ZOMG! Sam Raimi is remaking Evil Dead I !!!

[Shardik]

No one will ever be able to recreate Bruce Campbell's Ash with his boomstick. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434020/

[mcctatas]

1. Why on earth would he do that?

you don't fuck with perfection!

[Shardik]

2. I have no idea.

It's like trying to remake Citizen Kane.

[Chan790]

3. Wasn't Evil Dead II in some sense already a remake of The Evil Dead.

Both films start from the same plot-point (Ash turns on a tape recorder of the professor translating the Book of the Dead (Necronomicon XMortis). The translation releases deadites who immediately take over one companion then stalk him and the rest of his cabin mates.) and follow more or less similar plots from there out. It's not really a sequel, it starts from the same moment in time and not subsequent to the earlier film.

So...really. We're getting a third version of the same general story. Nice. Only Sam Raimi could get away with that. They really need to bring back Bruce Campbell though...if not as Ash then in a cameo.

[redqueen]

4. Yes.

The first one was less comedy/horror and more just horror, that was the biggest difference.

The second was better than the first... wonder if they can pull that off again.

[mcctatas]

5. And 'Army of Darkness' was the best movie EVER!

[NJmaverick]

6. For me the first one was funnier, it's just that it wasn't intended to be

more like Plan 9 funny.

[NewJeffCT]

7. Who can replace Bruce Campbell as Ash?

That's like replacing Anthony Perkins in Psycho, or Arnold in The Terminator, or Sigourney Weaver in Aliens.

[DS1]

8. What a loser

[Algorem]

9. what was that shotgun that bruce campbell used in that one flick?

because i have some crackhead "neighbors" around here who i might need one for.

[Symarip]

10. From what I read online, Ash will not be a character in the remake

Which might work. If the remake recounts a bunch of kids going to the cabin (sans Ash) and they all die, it might still be fun and kind of 'work' in the timeline.

I've also read they have been working on a script for Evil Dead 4 for the last 2 years where Ash would be in the future (as per the original ending to The Army Of Darkness, aka Bruce Campbell vs. The Army of Darkness, aka The Medievil Dead).

[mcctatas]

13. You are a veritable font of useless but interesting information

;)

[rcrush]

11. If Bruce Campbell is not in this movie I will burn the theatre to the ground.

[Jamastiene]

12. I'll bring the marshmallows and kindling.

:fistbump:

It would be a crime against humanity if he's not in it.

[Lucian]

14. Maybe the movie will actually be good then.

[Tighelander]

15. Ash vs. Freddy vs Jason

There was some talk years ago of such a movie but nothing ever became of it.