27, 2004 4:11 AM
the deadites are demons spirts from an exstinced race called candareans (like a fictional babalonia). thay posses the bodies of the live and take control. it is possible to forces the spirt out if something trigores an emotional memory. But after about an hour or two the bodies is dead and the spirt controlling it get stronger and can change the body to screw up shapes and stuff. so no their not zombies. now that geekyness to the extreme.
Deadites reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 27, 2004 3:41 PM
Thank you for enforcing the fact that they are not zombies. If some random shemp calls me a geek then I guess I'm a geek because I just bought Army of Darkness (Boomstick edition).
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 28, 2004 7:34 PM
Wow...um...it definetally was a remake...
Hail to the King Baby reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 28, 2004 8:34 PM
I will not mind all that much if Raimi decides to only produce this film and not direct. However, if Bruce Campbell does not reprise his role as S-mart employee Ash, I will refuse to watch it. Although I think Johnny Knoxville would make an interesting choice. But Bruce has been one of Hollywoods most under rated an unappreciated actors for the past 20 years, and with a remake starring himself maybe a whole new generation would embrace him and give him the respect as an actor he deserves.
Shop smart, shop S-mart.
RE: Hail to the King Baby reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 29, 2004 8:19 AM
i wud probly cast brad pit as ash cos hed probly play it well.
RE: Hail to the King Baby reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 30, 2004 3:32 AM
I can't hold it nerd levels are tooohigh and the geek o meter is smoking help us someone......help
RE: Hail to the King Baby reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 30, 2004 5:04 AM
Shut up and talk about Star Wars!
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 30, 2004 12:51 PM
No, no, no !!!!in the first "evil dead" ash visits the cottage with his sister, girlfriend and another friend with his girlfriend. In "evil dead 2", only Ash and his girl visit the cottage...get your fact straight!!!
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 30, 2004 1:30 PM
Shut up you fag! You're a fag!
Recap AND Remake reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 1, 2004 4:40 AM
The first 5-10 minutes of "Evil Dead 2" were a recap of the first movie. However, they were also a remake as that recap conveniently left out the fact that in the first movie there were other people at the cabin besides Ash and his girlfriend.
setting u straight again. reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 1, 2004 1:12 PM
EV2 was made so it could as a sequel and a remake. As the frist film was only seen at festivals and then straight video, when 2 was made they made it so u don't have to c the frist but if u hav then the first 5min is a recap with some changes to simple it. (I'm the same gut know did the speak about canderian demon by the way)
lasr comment spelling reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 1, 2004 1:18 PM
i sorry for my spelling i was typing to fast
Correction reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 1, 2004 1:22 PM
EvilD2 was made so it could be a sequel and a remake. As the frist film was only seen at festivals and then went straight to video. When EvilD2 was made they were worried no1 wud watch a sequel 2 a film dat no1 had ever seen, so they made it with a 5min recap with some changes made to simplfy it. So really ED2 is not a remake and is a sequel. (He is the the guy who posted about the canderian demon by the way)
evil dead reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 1, 2004 2:47 PM
it was the vision of raimi and the brilliants of campbell that made the original the picture it was and I choose to trust the two in the thought that they wouldnt leave there child to stray
evil dead reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 1, 2004 2:47 PM
it was the vision of raimi and the brilliants of campbell that made the original the picture it was and I choose to trust the two in the thought that they wouldnt leave there child to stray
RE: evil dead reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 4, 2004 2:13 PM
What the hell is Evil Dead? Some kind of movie?
Good Ash, Bas Ash? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 5, 2004 9:33 PM
i here they're casting Seann William Scott!? that's right the stif-miester!!!
Sean William Scott as Ash.. reply
Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on December 6, 2004 12:36 AM
If I'm not mistaken, that rumour was first started here. Since then it has been mentioned in reports online ususaly referencing dtheatre.com.
RE: Sean William Scott as Ash.. reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 6, 2004 4:15 AM
So does that mean it's completely untrue then?
