When Empire sat down to talk Drag Me To Hell with Sam Raimi a few years back he professed to have the opening pages of a new Evil Dead film parked at his Detroit house. Exciting news, we thought. Since then, there's not been a whole lot more news on Ash's possible return but if Dread Central's sources are on the mark, that film could be a whole lot closer to coming to fruition.
According to the site, Raimi's long-time editor Bob Murawski is heading to Michigan to start work on a fourth instalment, news that'll thrill Deadheads everywhere. Murawski is promising "a small indie thing like the first two." Bearing in mind the super-low budget ethos of The Evil Dead involved Raimi building cameras out of birchwood and dead racoons, we'd hope not *quite *as small and indie.
Murawski's news is corroborated by Bruce Campbell's tweet (@GroovyBruce, twitterati): "Believe in the remake, dawg! The project is real. In the works. Cool as hell. Scary as hell."
Yup, the man said "remake", something previously mooted for Park Chan-wook. It's all still filed under 'TBC' and Raimi himself is due to be prepping Oz: The Great And Powerful. Could it be that he's not in Kansas anymore? More as we get it...
Update:** **It just got official! Raimi and co have released a statementconfirming that Fede Alvarez is on to direct the pic, and, in an inriguing twist, Diablo Cody will polish the script. What say you to that, homeslices?