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Source : Creature Corner

EVIL DEAD REMAKE: MAYBE NOT

Source: Marsdust

I'm not sure how advisable it is to get your movie news from the guy who used to drive Seaquest, but I suppose Ted Raimi does have the inside track on certain projects.

One of those is the previously announced remake of Evil Dead, which very few horror fanatics found to be a good idea. We heard a few rumors that original director Sam Raimi, who would produce the update (actually a combo of Evil Dead 1 & 2) through his Ghost House company, was looking for a visionary director (Oldboy helmer Chan-wook Park was among those rumored) to bring the Ashless account of Necronomicon fun into the 21st century.

But maybe Sam has reconsidered, or he's just too busy with the webbed wonder to give it attention. A site called Marsdust sat down with Sam's character actor sibling Ted, who succinctly extinguished the remake's buzz: "There won't be one as far as I know. That's all I know. I mean there might be, there might be one but as far as I can tell there isn't. Nothing's going on with it at the moment."

When out promoting Ghost House features, Ted's lesser-known bro Sam also tends to drop mention of making Evil Dead 4, but I think he just gets kicks from spitting gasoline on the flames of fandom.