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Sam Raimi Remaking The Evil Dead

Source: Variety

November 18, 2004

"Spider-Man" franchise director Sam Raimi and original producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are reteaming to produce a remake of the cult hit The Evil Dead through Ghost House Pictures and Senator International, reports Variety.

Raimi wrote, directed and produced the 1981 film, which tells the tale of a group of friends who go to a cabin in the woods, where they find an unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only Ash (Campbell) remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle The Evil Dead.

Raimi will not direct the remake, so Ghost House is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written.

The original film spawned sequels Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness.

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The other day I was playing GTA:SA and I was on the run from the cops and noticed a graffiti tag I hadn't sprayed over. The cops were very close and I was low on ammo and health, and I wondered if I should stop to spray the tag. I decided not to, as it was clearly a bad idea.

Now, if I can recognise a bad idea and avoid implelenting it in a video game where precisely nothing is at stake and there are no consequences to consider, why (oh why) can't people recognise and avoid similarly awful ideas, such as this, in 'real life'? Surely anyone can see that this can't possibly end well?

To find the answer, imagine someone walking into my front room and offering me several million pounds to spray over that tag. Of course, I'd never do it...

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You've got to be joking. What the fuck is the point in remaking The Evil Dead?

Hell half of the charm is the fact that it looks so gloriously low budget and they managed to do so much with absolutely nil special effects and homemade costumes and such-like <_<

OMG GIVE IT A CHANE U HAVNT SEEN IT!!!111

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Now now everyone, let's not slate the film before it's done. It might be brilliant and fulfil the lifelong ambition of some young, earnest filmmaker to remake one of his favourite films.

And other such absolute bollocks.

Paul W S Anderson presents Evil Dead starring Pauly Shore and The Krankies.

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The Liberal Elite

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So lets get this straight, Sam Raimi wants to remake Evil Dead, which he already kinda did with Evil Dead II, and not forgetting that Evil Dead was a semi-remake of his earlier film Within the Woods

A remake of a remake that already had a remake.

It's not as if Nintendo haven't been getting away with this remaking lark for years, is it? <_<

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Now now everyone, let's not slate the film before it's done. It might be brilliant and fulfil the lifelong ambition of some young, earnest filmmaker to remake one of his favourite films.

And other such absolute bollocks.

be quiet, or I will force you to watch the Psycho remake repeatedly.

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If Raimi is producing it then he does have some control on the project, he is not stupid enough to let out a remake if he did not think it is not good enough or as good as the original. People are already complaining and it hasnt even been written yet :o

It's completely pointless to remake it. The whole things got "cash cow" written all over it.

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i love this idea:A re-re-re-reimaging. :o

Whilst it would be nice to see a well-done modern remake with cool zombie makeup and neato effects, it would be pointless. And no doubt the zombies would run and geeks would cry*. And as wickedkitten so rightly said, the ropiness of the first is fantastically charming.

*not because they don't like it, but becuase you're not hardcore if you like something new.

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http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/27776

Ghost House and Mandate Pictures are going BIG with their casting for their forthcoming remake of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, which begins lensing this March in New Zealand.

Bloody Disgusting has learned exclusively that Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Priest, Mirror Mirror) is in final negotiations to play "Mia" in FilmDistrict's reboot aiming for release on April 12, 2013.

*Update* Mia is the LEAD, and is the female version of Ashley J. Williams (Ash), once donned by Bruce Campbell in the original trilogy. To reveal more would ruin the movie.

In this version, the story centers on five friends (David, Natalie, Eric, Olivia, and Mia) holed up at a remote cabin where they discover a Book of the Dead with a demonic force unleashed possessing each until only one is left to fight for survival. As we also exclusively reported, there is a drug subplot.

As previously explained, David is a mechanic and is engaged to Natalie. Mia is the friend who is heading to the cabin to detox; Olivia is her best friend/nurse. Eric, presumably, is the kid who unleashes the demons.

After a recent overdose, Mia struggles with her new-found sobriety. She begins acting insane, so it comes as no surprise that nobody believes her crazy claims of coyote dogs and trees attacking her!

Fede Alvarez directs the redo of Sam Raimi's cult classic 1981 The Evil Dead from his own screenplay co-written with Rodo Sayagues. Revisions were done by Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody.

Wait a sec, you have a property where the character most associated with it has the rare case of having a unisex name, but when they decided to change the gender they change the name anyway. Talk about missing an open goal.

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