You want a little? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 10, 2004 2:27 AM
Who gives a shit aslong as bruCEE gets the ash role.
Who the Troy said use Brad Clitt as Ash? Primate.
Evil dead 1 different film -
Evil dead 3 recaps part of two and thats it finito.
Fangoria issues and cinfastique explore this view and raimi gives his actuality.
End of Dead
More double barrel remingtons please
Oh no reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 10, 2004 2:29 AM
Not that grinning imp fuckin williamson Scott
No way- fuck his ACTING his way its just not Ash need a macho dude not some tea drinking monk
RE: Oh no reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 10, 2004 4:37 AM
Zander from Buffy actually LOOKS like Bruce Campbell.
Role of Ash reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 15, 2004 12:32 AM
first off, Im completely against the idea of this remake. With that said, I think that in order to minimize the hemoraging of one of the greatest movies ever made, they should cast Ryan Reynolds as Ash. I know 90% of america only knows him cause of VanWilder, but if youve seen him in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place youd see that he could play the wimp that ash was in the first half of the series and the cocky ash of the second half of the series. But thats just me.
RE: Role of Ash reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 15, 2004 3:57 AM
Zander LOOKS like Ash!!!!!!
SCREW REMAKING GREAT MOVIES!!!! reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 5, 2005 10:37 PM
This is something I just don't get. There is no Evil Dead without Bruce Campbell. None. End of story...if you think otherwise your opinion sucks boomstick.
There is no other actor (regardless of looks) that could pull it off and make it half as good. I'm waiting for someone to say they're remaking Nightmare on Elm St. or Halloween. WTF!?!?!?!??!?!? Psycho the remake was a travesty. What's with all the crappy remakes? Battlestar Galactica with a sexchange? That Dawn of the Dead wannabe...DID I MISS A DAMN MEETING? I'm not one to geek out in public often...but this is a bit awkward. If Sam Raimi were directing I would feel better about it.
Please tell me Bruce will be in this movie. If not, the only words I want ot hear are "This was a dumb idea and we're not doing it".
For the love of Christ reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 20, 2005 5:32 PM
Why don't everyone calm down and bitch about the movie AFTER it comes out. That way, you can bitch on fact and not on rumour.
who gives a shit reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 21, 2005 5:36 PM
Who gives a shit I'm sick of remakes...
RE2 was a sequel reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 22, 2005 5:58 PM
Sam decided to "lie" about it just being Ash and Linda at the cabin because a few of the original actors were busy during the shooting so they just left it out to save time. It's somewhere on bruce-campbell.com or a fansite attached to it.
oh crap reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 22, 2005 5:59 PM
i wrote RE2......
It's ED2.....oh crap.
crap crap crap crap crap crap crap.
Damn you RE4!!!!
new speceial effects suck reply
Posted by Ralph Ninjaknight (No Email) on April 6, 2005 7:48 AM
I really hope this remake does not happen.I don't care so much about directors or actors,but I know that if this movie was made now it would look so fake because they would use modern computer graphics which are so obviously animated.The original and Evil Dead 2 are perferct.Call me crazy,but I tell you that 1970's and 80's movie production and effects are far more superior than today's.In thoes old movies the monsters look real as real can get,like you can actually touch them,even though it's just foam,slime,and make up.In new movies,you can clearly see that you are looking at a cartoon,and it's no where near as convincing.Though the technology was somewhat more primitive,it was much more effective.The original Evil Dead movies are perfect and have no room for improvement,eccept maybe edit out a few boring parts close to the beginig of the first one,like the forest raping the girl scene.Otherwise these movies never have a dull moment.Action packed and the scariest movie ever !
here's an idea reply
Posted by Ralph Ninjaknight (No Email) on April 6, 2005 10:46 AM
How about instead of making a lesser version of Evil Dead,release the 1979 original in theaters for the first time(since it never was in theaters).It has gone beyond being just a cult film,because every horror fan I know has seen it and loves it.There must be millions of us.It would probably do good at the box office.I don't go to the movies that often,maybee once or twice in a year if at all,but I would go to see the original in a theater even though I've seen this movie countless times,just like I went to see Star Wars when it came back to theaters in 1997.
