Releasing in theaters this weekend, fifth franchise installment Evil Dead Rise opens up the saga beyond the cabin and beyond any characters we’re familiar with, introducing a brand new storyline centered around a brand new Book of the Dead. It would seem the possibilities with the franchise are limitless, and the idea well isn’t running dry in the least.
So what’s next from the Evil Dead saga, beyond Evil Dead Rise? Speaking with AV Club this week, producer Bruce Campbell teases MORE movies in the NEAR future!
“It’s all about the books now,” Campbell tells the outlet. “It has nothing to do with Ash or any particular character. In Army of Darkness, we first saw three books. So we know there are three out there, and none of them are any good. It’s about: where does that darn book wind up, who gets it, and what happens?”
“But the universe is the same,” Campbell continues. “It’s about innocent people with no special skills having to fight for their very lives, and in this case, it’s a wayward sister and this young daughter. So it’s still a pressure cooker. They get isolated. The apartment is the cabin. The fact that it’s a creepy old high-rise in downtown L.A. is just cool.”
Talking specifically about what comes next, Campbell previews: “I think the stories will progress a little more now. We’re going to try and do them more like every two or three years rather than every 10 years. It’s also the first time Sam is working with his brother Ivan to create an overall Bible that will give future writers and directors an idea of where this thing should go next to potentially tie in some of these stories. So I think it’s going to get a little more tied in as the years go by.”
“But because it’s all about the books. It could be a book in the past, a book in the future. It’s yet to be determined,” Campbell adds.
Director Lee Cronin’s (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise is coming exclusively to theaters on April 21, 2023. Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The End) and Nell Fisher (Splendid Isolation) star alongside Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan.
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