The original Sam Raimi-directed horror classic will screen in cinemas this October.
“There’s always a difference between when the movie actually got shot and when it came out.
But it’s fun to celebrate it!”
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The Evil Deadwill screen in theaters on Oct. 7 with an exclusive introduction by Campbell.
“Yeah, that’s the rumor,” the actor says with a laugh.
“I’m going to film that at a drive-in coming up in the next day or two.
I think it’s a good opportunity to look back and be grateful that it hung around this long.
People still seem to want to watch it, they still seem to enjoy it.
It’s on to the next generation now.
It’s not even the original fans.
Their children have been introduced to it now.
So it’s my job just to keep perpetuating it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What is the ideal preparation for watchingThe Evil Deadon the big screen?
If you have not seen it, not much will prepare you for it!
It is an unrated movie, so you have to be prepared for that.
There are elements that some people would find very disturbing.
It is 100 percent.
Each movie of the three is weirdly different.
In the second one, we injected a little bit of humor.
I call that “splatstick.”
It’s our version of The Vikings, that movie.
We wanted to make a low-budget epic and adventure movie.
So the movies are very hard to compare because they’re very strange and different.
Can you remember the first time you sawThe Evil Deadon the big screen?
We used to watch likeBridge on the River Kwaiand big movies shown there in our formative years.
So we thought we have to showEvil Deadat that theater.
It was very fun to show it.
The house was packed.
It’s fun to see a thousand people jump in their seats.
There is a newEvil Deadmovie on the way,Evil Dead Rise.
How involved in that are you?
What can you tell us about the film?
So he hand-picked him like he had picked Fede Alvarez (for 2013’sEvil Dead).
People can actually call it what [they] want: Sequel, remake, reimagining.
It really is just anotherEvil Deadmovie.
It’s all about [theNecronomicon].
Where does this book wind up and what happens to it over the millennia?
In this case, it’s set in the city, it’s no more cabin in the woods.
It’s entirely different, unsuspecting heroines who are going to save the day.
Rob Tapert is the hands-on producer and we’re all very involved in the script.
We all jump in at various times to chime in.
But, yeah, the three of us are very involved.
You previously announced that you’ve retired from playing Ash onscreen.
So you won’t be appearing in it?
I won’t be appearing in it, no.
Iwillbe in the upcomingEvil Deadgame, which I think is due for February 2022.
I just finished the voice for that.
I’ve got to say, I’m pleasantly surprised by the game.
I’ve seen the gameplay and it’s finally like any great game that’s out there.
TheEvil Dead, we’ve had three, four or so games in the past.
Everything in it is exactly what gamers expect as far as quality.
Some people I think probably want to play the crabby, older, trash-talking Ash.
I think most gamers will go, yeah, this was worth the wait.
The rumor is that you are inDoctor Strange 2.
I would say that’s a pretty good rumor.
I think that won’t get me sued.
That’s a pretty good rumor, yeah.
Can you say anything else?
If Sam wants a good movie he’ll put me in it.
and then they go, “Where were you, idiot?”
But I always enjoy working with my old friend, Mr. Director.
What else do you have coming out?
It’s funny, I’ve been working during the pandemic.
I did five different projects during the pandemic, some of its television.
And there’s a movie called Black Friday that will be coming out before too long.
It’s a drive-in kind of movie.
And there’s a show calledA.P.
Glenn Howerton is the lead guy and I come in to play his father.
It’s fun to do television again.
Television is where I feel comfortable, the pace of it, there’s great writing in television now.
My industry, thank god, has come back from the dead.
We were deemed non-essential, but now I feel very essential.
Because, look, everybody watched everything during the pandemic!
There’s nothing left to watch!
So I’m happy to help.
Watch a trailer forThe Evil Deadabove.
