Talking to Comicbook, Fede Alvarez shed light on his plans for the Evil Dead 2 and whether there is any hope for the film actually being made.
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But Alvarez chose to make the low-budget horror Don't Breathe instead of Evil Dead 2, and since then, the movie has been in development hell. But what about the sequel to the 2013 film starring Jane Levy?įans have been demanding a follow-up movie to the Fede Alvarez directed Evil Dead remake for a long time, and at one point, it looked like a real possibility too, with plans to merge the narratives of Levy's Mia Allen and Campbell's Ash Williams. And now another movie, Evil Dead Rise, is in the making with franchise creator Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell as producers.
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Its success resulted in a TV series Ash vs Evil Dead starring Bruce Campbell, which premiered on Starz in 2015 and ran for three seasons.
Evil Dead was well received by the audience and grossed $97.5 million at the box office on a modest budget of $17 million. Nearly all of this is explained on the commentary track of Evil Dead II.It has been eight years since 2013's Evil Dead remake resurrected the iconic 80's horror franchise. This is the sole explanation for the film’s reshot opening, and it is far from the first sequel to have to reshoot footage because the rights to the original feature had been lost. So they decided only to use Ash and Linda and focus on the major emotional highpoint of The Evil Dead, which was Linda’s possession. Bringing back all of the characters from the first would have not only been expensive, given that they would be hiring the actors for a very short amount of time, but would have been convoluted as they would have had to retread the whole story beat-for-beat in a span of roughly seven minutes. Different distributors had come in to release Evil Dead in both theatrical and home video formats and Raimi simply didn’t have the rights to any footage of the first feature. However, the reasons for the opening sequence are very simple.ĭirector Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert and company made Evil Dead II at a different production company than the first and did so for virtually no money. For whatever reason, the opening of this feature doesn’t sit right with most viewers and leads them to view it as something other than what it actually is. This is so strange to me because, even though the actress is different, the character’s name remains the same. As perplexing as it is, there are people who actually believe that Ash returned to the cabin with a different girl. The antics at the cabin and the retelling of Linda’s possession are not in any way an attempt to remake the first movie. The second installment in the Evil Dead franchise does what every great sequel should, it works as both a follow up and a standalone effort.
However, for maximum enjoyment, one should view the films back to back to see just how well Evil Dead II works together with its predecessor. It is a self-contained story and doesn’t require viewing the first in order to appreciate it. Make no mistake: I do not mean to say that Evil Dead II doesn’t stand on its own, because it does. It’s a natural progression given the amount he has been through and doesn’t work as well without having the first film to set it up, as Ash was not nearly as hyper-masculinized in Evil Dead as he becomes in the second and third installments. Ash spends the first 60 minutes of the second movie in a cocoon of hysterical panic before being able to finally emerge as a hero in the third act. In the first half of the sequel, he seems just as surprised as anyone else that he managed to live. He was a nervous, quiet type in the original, not the sort one generally expects to survive. The Ash character has progressed as well.