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Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'?
Matt writes "Has Hollywood's staleness finally rubbed off on Sam Raimi & co.? Get this, Sam Raimi is remaking 'Evil Dead', the 1981 horror cult classic. Oh and if that wasn't shocking enough, he won't even be directing it... But somehow Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are onboard as well."
Thank god bruce is on, but im really afraid that they will go the way of the Star Wars prequels with "oh oh look at my shiney CG covering up my lack of flavor
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Without Raimi's visual style, which along with Bruce Campbell, virtually makes Evil Dead, I can't see how this can be a success. Also, when I met Bruce back in September of 2002, he said he would not ever reprise the role of Ash for any more Evil Dead movies. He said they were just too hard on his body and he was too old for it now. The article doesn't mention what role he'll have in it, so it's unclear exactly how he will be a part of this one.
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We now have the year is 2004, we now have S-Marts. Instead of Evil Dead1, don't you think its time for Army of Darkness2?
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Imagine Evil Dead with slightly better acting and special effects. It's essentially a remake, oddly enough with the same star. The whole situation's just weird.
Evil Dead 2 was not a sequel, but a remake, and a better one at that. I don't see how anything could be better than Evil Dead 2, but what the hell, why not let Sam try again?
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I'm under the impression that he did Evil Dead 2 primarily because he wanted to do Army of Darkness, but had done Evil Dead with a different studio, and so he couldn't use that footage in AoD, so he had to re-shoot it basically into Evil Dead 2... I dunno, I agree, weird.
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Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness) left things wide-open for more mayhem starting with S-MART in a (presumably) necronomicon-tainted suburbia. Perhaps revitalizing the franchise with a few nods from more modern horror films (28 Days for example) in a 4th installment might be the better course? Why yet another remake of Evil Dead 1?
So anyone out there care to guess if we are going to see a top-of-the-line film or another wonderfully campy B-flick held together with cardboard, kayo syrup, and great catch phrases?
The Alien series is an experiment of telling a series of stories, while changing the genre each time.
Alien was a horror/suspense movie.
Aliens was a pure action flick
Alien3 was a drama
Alien Resurrection was a comedy.
The only problem was with the fourth one - they hired the right guy to write it (Joss Whedon), but forgot to tell the idiot director that it was *NOT* supposed to be a b-movie. (Or maybe the did tell him, and he didn't understand them - English isn't his first language.)
Of course, if this theory holds, Alien 5 will either be a romance, or a musical (or possible both.)
There is a place in the Movie the Evil Dead II that can be used to sync up exactly with the first "Evil Dead" movie to combine the both.
At the end of Evil Dead, Ash is walking out alone, in the morning, when the deamon *camera* comes towards him, through the house, he screams and all goes black.
In Evil Dead II, after the girlfriend is killed by the playing of the reel to reel, the next morning he is out behind the shack, and same sequence, demon *camera* comes through the house, but this time he is grabbed, flown through the trees and christmas lights.. etc etc.
For a Halloween party one year I matched those shots from the end of I and near start of II to make one long VHS marathon movie that played for nearly 3 hours. Yes, you do miss the intro and beginnings of the 2nd movie, but the story from that point seems to sync up pretty flawless until near the end when the playing of the reel to reel comes back into it.
But for purity yes, both movies are essentially the same exact damn movie. One, the first, leans towards, kids in the woods partying, get killed. The 2nd movie is more along the lines of Man and woman in the woods, woman is killed man goes nutty insane by morning. Hence the Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn.
Even at one point in BOTH movies the SAME Necklace chain with spyglass is arranged to make a skull. Also note in both movies the car they arrive in is the exact same one.
Same as in George Lucas and Kevin Smith. Creativity requires limits and rules, and finding ways to break them. When you have no limits and no rules, you have nowhere to go.
Then again, the Evil Dead series has a well-established history of making fun of itself, so there's really not that much that could go wrong. If it turns out to be an overbudget, CGI-laden travesty.... that could actually be kind of funny.