Evil Useless Rise is creeping out of the haunted basement and into theaters subsequent month, however—very like the 2013 Evil Useless remake—it received’t star Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, as an alternative pursuing a brand new continuation of the story. And whereas Campbell himself has stated he’s achieved taking part in Ash, Evil Useless director Sam Raimi simply tossed a tiny speck of hope to splatter followers who dare to dream that isn’t true.
In an excerpt from a brand new interview with Empire, the director—whose most up-to-date characteristic was final 12 months’s Marvel entry Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity—defined that there have been, at one time, plans to make good on Ash’s cameo within the Evil Useless remake’s finish credit. “That character [in the reboot], Mia, was nice, so I used to be very . We had been speaking about an ‘Evil Useless IV’ for the opposite department of that universe, and we had been nervous slightly bit a couple of collision,” he stated, earlier than name-dropping the sequence’ much-loved Starz sequence, which ran from 2015-2018. “Ash vs. Evil Useless is what that morphed into. However I all the time thought there was room for each. I nonetheless assume there’s room for all types of Evil Useless motion pictures. I don’t assume they cancel one another out.”
The large draw for Raimi can be reuniting with Campbell and producer Rob Tapert—each of whom labored on Ash vs. Evil Useless—{that a} new venture would entail. “I really like working with Bruce and Rob. I like it as a producer as a result of they’re actually good companions, however I additionally like being supported by them because the director,” Raimi instructed the journal. “So I hope that’s on the playing cards ultimately.”
Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell are all govt producers on Evil Useless Rise, so it’s not like these guys are strangers lately. And one other venture involving the trio wouldn’t essentially be one other Evil Useless movie; Raimi undoubtedly saved that a part of his reply imprecise sufficient to recommend as a lot. Nonetheless, even with out that Ash vs. Evil Useless sequence finale cliffhanger simply hanging out ready to be additional explored—and past the truth that the present already did “Ash in center age” to perfection—it could nonetheless be, ahem, groovy to see Campbell decide up the chainsaw once more. What do you consider the concept? And can you be trying out Lee Cronin’s Evil Useless Rise when it arrives April 21?
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