Evil Dead 4 may happen

richymcdermott

With my mixed feelings about the evil dead remake i was happy to see sam raimi come out and say he is pretty much working on evil dead 4

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/03/02/say-what-sam-raimi-to-pen-evil-dead-4?abthid=513144c09fe8fddd7c00001e

hope bruce cambell is apart of this , i dont care if he is old MAKE I HAPPEN SAM

Duggy747

Evil Dead 4 has been "happening" for years now. Unless there's something official I'd take what he says with a pinch of salt.

Still, would like to see it happen, ol' Brucey is getting on in years to take another round of beatings :pac:

johnny_ultimate

I like the series and all, but dare I suggest we should simply be happy with what we have? I don't subscribe to the notion that we need to revisit, remake, redo and generally sequalize every beloved Hollywood series - unless Raimi et al. have a truly great idea they just have to bring to the screen, just leave Ash rest. How many great series have had their name tarnished by a redundant sequel(s)? Heck, even Army of Darkness, for all its silly pleasures (and I enjoyed it overall), is a lesser film than the two that came before.

We don't 'need' a third sequel. Let's just be happy with what we got. If they do ever follow up on threats of continuing onwards, let's hope they have a damn good justification for doing so.

Necronomicon

^ Die Hard springs immediately to mind.

That said, along with apprehension there'll be a sliver of optimism for me; he showed with Drag Me to Hell that he hasn't lost the ability to deliver the sort of quirky fusion between horror and slapstick humour that made us all fall in love with The Evil Dead in the first place.

Mickeroo

This has been a bit of a holy grail for me for a long time. Would rather it gets made even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

I would imagine it will follow on from the director's cut ending of Army of Darkness.

johnny_ultimate

Necronomicon wrote: »

That said, along with apprehension there'll be a sliver of optimism for me; he showed with Drag Me to Hell that he hasn't lost the ability to deliver the sort of quirky fusion between horror and slapstick humour that made us all fall in love with The Evil Dead in the first place.

I thoroughly enjoyed Drag Me To Hell, and that's the kind of project I'd love to see Raimi do more of - new ideas that nonetheless retain his trademark style and bold slapstick energy. Sequels come laden with expectations that are often impossible to reasonably live up to. I'd much rather directors spend their time on unique new projects that nonetheless revisit or build on past form / style.

pixelburp

When has a 4th film in a franchise ever been any good? I have to say Raimi has gone down a little in my estimations with this news: it's clearly motivated by greed & the desire to profit from both the original trilogy's legacy & goodwill, as well as the increased exposure the reboot will doubtless generate (if there hasn't already been one, I guarantee a 'new' version of the films will appear on DVD / Blu-Ray)

don ramo

so what is to be made of the evil dead film coming out next month, raimi and campbell are down as producers, and apparently raimi hand picked the director,

this news of a 4th film id say is only to generate talk about evil dead(2013) and get people into the cinema next month,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead_%282013_film%29

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

When has a 4th film in a franchise ever been any good? I have to say Raimi has gone down a little in my estimations with this news: it's clearly motivated by greed & the desire to profit from both the original trilogy's legacy & goodwill, as well as the increased exposure the reboot will doubtless generate (if there hasn't already been one, I guarantee a 'new' version of the films will appear on DVD / Blu-Ray)

The new Universal Soldier, the fourt or sixth in the series depending on how you look at it is the best entry in the franchise to date. The last Fast and the Furious, number five in the series was by far the best of them and the last Final Destination was a hell of a lot of fun.

I'd be sceptical of another Evil Dead but Campbell is always good and Raimi knows how to make excessive violent into goofy fun. I still think that the series lost its self with part 3, the scene near the end where Ash ran away only to return moments later and save the day kinda turned him from reluctant, cowardly imbecile into bonafide hero and as such he was a lot less fun. Really think that when he ran off he should have been found cowering somewhere while women and children fought his fight for him.

delbertgrady

pixelburp wrote: »

When has a 4th film in a franchise ever been any good?

Not a franchise as such, but Bed and Board or L'Amour En Fuite, both part of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series. Either one qualifies as the fourth film, depending on whether you count the character's appearance in an earlier short or not.

WAY off topic... :rolleyes:

Necronomicon

Another thought just struck me: surely it makes little sense to do Evil Dead 4 hot off the heels of the Evil Dead remake. You have to think that a lot of the cinema-going public, sad as it is to say, won't be familiar with the franchise; so they'll probably take the remake as an original premise. To then go from The Evil Dead to Evil Dead 4, with Ash reprising his role having not been in the remake, things might get a bit confused.