"We have a new filmmaker that Sam Raimi has hand chosen, so he's very involved in it..."
A hand picked new filmmaker like Fede Alvarez? And Sam is very involved in this like he was supposed to be very involved in AvED?
Yeah, thanks, Bruce, but I think I'll pass on this one. Either Sam Raimi comes back as both writer and director and this is a film he personally wants to make or I'm simply not interested anymore.
I think they need to do something else than just repeating the story of the cabin. It's enough. There's so much thing to explore...
According to the press release
They're supposed to be moving the setting to an 'urban' one."
The notion of uprooting Evil Dead from the wilderness and sticking it in an urban setting (which was what Fede wanted to do with his ED2 sequel, which makes me wonder if they cannibalized that idea to make this one) is going to take a lot of fancy footwork
According to the press release
They're supposed to be moving the setting to an 'urban' one."
The notion of uprooting Evil Dead from the wilderness and sticking it in an urban setting (which was what Fede wanted to do with his ED2 sequel, which makes me wonder if they cannibalized that idea to make this one) is going to take a lot of fancy footwork
About the urban setting, Why am I thinking Die Hard with deadites....? I just hope they won't try to do "a modern take" of the story in a smart home, you know what i mean...
I guess Sam Raimi is done too with the Evil Dead franchise since he just announced his new movie which is...an horror movie...
https://www.slashfilm.com/new-sam-raimi-horror-movie/
The project look promising but...Why did he not direct the new Evil Dead movie?...
If you look back at my commentary on the 1st season of AvED you'll see that one of the specific things that was really rubbing me off the wrong way about the show washow urban, open and ordinary most of the environments felt. I really have no interest in seeing deadites loose in a big city full of people and I think isolation is a very important aspect of that Evil Dead feel that's so hard to pin down. Even in Army of Darkness, Ash is alone in the wilderness for most of the second act and even during the siege there's a sense of claustrophobia and isolation to the whole thing, even if the setting is of a much larger scale. I know they can still focus the narrative and find ways to make even a big city feel isolated, claustrophobic and eerie, but I can't help but think the real reason they're moving to an "urban setting" isn't really a creative one, but just that it makes it that much easier and cheaper to produce.
You guys are nuts if you think it's cheaper and easier to shoot an industry film on location in urban environments than it is to shoot on a single set on a sound stage.
And, for the record, when shooting on location, you never "take the location as it is". Even the no-budget Evil Dead boys spent weeks prepping the cabin before they actually started shooting, wasting incredible amounts of footage shooting car scenes while they waited for the cabin to be finished.
You guys are nuts if you think it's cheaper and easier to shoot an industry film on location in urban environments than it is to shoot on a single set on a sound stage.
And, for the record, when shooting on location, you never "take the location as it is". Even the no-budget Evil Dead boys spent weeks prepping the cabin before they actually started shooting, wasting incredible amounts of footage shooting car scenes while they waited for the cabin to be finished.
Depends on if you go dogme 95 or not with the environment.
Now I'm imagining what a dogme 95-style Evil Dead would look like.
RE spoilers:
They wanted this one to be funny as well. So funny "like Evil Dead 2" in Bruce's words + urban environment.