Lilly Collins had the coveted role of the lead in the Evil Dead remake. I know, I know, somehow her inclusion didn’t find it’s way onto TMB in the first place and I’ll take that one but now we’re finding out that she’s had the dreaded “scheduling conflict” that actors and and actresses tend to suffer.
Source: Collider
Fede Alvarez‘ remake of Sam Raimi‘s The Evil Dead has lost its star. While things looked to be moving quickly, Variety’s Jeff Sneider now reports that Lily Collins has had to withdraw from the project due to scheduling issues. The only other project on her slate (that we know of) is the adaptation of The Mortal Instruments, so it’s possible that the shooting schedule for that film is the culprit.
It appears that not a single person in Hollywood consults their calenders prior to agreeing to participate in films. Don’t they have ‘people’ for that? Regardless, as much as I would have enjoyed seeing Colling in this film it’s a more enticing gamble to get involved with a project that has the potential for sequels. The novels on which The Mortal Instruments is based already has quite a few books that are screaming for adaptation so she chose what worked best for her career. Good for her. Hopefully that Mirror Mirror movie with her and Julia Roberts also does well and she learns to stay away from Taylor Lautner.
Now, who’s taking on this role in Evil Dead? Who do we even WANT to take this role?
I don’t understand Hollywood’s almost maniacal need to remake, oops sorry, reboot, everything.
Sure, I know, remakes are almost as old as Hollywood itself, with them being done even during the silent era as early as 1895 according to IMDB. But, even given as long as the remake has been around, it has never really been as noticable as now. over the last few years, and the next few at least, it has reached almost over saturation levels. Even movies that, basically, sucked (House Party, Pet Semetary, Barbarella, Drop Dead Fred to name just a few) are being remade. Why? What happened to the idea of original? Has Hollywood so run out of ideas that they are beginning to give up on originality, and are going to try make their money off the sentimentality of their audiences?