Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi’s return to low (ish) budget horror, may be many different things. It could be, as Robert Tapert said, a ‘wild ride’ or, as Raimi said, a ‘spook-a-blast’ or simply the latest in a long line of films that suggest to audiences that horror’s crowning moment came and went in 1987.
What it won’t be is a vehicle driven by Oscar darling (but not winner) Ellen Page, who, according to Bloody Disgusting, walked away from the film because she was unhappy with the latest script. They suspect that Page has found better things to do post-Oscar, like grow up, but what if the source is actually on the money? There’s an audience that doesn’t dare to doubt in this effort, because it represents something we’ve wanted from Raimi since he borrowed eight-legged clout from Sony.
But what if Sam and Ivan’s script does blow? Page has proven to be a good judge of material in the past. Juno backlash notwithstanding, she’s got one of the better CVs for a young actress and her departure actually worries me. There’s no shortage of decent replacements in town at the moment, but this move not only makes for a less interesting project, it casts doubt on a project I’ve wanted to buy into wholesale.
UPDATE: Don’t get too worried about the Ivan and Sam script just yet. Variety has a different take, and more detail. The trade claims scheduling conflicts, based on the fact that Drag Me To Hell has been postponed due to the impending SAG strike.
“We were racing to start production so that we could accommodate
Ellen’s schedule,” Ghost House and Mandate said in a joint statement.
“But like so many other productions trying to start before the
potential SAG strike date, this one needed more time and we had to push
back the start of production.”
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Probably does blow. SEE 'Spider-Man' 3: The Crying Game
"she's got one of the better CVs for a young actress "
True. And I especially liked her in Ghost Cat (or at least thats what Animal Planet Called it when I saw it).
Yes. Any of us would be proud to have X3 on our resume.
If I were an actress looking to get a foot hold in big budget movies, yeah, I'd be really fucking happy to have X3 on my resume. I'd just want it to have better things between that credit and my current project. Now she doesn't have to do an X3 after Oscar attention and 86 her career before it really starts.
You would think that starring in a film by Sam Raimi could only help your career no matter how many awards you have been nominated for. That screenplay must be the shittiest piece of shit that has ever been shit.
hey Jaime Rey, honestly, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do if you want to get some attention. From the looks of it, she kept some of her integrity.
If Raimi's "production" job at Ghost House is any indicator of what he finds "horror" to be anymore, i'm a little worried about this script myself.
Then again, would the scripts for any of the Evil Dead movies make you believe the movies would be any good at all?
These ads with the beeping in the background have to go. I thought a bomb had been planted in my computer. This is very annoying.
I'm wary of anything described as a "spook-a-blast"
Screw this bitch.
I was in this movie, which made 300 million dollars, and I was in this movie, which made 280 million dollars, and this movie, which made 250 million….
That's why Lance Hendrickson makes the big bucks.
OKAY, SERIOUSLY: WHAT THE FUCK IS "SPOOK-A-BLAST"?!?!
so is she a rugmuncher or not?
I am just amused that so many people are blasting page because she doesn't have the "Christopher Walken/Sam Jackson-I'll-take-any-fucking-role-for-a-paycheck" mentality. Have some kind of professional pride in your work. damn tards here can bash her for not liking what she see's in a script, but would any of you want to attach your name to a piece of shit? That when when anyone see's you they think of feces.
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