The Evil Dead to be remade

Raekwon · 22-06-2007 1:23pm #1

What do you people think about this proposed remake of a cult classic???

Apparently this has got the green light and it is now in post production through Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures company. Raimi is set to write & produce the remake but no director or lead actor have been confirmed yet (although Nicholas Brendon from Buffy is rumoured to be the new Ash).

IMO this is a complete and utter joke. I know that the big wigs in Hollywood are obviously short of original concepts but remaking everything in sight is not the answer and will probably only tarnish and already bled dry franchise (especially without Raimi directing & Bruce Campbell as Ash).

Brow · 22-06-2007 2:56pm

I'll wait for a teaser or something til i really pass judgement but a while ago when I heard Ashton Kutcher was up for the part of Ash I got a shiver down my spine.

projectmayhem · 22-06-2007 3:05pm

what's the point? the original looks and feels great right now! make army of darkness2 with the budget raimi can now demand and everyone's a winner!

Duggy747 · 22-06-2007 4:02pm

projectmayhem wrote:

what's the point? the original looks and feels great right now! make army of darkness2 with the budget raimi can now demand and everyone's a winner!

Exactly, leave the greats alone...........bah, what are we talking about? We just gonna whinge about this until our throats hurt while they go ahead and release it? I'm all out of energy ranting about remakes after they decimated the sanctity of The Hitcher.............just thinking of that makes my blood boil!!

galactus · 22-06-2007 4:07pm

Duggy747 wrote:

Exactly, leave the greats alone...........bah, what are we talking about? We just gonna whinge about this until our throats hurt while they go ahead and release it? I'm all out of energy ranting about remakes after they decimated the sanctity of The Hitcher.............just thinking of that makes my blood boil!!

Yeah that original Hitcher was a classic. The first time I saw it I was watching it with a buddy and we hit pause and made some chips. Chips made, pressed play, as we were eating our chips.... :eek:

I'd like to add The remake of the Wicker Man to the list as well.

Necronomicon · 22-06-2007 4:15pm

I'm looking forward to this.

Raimi has been quoted as saying that Zach Snyder's interpretation of Dawn Of The Dead was his inspiration for wanting Evil Dead remade. And why not? I bet a lot of the people who criticised the Dawn remake before it came out thought it was terrific. The director stamped his own footprint on the movie and made it his own - the result was a vastly different movie to the original, but very good on its own merit. If something similar was done with The Evil Dead, I'd be delighted. Plus, with Raimi writing and producing I'd be fairly optimistic that it won't be a pile of crap.

madrab · 22-06-2007 4:26pm

Necromomicon wrote:

I'm looking forward to this.

Raimi has been quoted as saying that Zach Snyder's interpretation of Dawn Of The Dead was his inspiration for wanting Evil Dead remade. And why not? I bet a lot of the people who criticised the Dawn remake before it came out thought it was terrific. The director stamped his own footprint on the movie and made it his own - the result was a vastly different movie to the original, but very good on its own merit. If something similar was done with The Evil Dead, I'd be delighted. Plus, with Raimi writing and producing I'd be fairly optimistic that it won't be a pile of crap.

cough...spiderman 3...cough...tobey dancing...cough

Necronomicon · 22-06-2007 4:30pm

madrab wrote:

cough...spiderman 3...cough...tobey dancing...cough

I still haven't seen it

qwertplaywert · 22-06-2007 5:49pm

lucky you

hope this doesnt get made, cant see it being good, but if it is made, maybe kutcher would be good for the role.

johnny_ultimate · 22-06-2007 6:15pm

qwertplaywert wrote:

lucky you

hope this doesnt get made, cant see it being good, but if it is made, maybe kutcher would be good for the role.

