So we’ve known the Evil Dead remake was happening for some time. After all the seeming starts and stops, interview dodges from Raimi and Campbell, and general mixed message, the thing is happening with Diablo Cody updating the script and Fede Alvarez directing. There’s money and a studio behind it, and it’s happening the way remakes happen. That hasn’t confirmed one way or another how the old crew would be involved, if at all, with the biggest question remaining will Bruce Campbell play Ash?
According to Campbell himself, he won’t play Ash (and neither will anyone else) because the character doesn’t appear in the script.
“No Ash character currently.”
He also reiterates that this is a remake rather than a sequel.
I have very little doubt that Bruce Campbell will wind up in this Evil Dead movie someway somehow, in at least the smallest of cameos. If we’re to believe the geekery of all involved, that just can’t not happen. What this does suggest though, is that they’ve really gone in a different direction for this remake, with new characters and new heroes. Which is the best possible move for an inherently questionable endeavor… re-casting Ash just plain isn’t worth it.
Do you agree? Have any faith at all that they’ll do something interesting with the idea and title? And how likely do you think it is that Ash will show up at some point?
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Here’s a thought: Why not have a female Ash? She could be the Ultimate Final Girl, and it’d be funny as hell to have her as lovably pig-headed as Campbell’s original.
We kinda had a female Ash in the criminally overlooked Drag Me to Hell. At least that’s how I interpreted the part, even though she doesn’t have a chainsaw arm.
I guess I’m ok with that there’s really no one nowadays that could come close to iconic status as Bruce Campbell. Maybe 10 years ago the guy who played Xander on Buffy could’ve filled his shoes he had the same kind of snark and even a similar look to Bruce. Oh well I still may see it, really depends where they take the movie.
I would be fine with a Sean Connery in Robin Hood cameo for Campbell at the end. Barring that, I agree that retiring the character is the way to go.
A female Ash? As long as she doesn’t end up like a Buffy clone, I’m all for it.
I’m still disinterested in giving this production any of my money, but the fact that they’re leaving Ash alone shows they’re at least making some minimal effort.
I’m more concerned about the effects they plan to use than the status of Ash. I really do not care to see a CGI deadite.
Well, that’s me done on Evil Dead. Got my DVDs, Bruce’s books, even had a poke through the games and comics. I’ll take that 30 odd years of awesome with it’s lingering pt4 potential. Let some other schmo take the next period of sad retread hack ballsuck.
Without Raimi or Campbell, this will turn out as a generic horror flick indistinguishable from the one that comes out the following week.
Exactly what I was thinking. We’d get a few wisecracks and some Raimi-esque camera shots, but other than that, it’d be completely generic.
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