Any chance that the next installment of the Evil Dead series was going to be coming out of the original creators heads looks to have been put to bed over at Screen Rant.
Over at IESB there’s a video interview with Bruce Campbell in which he stated that Sam Raimi is extremely busy with the Spiderman franchise and who knows when he’d have the time or inclination to do Evil Dead IV.
And in case you think he was just being coy for the interview, I have independent verification of this from a source who spoke with Tom Sullivan. Tom did special effects work on Evil Dead I, II and Army of Darkness and is a friend of Bruce.
So we’re stuck with the remake by another Director of the original Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell still has a great sense of humour about it all though:
He joked about having Ashton Kutcher direct and star in the remake, and that if Kutcher wasn’t available they’d try to get Ben Affleck, since Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson had already declined.
