Raimi to Direct First Episode of New Series,
“Ash Vs. Evil Dead”
Bruce Campbell to Star as Title Character,
Ash
Starz announced today the greenlight of the network’s next
original series, the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror
film franchise The Evil Dead. The project reteams the original
filmmakers, director Sam Raimi, with longtime producing partner Rob
Tapert and star Bruce Campbell.
The STARZ Original series officially titled “Ash Vs. Evil Dead”
will be 10 half-hour episodes. Bruce Campbell will be reprising his
role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed
monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding
responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a
Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally
forced to face his demons –personal and literal. Destiny, it turns
out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil”
grip.
“Starz first worked with Sam and Rob on ‘Spartacus,’ and we are
thrilled to be back in business with them,” said Carmi Zlotnik,
Managing Director of Starz. “With Sam writing and directing and
Bruce Campbell returning to the screen, we are certain the show
will give Evil Dead fans around the world the fix they’ve been
craving.”
“Evil Dead has always been a blast. Bruce, Rob and I are
thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the next chapter in Ash’s
lame, but heroic saga. With his chainsaw arm and his ‘boomstick,’
Ash is back to kick some monster butt. And brother, this time
there’s a truckload of it,” said Sam Raimi.
“I'm really excited to bring this series to the Evil Dead fans
worldwide - it's going to be everything they have been clamoring
for: serious deadite ass-kicking and plenty of outrageous humor,”
said Bruce Campbell.
“STARZ has always been a great creative partner and we are
excited to be working with them on this project,” said Robert
Tapert.
Raimi will direct the first episode. “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” was
written by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi (Darkman, Army of Darkness, Drag
Me to Hell) and Tom Spezialy (“Chuck,” “Reaper,” “Desperate
Housewives”). Sam Raimi will also serve as executive producer,
along with Rob Tapert (Evil Dead, “Spartacus,” Xena: Warrior
Princess”) and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”). Ivan
Raimi will Co-Executive Produce and Aaron Lam (“Spartacus”) will
serve as producer.
The original Evil Dead film followed Ash and his friends who
travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release
demons intent on possessing the living. The film became an
international success and is critically lauded to this day as one
of the best horror movies of all time. It also spawned a media
franchise, including two sequels, as well as video games and comic
books and a recent reboot that grossed $97 million worldwide.
“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” project was packaged by CAA and Craig
Jacobson at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren,
Richman, Rush & Kaller. Marta Fernandez will serve as the
executive in charge at Starz.
The series will air on STARZ in 2015.
Starz will retain all domestic and international multiplatform
rights including television, home entertainment, and digital.
Sam Raimi Bio
Sam Raimi has directed one the industry’s most successful film
franchises ever—the blockbuster Spider-Man trilogy, which has
grossed over $2.5 billion at the global box office. All three films
reside in the industry’s top 30 highest grossing domestic pictures
of all time.
In addition to the franchise’s commercial success, Spider-Man
(2002) won that year’s People’s Choice Award as Favorite Motion
Picture, earned a pair of Oscar® nominations (for VFX and sound)
and also collected two GRAMMY® nominations (for Best Score and Chad
Kroeger’s song “Hero”). Spider-Man 2 (2004) won the Academy Award®
for Best Visual Effects (with two more nominations for Best Sound
and Sound Editing) and two BAFTA nominations (for VFX and sound),
among dozens of other honors.
Most recently, Raimi is known for directing Oz the Great and the
Powerful, starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and
Rachel Weisz. A prequel to one of Hollywood’s most beloved stories,
the film grossed just under $500 million dollars globally and
reinvigorated the world’s love for the L. Frank Baum series.
Apart from creating one of Hollywood’s landmark film series,
Raimi’s eclectic resume includes the gothic thriller The Gift,
starring Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear
and Giovanni Ribisi; the acclaimed suspense thriller A Simple Plan,
which starred Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda
(for which Thornton earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best
Supporting Actor and Scott B. Smith landed a nomination for Best
Adapted Screenplay); his baseball homage, For Love of the Game,
with Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston; the western The Quick and the
Dead, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe and
Gene Hackman; and the supernatural thriller, Drag Me to Hell, with
Alison Lohman and Justin Long.
Raimi began his career in his native Michigan after directing
his own Super 8 movies as a teenager. He left his studies at
Michigan State University to form Renaissance Pictures with future
producer Rob Tapert and their longtime friend, actor Bruce
Campbell, with whom he made his very first film, Within the Woods,
a short horror film they used to raise money to make a feature.
That resulting horror classic, The Evil Dead (1982), financed and
produced with investments from local business people and doctors,
became a hit at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and spawned a sequel,
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987), which, like the original,
showcased Raimi’s inventive, imaginative direction and offbeat
humor.
Raimi next turned to the fantasy genre, writing and directing
the comic book-inspired Darkman (1990), starring Liam Neeson and
Frances McDormand, then followed with 1993’s Army of Darkness, a
comic sword and sorcery fantasy starring Bruce Campbell.
The mid-’90s also found Raimi producing two telefilms (with
friend and partner Tapert) that would become the genesis of a pair
of highly popular syndicated series—“Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys” (on which he served as executive producer during the
program’s four-year run) and the successful companion series,
“Xena: Warrior Princess” which aired from 1995-2001. His television
work also includes executive producing the CBS series “American
Gothic” and the STARZ graphic sword and sandals series,
“Spartacus.”
