Rob Tapert Sheds Some Light On Evil Dead Franchise

Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead may eventually return in some way, shape or form, but the project’s been a total pain in the Ash for years, producer Rob Tapert told SCI FI Wire.

Tapert–who produced director Raimi’s seminal horror film and its sequels, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness–said that the possibilities include a musical, another sequel or a remake.

“There’s a guy [producer Don Carmody] who wants to make a musical out of it, a 3-D musical based on the one [Evil Dead: The Musical] that ran off-Broadway,” Tapert said in an interview. “And I still think that that’s the one I’d like to see greatly. Sam promises he’s going to do Evil Dead IV, with Bruce Campbell starring in it [as Ash], at some point in time. I just hope Bruce is still alive.”

As for the remake? “Sam and I have kicked that idea around, with Sam really being the person [pushing for it] over Bruce’s objections and kind of my going, ‘Why?’” Tapert said. “It was a movie that nobody saw theatrically, and it was meant to be a theatrical experience. If we could get some young filmmaker to go and say, ‘I can make this far better than Sam did,’ we should let him go and try. Sam is the one who keeps saying, ‘We should do that,’ and I’m the one too busy and somewhat too reluctant and lazy to really fully enable Sam to get it done.”

Source: Scifi Wire