Ashton Kutcher replacing Bruce Campbell???? Excuse my overuse of question marks, but that suggestion makes me cry.
Bruce Campbell makes the Evil Dead films. His charm, along with the aged special effects and oddness, make the films feel fresh and exciting even today. No need for a remake, IMO.

ixoy · 22-06-2007 6:34pm

No need for a remake because you can't remake Bruce's performance. Other elements, sure are open to re-interpretation but I feel that Bruce's charisma suits Ash perfectly.

As a result of this news, Sam Raimi is banned from the Films forum for two weeks.

22-06-2007 8:28pm

Is nothing sacred anymore!

Karl Hungus · 22-06-2007 9:11pm

To be fair, while Zack Snyder's Dawn Of The Dead was an excellent film, you can hardly hold that up as example of current remakes. It's the exception to the rule, and it would be silly to assume otherwise.

I'm not really looking forward to this, but so many classics have already been butchered beyond believe, I can't really seem to find the indignation to be outraged by this.

Deleted User wrote:

Is nothing sacred anymore!

Quite frankly, no.

22-06-2007 9:19pm

I read somewhere they want to remake the thing. They will butcher this too. One of my favourite horror films. Hollywood these days, what a travesty.

22-06-2007 9:51pm

Bruce said that an Evil Dead 4 is still on the cards. Raimi has been on about making it for the past few years and I for one would kill to see another with Bruce.

They Call Me Bruce is being released later this year, and early word is good. The film concers a small Oregon town besieged by monsters and the towns people turn to Bruce for help, as they believe that he is really Ash. A sequel has been mentioned and if the first film is a success it will be shot some time next year.

It seems that Bruce may not be starring in Bubba Nosferatu and the Curse of the She-Vampires. I know the film is only in the early stages of prepreduction but I can't see the film working without Bruce as Elvis.

ixoy · 22-06-2007 10:04pm

Deleted User wrote:

I read somewhere they want to remake the thing. They will butcher this too. One of my favourite horror films. Hollywood these days, what a travesty.

A terrible example of an argument against remakes as the 'The Thing' is a remake in itself

Necronomicon · 22-06-2007 10:19pm

Karl Hungus wrote:

To be fair, while Zack Snyder's Dawn Of The Dead was an excellent film, you can hardly hold that up as example of current remakes. It's the exception to the rule, and it would be silly to assume otherwise.

I quite liked Alexandre Aja's remake of The Hills Have Eyes as well.

Er....I can't think of anymore right now. But still, I wouldn't walk into this cringing. I'd be hopeful that Sam Raimi wouldn't ruin his own masterpiece.

If Evil Dead 4 comes out of development hell, though, I'll be doing cartwheels.

Beelzebub · 22-06-2007 10:28pm

How about this for a title: The Evil Dead - Resurrected!

One of the problems I have with remakes is that the most of the current generation - read those who haven't seen the original and best version - usually, won't know how crap the remake/butchered version is.

And so standards continue to plummet.

23-06-2007 12:13pm

ixoy wrote:

A terrible example of an argument against remakes as the 'The Thing' is a remake in itself

Yeah, but I think its a really good remake, scared me s***less first time I saw it. The original just made me laugh. Point is, there is no need to do it again as John Carpenter got it right.

Wacker · 23-06-2007 12:55pm

Necromomicon wrote:

I quite liked Alexandre Aja's remake of The Hills Have Eyes as well.

Er....I can't think of anymore right now. But still, I wouldn't walk into this cringing. I'd be hopeful that Sam Raimi wouldn't ruin his own masterpiece.

If Evil Dead 4 comes out of development hell, though, I'll be doing cartwheels.

His own masterpiece? Surely that is Evil Dead II? I don't think all thqat much of the first one actually. The second one is classic, and Army of Darkness would have been the best if it had a bigger budget. Ash is totally hilarious in it.
Am I alone here?

Karl Hungus · 23-06-2007 4:37pm

Wacker wrote:

His own masterpiece? Surely that is Evil Dead II? I don't think all thqat much of the first one actually. The second one is classic, and Army of Darkness would have been the best if it had a bigger budget. Ash is totally hilarious in it.
Am I alone here?

