Despite this, the release proceeded to spawn an entire franchise. Titled, Within the Woods, the short was a meager success. Sam Raimi, Rip Tapert, and Bruce CampbellĪ prototype short film, produced by Raimi on a micro-budget was developed to market his concept and acquire funding from producers and studios for a feature-length film. Evil Dead Rise is scheduled to be released in 2022. Filming officially concluded on October 27, 2021, with Cronin revealing the film used over 6500 liters of fake blood. Cronin revealed that filming was officially half way done in July. In May 2021, Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan had been cast in the film, followed by Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies, and Nell Fisher in June and Mia Challis in July. The film will officially be titled, Evil Dead Rise, to be produced by New Line Cinema and released on HBO Max. Raimi personally chose the filmmaker to continue the franchise. In June 2020, Lee Cronin was chosen as a director with a script he wrote. Bruce Campbell will serve as a producer, and will not be the star of the film.
He acknowledged continued potential for a sequel to the 2013 film: "I think you may see some action on the Evil Dead movie in the next six months." By October Raimi announced at the New York Comic Con, that a new film is in development. In July 2019, Sam Raimi discussed the future of the Evil Dead franchise stating that he is "working on some ideas right now", while expressing hopes that Bruce Campbell would return for a continuation of "the original Evil Dead" story-line. By November of the same year, Campbell further expressed doubts in a sequel to the original trilogy. During a panel at Fan Expo Canada 2017 in September, Campbell stated that he believed the only successful future for the franchise at that time, was through a premium cable network, providing the example of Ash vs. Campbell confirmed that he would reprise his role as Ash, while Raimi later additionally signed on to the project as director. In March 2017, Raimi announced that he would write a fourth Evil Dead film with his brother with the official title of Army of Darkness 2. Álvarez later suggested his involvement with the followup to his movie. At a WonderCon panel in March 2013, Campbell stated that plans at that time for future films in the franchise included, a sequel to Álvarez's film and a sequel to the original trilogy developed by Raimi, followed by a crossover film which would merge the narratives of Ash and Mia. Tapert, Sam Raimi, & Bruce CampbellĪt the premiere event for Evil Dead (2013), Álvarez announced that a sequel is in development, though he did not intend to be involved with the project. Ī new film in the franchise, titled Evil Dead Rise, is set to release in 2022 on HBO Max with Lee Cronin serving as writer and director, Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan starring, and Tapert, Campbell, and Raimi serving as producers.
A TV series named Ash vs Evil Dead premiered on cable network Starz in 2015 starring Bruce Campbell as Ash and executive produced by Campbell, Sam Raimi, and Rob Tapert, which lasted for three seasons and ended in 2018. The franchise was resurrected in 2013 with Evil Dead, both a reboot and a loose continuation of the series directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues, and produced by Raimi, Campbell, and Tapert. The franchise has since expanded into other formats, including video games, comic books, a musical, and a television series. The original trilogy includes The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987), and Army of Darkness (1992), all written and directed by Raimi, produced by Robert G. The protagonist, Ashley Joanna "Ash" Williams ( Bruce Campbell) is the only character to appear in every installment of the original trilogy, with the notable exception of his main love interest Linda, who appears in Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness during only the prologues. The series revolves around the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, an ancient Sumerian text which wreaks havoc upon a group of cabin inhabitants in a wooded area in Tennessee. Evil Dead is an American supernatural horror film franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of four feature films and a television series.