No official plot yet, but the original followed a group of friends as they vacationed at a small remote cabin, where they are forced to fend off against each other after they're possessed by evil spirits from within the forest.
LATEST NEWS
3/25/06
Original actor and current producer, Bruce Campbell, spoke with Penny Blood Magazine in their latest issue, where he revealed some details on the film. He describes how they don't discuss the project much since producer and original writer/director Sam Raimi is so busy (I.E. Spiderman 3), but from he gathers it'll be with a new group of people that will get affected by the Necronomicon, meaning there wont be an Ash character. He also believes that the goal with this remake is to make good use of today's visual FX and incorporate it into a "scary-ass un-rated horror film."
3/03/05
The man himself Bruce Campbell got to talkin' to a column at comiccon.com called The Beat, where he goes over the remake. Here's what he said: "We're going to do the remake and none of us feel bad about it because it's our own remake. We're not getting some 1970s TV show out of Aaron Spelling's file draw and making a movie. This is our own movie. So we're gonna update it for a new generation with new effects and tell a new story with a new cast. We'll be pulling the strings from behind. And hopefully they'll like it. I don't know when it will come about. It'll take a while to find a director and to write it and get it all set but it's gonna be made".
1/31/05
Producer Rob Tapert spoke again with SciFi about the film and revelead that he and parter Sam Raimi have no one paricularly in mind to helm the film, but do plan to get a cast of relatively unknowns to star in the film. He also went on to say the following: "Because we're not even certain what we're telling, when we get the director that we want aboard we want to craft the best experience under the title and the franchise Evil Dead. It may not necessarily be 'five people go to a cabin,' because that was just done in Cabin Fever. It could be some variation; we have a few tricky ideas up our sleeve that it's probably too early to talk about, but it may be familiar, yet a little different."
He also went on to discuss how the film will have a bigger budget than the original, saying: "We'll certainly refine the edges, but it's not a project that demands that money [be] thrown at it. It is a project that probably excels in ingenuity, so we're certainly not going to be making the $50 million Evil Dead. To attract a director who we think will be fun and cool and the audience will think is fun and cool, we may not be able to say, 'Here's $380,000 and a wheelchair for a dolly.' So somewhere in between those extremes, it's really going to be a function of director and story. They will have all the money they need and the tools to tell the story and entertain the audience in an overall fashion, but it's not something that we said we need to go out and get Ashton Kutcher to star in to get the audience to come and see it."
1/26/05
Producer Rob Tapert spoke with SciFi about how original writer/director Sam Raimi got to the point of wanting to produce a remake and also went on to reveal what fans can expect in the new film, saying: "As long as we [Raimi and him] stay true to what was the original model of the first Evil Dead, which was that we want to hurt and punish the audience, then those who love it will be satisfied. We mean to bring that out to a whole new generation in something that honors all of the people that loved it and yet gives them a new and thrilling ride that they weren't expecting. That's the challenge, and hopefully if we succeed that's kind of the glory."
DETAILS
- The film will supposedly follow a similar theme of a group of people affected by the Necronomicon (possibly in a secluded cabin), but resemblances to the original may stop there.
- There will be no Ash character in this film.
- Sam Raimi wanted to use the cabin that they used in the original film, but couldn't due to the fact that it burnt down many years ago.
- Raimi has said that he would rather not have Bruce in the film, but rather be in the sequel.
- Sam Raimi will not be directing, instead he will be looking for a new director to "reinvent" the film after a script is written.
- Produced by original writer/director Sam Raimi and original producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell.
- A remake of the classic low-budget 1981 film.