Raimi’s work has also been a favorite on the film festival
circuit, with the filmmaker winning a Best Director honor for
Darkman at the 1990 Sitges-Catalonian Festival in Spain; the
Critics Award for Army of Darkness at the 1992 Fantasporto Festival
in Portugal; the Golden Raven, also for Army of Darkness, at the
1992 Brussels International Festival; and a Grand Prize nomination
for the same title at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in
France. Raimi has also won the Saturn Award twice (Spider-Man 2 and
Drag Me to Hell) from the Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and
Fantasy.
Rob Tapert Bio
Rob Tapert is the longstanding producing partner of acclaimed
director Sam Raimi. Tapert and Raimi have been working together
since they met
at Michigan State University where they formed
the Society for Creative Film Making. After producing the horror
cult classic The Evil Dead, Tapert continued to collaborate
with Raimi on Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn,
Darkman and Army of Darkness.
Tapert went on to serve as executive producer on the action
features Hard Target and Timecop, starring
Jean-Claude Van Damme. He also executive produced the long running
worldwide sensation TV series “Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys” and “Xena: Warrior Princess.”
Following success in television he returned to features to
executive produce Raimi’s suspense thriller The Gift, starring
Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves and the action western The
Quick and the Dead, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone
and Gene Hackman.
In 2002, Tapert and Raimi formed Ghost House Pictures with
Mandate Pictures. Ghost House was conceived to produce feature
films that would deliver great scares and offer horror fans a
thrill ride experience. Tapert has since produced a string of #1
box office hits that started with The Grudge, which grossed
$187 million world wide, and continued with Boogeyman, The
Messengers, 30 Days of Night, The
Possession and Evil Dead. In 2009, Tapert produced
Raimi's first directorial effort under Ghost House: the critically
acclaimed Drag Me To Hell. Tapert recently
produced “Spartacus” for STARZ. He’s currently producing
the remake of Poltergeist for MGM and Fox 2000.
Bruce Campbell Bio
In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert,
Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead, in
which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal
over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where
it became the best-selling video of 1983, beating out The Shining.
After its appearance at Cannes, where Stephen King dubbed it “the
most ferociously original horror film of the year,” New Line Cinema
stepped forward to release The Evil Dead in the U.S. After
co-producing Crimewave, a cross-genre comedy written by Sam Raimi,
Ethan and Joel Coen, Campbell moved to Los Angeles and quickly
gained a foothold producing or starring in genre films such as the
Maniac Cop series, Lunatics: A Love Story, Moontrap and Mindwarp, a
post-apocalyptic Jeremiah Johnson, during which he met his
wife-to-be, filmmaker, Ida Gearon.
Campbell then rejoined his Detroit colleagues to star and
co-produce the second and third films in the The Evil Dead trilogy,
completing 12 years of work on the cult favorite. This
rough-and-tumble background was a plus as Campbell made his foray
into television, first starring in the highly touted Fox series
“The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr.,” then as a recurring
guest-star on the hit show “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman.”
With these under his belt, Campbell easily made the transition
to director, helming numerous episodes and recurring as the “King
of Thieves” in the #1 syndicated “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”
and its follow-up phenomenon, “Xena: Warrior Princess.”
Bruce has since expanded his range on television, with
appearances in Disney's TV movies “Gold Rush,” and their update of
“The Love Bug.” He teamed up with Fox again for the hit TV film
“Tornado!” and starred in NBC's top-rated “In The Line of Duty:
Blaze of Glory.” Following decidedly dramatic turns on the
acclaimed series “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “The X-Files,”
he enjoyed a recurring role on Showtime’s edgy TV industry comedy,
“Beggars and Choosers.”
At the invitation of ABC, Campbell ventured into the world of
sitcoms with a recurring role on ABC's Emmy-nominated “Ellen,”
participating in one of the three touted “out” episodes.
But Campbell didn't abandon his film roots. During that time, he
had featured roles in the blockbuster Congo, John Carpenter's
Escape From LA, and the award-winning independent crime drama,
Running Time. He followed these up with roles in Paramount's
romantic comedy, Serving Sara, Jim Carrey's The Majestic, and all
three of Sam Raimi's blockbuster Spider-Man movies.
After a return to episodic television in the swashbuckling
series “Jack of All Trades,” Campbell took the title role in MGM's
cult sleeper Bubba Ho-tep. His directorial debut, “Man with the
Screaming Brain” premiered on the Sci Fi Channel, and Dark Horse
Comics published the comic adaptation.
Campbell has since made the leap into other forms of
entertainment, and is enjoying his role as an author with
back-to-back New York Times bestsellers: a memoir entitled If Chins
Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, and his first novel,
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way.
In the multi-media industry, Campbell provided voices on cutting
edge video games for Activision, THQ and Nova Logic - and he also
enjoyed voicing characters for Disney’s animated TV series Tarzan
and the Warner Brothers feature The Ant Bully. He also voiced the
character of Mayor Shelbourne in the animated hit film Cloudy With
a Chance of Meatballs. In 2011, Campbell voiced the role of Rod
Torque Redline in Cars 2, the sequel to the smash Disney animated
feature.
Most recently, Campbell directed and starred as himself in My
Name is Bruce, a spoof of his B-movie career, then re-teamed with
Disney for their fun-filled hit, Sky High.
In 2013, Bruce Co-Produced the hit remake of Evil Dead, joined
his filmmaking pal Sam Raimi on Oz, The Great and Powerful, and
completed an impressive seven-year run on spy show Burn Notice,
USA’s #1 show on cable.
Campbell continues to share his acting and filmmaking
experiences by lecturing at universities, including Northwestern,
Carnegie Mellon and Stanford.
He currently resides with his wife, Ida Gearon, in Oregon.
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