Sam Raimi Sends Evil Dead 4: Consequences to the Grave

Aug 28, 2012

Following a California court injunction against Awards Pictures, Sam Raimi has successfully blocked an attempt at the upstart studio from producing an unauthorized The Evil Dead sequel which had a working title of Evil Dead 4: Consequences. Raimi and his own company, Renaissance Pictures, are currently developing their own sequel as well as a remake of the original. Incredibly enough Awards president, Glenn MacCrae, felt his company had every right to pursue producing Consequences simply because Raimi had mentioned he had no plans to revisit the twenty year old series, as stated in a 2000 interview.

I suppose if that’s all it takes, there are loads of properties out there readers and I can start developing. What do you say folks? Anyone up for putting together say 2030? Hell, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke are dead so it should be all good…

It wasn’t much of a court battle though as representatives of Awards Pictures failed to appear in court. Due to Awards failure to act the state of California has permanently placed an injunction against Awards Pictures from using the Evil Dead name or in any way asserting they own the trademark.

As far as official plans for Evil Dead, Raimi is producing a new version of the original film (alongside Bruce Campbell and Rob Tappert) with Federico Alvarez directing a script by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody. Principle photography for the film is complete and it is currently in post production with a release target of 2013. This remake has a new twist as our hero will be a woman this time around: actress Jane Levy. Raimi is also working with Sony on a fourth film in the Evil Dead series. Here’s a fun idea… what if the female Ashe teams up with the old school Bruce Campbell Ashe in some sort of alternate universe?

Dueling boomsticks anyone?

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Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.