Sam Raimi Officially Directing Remake Of 1978 Evil Doll Flick 'MAGIC'

Released back in 1978, the film ‘Magic’ starred Sir Anthony Hopkins and was directed by Richard Attenborough which centered on an evil doll and some might say paved the way for Child’s Play (but that’s debatable). News has hit our desk that the film is getting the remake treatment with Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Army Of Darkness) set to direct!

Producer Roy Lee let it slip on the latest episode of Post Mortem with Mick Garris that he’s producing a new take on Magic, and Raimi – a huge fan of the original – is directing!

“I’ve only worked with [Sam Raimi] as a producer on films… actually… the first time I’m gonna work with him as a director is on a remake of Magic,” Roy Lee tells Mick Garris. “Which is something that we’re working on now. The Anthony Hopkins movie. We’re just actually hearing the final versions of the different takes from writers next week.”

“[Sam] loved the original movie and the book written by William Goldman,” Lee adds.

In the original 1978 movie, based on Goldman’s book, “A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.”

Sam Raimi most recently directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel, a horror-heavy superhero movie that brought the Evil Dead mastermind back into the genre.

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