Sam Raimi and his original producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell (who also starred in the franchise) will remake their cult hit “The Evil Dead.” The film will be made through the team’s long standing Ghost House Pictures partnership.
The film is set to be written and directed by Fede Alvarez, who directed the short film “Panic Attack.” In fact, Tapert and Raimi were so impressed with Alvarez that the two set up a blind deal with Alvarez, which resulted in him writing and directing the film.
Raimi, Tapert and Campbell will serve as producers and Ghost House Pictures partners Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Nicole Brown and J.R. Young will oversee “The Evil Dead” for Ghost House and Lionsgate will handle international sales on the film.
“We are committed to making this movie and are inspired by the enduring popularity and enthusiasm for the ‘Evil Dead’ series,” said Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell in a joint statement. “We can’t wait to scare a new generation of moviegoers using filmmaking techniques that were not available to us thirty years ago as well as Fede bringing a fresh eye to the film’s original elements.”
Here’s some of the history behind the film as well as the synopsis:
Raimi wrote, directed and, along with Tapert and Campbell, produced the original horror classic “The Evil Dead” that tells the story of five twenty-something friends who become holed up in a remote cabin where they discover a Book Of The Dead. An archaeologist’s tape recording reveals that the ancient text was discovered among the Khandarian ruins of a Sumerian civilization. Playing the taped incantations, the youths unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival. “The Evil Dead” spawned a franchise with the equally successful installments “Evil Dead II” and “Army of Darkness.”
