Bedroeving alom. Naast het feit dat Kurt Vonnegut voorgoed onder de zoden ligt, gaan ze ook nog ‘The Evil Dead‘ remaken… Wat opzich raar is, want ‘Evil Dead II‘ is eigenlijk al een remake. Hoe dan ook, het is een erg domme move en wat het eindresultaat zal betreffen, ik ben sceptisch.
Overigens. Wat ik vond op IMDb, is dat levende legende Bruce Campbell (aka Ash, de hoofdrolspeler van de serie) er iets anders van vindt:
During a Q&A, one student asked what Bruce thought about the Evil Dead remake… the student seemed extremely agitated by the fact that a remake was even being considered.
Bruce basically backed the project. Said it’s even too early to say whether it will end up getting made, as there isn’t even a script written yet. He says as long as they make a film that scares the *beep* out of you, they [Campbell, Raimi] have done right. He didn’t say, but he spoke a lot about creative control during the night (how they were approached by New Lies Cinema to do Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, but would have had extremely little creative control besides Ash’s dialogue) so I assume Sam and Bruce will have a great deal of creative control over this film if it goes through.
As to WHY they would do an ED remake, Bruce said it would simply be nice to see a version of the story “done right” – without visible green hoses when blood gushes out of somebody, without the matte lines around the moon, etc. He then segued into a George Lucas bashing session (essentially saying, ‘Hey, at least we’re not screwing with the original movie’), and frantically screamed “If the space ship looked like shit in 1977, it should still look like shit now!”
Okay. Diplomatisch, goede argumenten, fair enough… maar niet echt overtuigend. You just don’t fuck with the Dead, Ash! You should know that by now…
Gelukkig struikelde mijn oog vervolgens over een ander, interessanter projectje: ‘My Name Is Bruce‘, een veelbelovende film die de volgende plot zal hanteren:
B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon.
So that made my day. Dat, en ‘t feit dat ik vanavond in de bus naar Praag zit, met ‘Player Piano‘ in m’n knuist als eerbetoon aan de eerstgenoemde gestorvene, edoch pas nadat ik Miles’ geniale autobiografie heb uitgelezen. Dode mensen heersen… en films over dode mensen ook.
Right.
Okay, byebye now.