the truth (no really) reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 17, 2005 10:03 PM
As can be heard in DVD commentaries and just about EVERY interview EVER given by Campbell and Raimi:
When Raimi made Evil Dead 2 he DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHTS TO THE FOOTAGE OF EVIL DEAD. It was a different production company and in order to show re-cap footage from the original movie he would have had to fork up a lot of cash. Yes, it is strange and ironic that a director can't even use footage from his own movie in the sequel when he has the rights to the everything else, title, characters, etc... That's Hollywood for you. So rather than go through legal hassles or pay out the nose, it was decided to just film new footage for the recap. Of course not all the actors were available, and so forth...so the filmed the re-cap CAUSE THEY HAD TO. Not having a recap was the only other option, but Raimi obviously felt the audience needed to be brought up to speed somehow. SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED WITH AOD. Plus Bridget Fonda called up Raimi and requested a small part, she was a fan. All of this can be found on Bruce Campbell's website, or in any google search of [bruce campbell interview] And since the continuity was screwed up anyhow cause of the recaps, Raimi and Bruce felt justified in taking small liberties throughout the films. So, NO, EVIL DEAD 2 was NOT MEANT to be a remake, But continuity got shot to hell due to LEGAL PROBLEMS with PROPERTY RIGHTS
Evil Dead reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 15, 2005 10:53 AM
Silence Please. I'm the only who can reply...Evil Dead 2, is a remake as Tetsuo 2 is a remake of Tetsuo.
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 28, 2005 5:24 AM
For crying out loud, it's NOT a re-make...
It's a follow-up. even though it doesn't really carry the story forth it's a different plot, different people involved (apart from Ash who's in all three movies)and the ending does carry the story forwards - to the beginning of Army of Darkness . It's a bit like the first movie since it takes place in the same old cottage and so on but it's still not a re-make! To say that Dead by Dawn is a re-make of the first movie is like saying that pretty much every Friday the 13'th is a re-make of the first movie. They just changed the plot a little... Yeah well that's stupid it's not a re-make...
But i would like to see a re-make since both Raimi and Campbell will be involved i think it will carry the spirit of the first one on. If it sucks well than that's to bad but hey then you still have the original...
It's like the TCM re-make it's not as good as the original of course but i still like it and i'm glad that it was made...
hghdgh reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 3, 2005 11:46 PM
Ok I also thought that it was a remake but at the end of evil dead the demons or w.e creep up on ash and we see ash turn around scream as the demon runs towards him.Now in the beginning of evil dead 2 we all think it looks like a remake but lets just fast forward the movie o lets say 7 minutes then it will show the demon chase ash and throw as a few hundred feet backwards then thats where eveil dead left off.Then at the end of evil dead 2 that girl sends ash back in time.So if you fast forward army of darkness a few minutes then it ends up where evil dead 2 left off.So alls you do is cut off the first few minutes of evil dead 2 and army of darkness and thats where each film left off meaning THEY ARE NOT REMAKES!!!!!
RE: Hail to the King Baby reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 6, 2005 6:59 AM
Johnny Depp would be the man for the role!
whaaa?? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 7, 2005 2:54 PM
Brad pitt or Johnny Depp as Ash? Okay, Brad couldn't even play a vampire well, let alone an ass kicking half man half chainsaw. The only person right for the part is obviously Bruce, but since he's about 20 years older than he was when they first created Evil Dead and it's companion (see how I avoided previous arguements, pretty suave eh? eh?) he's never going to play Ash. They'll probably use someone from another horror flick or even a "zombie movie" as you apes put it. That would give the movie allure and reel in the crowds. Am I the only one who ever took a broadcasting or advertising class???
GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 8, 2005 4:10 PM
it was a sequal, not a remake
ed2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 16, 2005 11:33 AM
Evil Dead 2 is NOT a remake, for one it has a different plot, and for two it's called PART TWO!!!! Remake? Go remake your brains dummies.
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 21, 2005 12:15 PM
it must have been a remake, why would Ash go back to Knowbys cabin with a girl and have no idea about the tape player and the Book of the Dead?
what actor could play ash reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 29, 2005 6:59 AM
cambell could never be replaced by enyone. but if they do remake it. i agrey with someone on here johnny knoxville would be a good choice. also i dont know how old he is now but how about matt dillon he looks a little like ash. comments?
RE: Zombies? or not? reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 1, 2005 9:57 PM
Well dude did you ever see the movie "the serpent and the rainbow" there are zombies, but of a different type, i believe there are just different types of zombies, i mean its a walking corpse, i mean how much more simple does it have to be? If you saw someone crawling out of a grave and start eating pine cones wouldnt that still be a zombie?
You guy's need females. reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 7, 2005 5:24 AM
Get on with part 4. Brucie i know you can do it, you sexy bastard you. Oh yeah 2 is not a remake, it first few minutes are a cheesy recap of part 1. In a way you are all right, but here's the catch. SHUT UP. Simple as that, here ia m looking to see if this remake shit is true and u guys are bickering about evil dead 2 being a remake.............al false. So Shut up. Roll on 4.
spelling reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 12, 2005 12:08 PM
Learn how to spell and in the words of Arnold "STOP WHINING!"
Okies, just to settle this once and for all.... reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 17, 2005 1:24 PM
... okies, there was ONE person who knew what they were talking about, the person who posted reagarding Sam not having the film footage rights..... but if you're still not convinced, why not see the answer in BLACK AND WHITE! (Litterally)... and any TRUE fan would have read the small print in the end credits; "Evil Dead II - The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Gruelling Terror" *grabs a highlighter pen and puts a pink line in "SEQUEL" * Now, please.....how can you argue with a clear statement in the movie itself...
director reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 29, 2005 10:51 AM
Richard Clark of North Carolina needs to direct this film
I'm MAD!!!!! reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 5, 2005 4:54 PM
okay, okay, okay. First of all, The Evil Dead Two was NOT a remake of the first one, DUH!!!! Because, why would they call it Evil Dead *TWO* if it was the same as the first? That just doesn't make sense. They just had little recaps from the first one, to show what happened previously. And Second of all, they TOTALLY should **NOT**, I repeat, NNNOOOTTT!!! remake this movie! It was PERFECT the way it was!!! That's pretty much all I gotta say.Yup, see yaz.
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 23, 2005 7:41 AM
ahh....acording to sam and bruce it is most definetallt not a remake. watch the comantary on Evil Dead II. Oh, whait. The star and writer/director must be wrong. It's a remake. I mean they of all people wouldn't know.
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on December 23, 2005 8:10 AM
Just to help end some confusion. The first 15 minunts or so of Evil Dead II is a reinactment of the first Evil Dead. Why is it so difrent? Well at the time Sam did not own the rights to the first film so he could not use clips from it. So they shot a short reinactment. Yhea they changed the story a bit. They did that in Army of Darkness too. What happened at the end of Evil Dead II is a bit different than what happens at the begining of Army. So would that make Army a Remake too?
ash evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 30, 2006 5:28 AM
if it was a remake why call it evil dead 2 dumb s#*T
RE: Hail to the King Baby reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 11, 2006 4:00 PM
what!!! have you actually watched an evil dead film? brad pitt....you tit.
RE: evil dead 2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 19, 2006 11:27 PM
evil dead 2 was a remake. i watched them back to back and your splicing theory doesn't hold.
re.evil dead2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 30, 2008 5:24 PM
man,this evil dead remake is going to be so crappy
RE: re.evil dead2 reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 30, 2008 5:26 PM
yeah i know
remake reply
Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 16, 2008 7:59 PM
bruce is the only man for the job vo one else.
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