SXSW opened last week to a hugely popular start with the world premiere of Sony’s Evil Dead. After the screening, co-writer and director, Fede Alvarez, stated: “We already started writing Evil Dead 2.” They must be pretty confident with their product seeing how the first one hasn’t hit theaters yet. Bruce Campbell, star of the original Evil Dead trilogy and now producer of the remake, was at the screening as well to explain why he wasn’t in the film: “I wasn’t in this for a really good reason, and I probably won’t be in the others for a really good reason… We wanted these to be completely separate. I hope one day you can go to a movie theater and watch the first three, and then the second three, and enjoy them all.”
2013’s Evil Dead sees a new, female main character portrayed by Jane Levy. Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas (Cult), Lou Taylor Pucci, and Elizabeth Blackmore make up the rest of the tortured cast. I’m super excited to hear that this new Evil Dead sticks primarily to practical effects rather than CGI.-it just makes the gore feel more real when it is real. Imagine that! I wonder if the new cast went home every day after shooting covered in as much crap as Bruce Campbell did when he filmed the originals!
Campbell gave his blessing for the remake at Fan Days Convention in Dallas several months back. Evil Dead swallows your soul in theaters April 5, 2013.
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