Bruce Campbell Says Next Years EVIL DEAD: RISE Will Be "Dark" And "Pretty Serious"
It’s been a good 10yrs since we saw an Evil Dead film in theaters. Director Lee Cronin is serving up a brand new chapter to the Evil Dead franchise with Evil Dead: Rise.
Evil Dead: Rise has already completed filming and the film is slated for a release sometime next year.
Today, our friends over at BlairWitch.De chatted with Bruce Campbell about the new film and he gave some great insights into what fans can expect. Oh, and just so we’re clear, Campbell is NOT in the film but is acting as a producer for the new flick.
Official Synopsis:
“In the fifth Evil Dead film, a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.”
“[The film will be] different, this one’s dark, this one’s pretty serious,” Campbell tells BlairWitch.De. “Good, strong performances. It’s a single mom who now has to deal with this book [of the dead]. These days it’s more about the book. That book gets around… handed around, passed along. People try to get rid of it, they try to bury it or destroy it, and they really can’t. So this book just keeps popping up. So it’s really just another story of what happens if this book appears in this particular group of peoples’ lives and how it intersects.”
Campbell continues, “Lee Cronin is a very serious man. He’s a very serious director. He’s a very atmospheric director. It’s gonna be really good. We’ve seen a rough [cut] of it already. It has all the components that we need, it just needs… like anything… it has to be tightened. But we’re in good shape. We let him have a lot of creative leeway. But the basics stay the same. The book, the possession, the rules of how you get rid of ’em. Every new heroine or hero has to learn how to dispel the evil.”
“This family is not the same at the end of the movie. They’re gutted. The whole family’s destroyed. These people get possessed – brothers, sisters, sons, daughters. It’s a family affair. This one’s a family affair. They’re all related in this one. I think that makes the possession and killing your siblings, things like that, even harder.”
Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The End) and Nell Fisher (Splendid Isolation) will star in the new movie alongside Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan.
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are taking over producer roles for this flick and we have it on good authority that they were HEAVILY involved with the films progress and style.
