Friday, July 15, 2011

Evil Dead Redux

This has been an exciting and interesting week for fans of the Evil Dead film franchise


Dread Central posted that The Evil Dead 4 is indeed in the works has with filming due to take place in Detroit And that Sam Raimi collaborator, editor Bob Murawski is already heading there to handle prelims on the project.

At the same time actor Bruce Campbell said on TwitterBelieve in the remake, dawg! The project is real. In the works. Cool as hell. Scary as hell.”

A mere 24 hours later Bloody Disgusting told us that Fede Alvarez will direct the film.

And then it all got official

Award winning writer Diablo Cody was announced via press release to making script revisions and polish. Alvarez wrote the script with Rodolfo Sayagues The duo did Panic Attack! together

Raimi, Robert Tapert and Campbell will serve as producers. The trio said in an official statement

"We are committed to making this movie and are inspired by the enduring popularity and enthusiasm for The Evil Dead series. We can't wait to scare a new generation of moviegoers using filmmaking techniques that were not available to us thirty years ago as well as Federico Alvarez bringing a fresh eye to the film's original elements"

Fangirltastic says that there is some social media backlash to the Cody deal and I have say I sorta feel that way too--but only on the basis of how bad Jennifer's Body turned out rather than any issue of gender

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