Probably not alone, Evil Dead II is a classic, no doubt about it, as is Army Of Darkness, but the first one is still fantatic, and easily the most pure horror of the 3. Still freaked me out a lot the last time I saw it.

faceman · 23-06-2007 8:10pm

this is old news OP. Bruce campbell already said he wasnt interested and told Raimi that there was to be no Ash character in it as Ash was his baby! (to which raimi agreed!!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434020/

google evil dead remake and you find plenty of articles includes interviews with our boy bruce

johnny_ultimate · 23-06-2007 8:54pm

Wacker wrote:

His own masterpiece? Surely that is Evil Dead II? I don't think all thqat much of the first one actually. The second one is classic, and Army of Darkness would have been the best if it had a bigger budget. Ash is totally hilarious in it.
Am I alone here?

My favourite is the first one. Really did disturb me. I know some people laugh it off but seriously some of the stuff in that film is seriously creepy. The 2nd one is of course extremely enjoyable. Interestingly (or not), I didnt like the 3rd one when I watched it - but I saw it before the others and wrote it off as cheesy. Really need to rewatch it with my relatively recent Bruce Campbell / Evil Dead love intact.

StarryBud · 23-06-2007 9:43pm

The first one was rubbish, the second one is a masterpiece and the third one is good.

Did you know Sam Raimi is a George W. Bush supporter?
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Sam_Raimi.php

Do you really want to support the films of a man who supports Bush?

23-06-2007 10:05pm

StarryBud wrote:

The first one was rubbish, the second one is a masterpiece and the third one is good.

All three films are excellent. The second is my favourite, for the simple reason that I regard it as being the funniest film ever as well as being a great horror film. It's not a horror comedy, but rather a horror film with comedic elements, much like the films of Joe Dante and John Landis. The first film is a great piece of horror cinema. How you can call it rubbish is beyond me. Every aspect of the production was troubled, yet the finished film stands up in every department nearly thirty years later. Not many films can say that.

StarryBud wrote:

Did you know Sam Raimi is a George W. Bush supporter?
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Sam_Raimi.php

Do you really want to support the films of a man who supports Bush?

Does anyone really care? It's like Mel Gibson and that incident. People going on about how we should boycott his films because of his antisemetic remarks. You don't judge the artist you judge their work. Plus I'm pretty sure a large portion of Hollywood also supports Bush. Just look at the great John Millius, Republican through and through and responsiable for many great films.

qwertplaywert · 24-06-2007 12:07pm

so you wouldnt pay taxes to a gov you didnt support?

qwertplaywert · 09-08-2007 6:49pm

anyone else think it if does goe ahead, Nathon Fillion would be ideal for the lead role?

Galvasean · 09-08-2007 7:26pm

Lets let them make it... and then avoid it.

irishash · 09-08-2007 8:24pm

StarryBud wrote:

The first one was rubbish, the second one is a masterpiece and the third one is good.

Did you know Sam Raimi is a George W. Bush supporter?
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Sam_Raimi.php

Do you really want to support the films of a man who supports Bush?

on that link it shows that he contributed around $900 to the bush campaign. And around $450 to a republican candidate in the 96 election. $2400 to the DAG and $1000 to a democratic senator.

wow - he gives money to political parties......lets burn him at the stake !!!

serriously, if you look at that and come away thinking he is the most avid fan of george w, then you have a strange way of looking at things. and who cares anyway.

as to the topic - evil dead is undeniably one of the greatest horror films ever made - struck the right balance between chills, suspense, gore and shocks (the tree rape is never forgotten). a remake is disappointing news, but like all these things, i will wait and see.

but if this is a success the chances of an evil dead 4 are greater. rem that after dawn of the dead remake, land of the dead was greenlit.

The Evil Dead to be remade

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