Sam Raimi News

Sam Raimi In Talks To Direct Matthew Quick Novel ‘Love May Fail’ At Sony

deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: Sam Raimi is in talks to direct Love May Fail, a novel by Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick that Mike White has adapted. Matt Tolmach is producing. Elizabeth Cantillon is the exec producer. The project veers from Raimi's blockbuster path that led him to most recently direct Oz The Great And Powerful and three Spider-Man films. 2 years 40 weeks ago via jetli

Sam Raimi Developing To Helm Jake Tapper’s Afghanistan War Tale ‘The Outpost’

deadline.com – Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, Oscar Nominated writers of The Fighter, have partnered with Sam Raimi on the feature adaptation of the Jake Tapper bestselling book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. Raimi will produce and supervise development of the script with an eye towards directing. Raimi will produce with Rob Tapert, and Paul Merryman will be co-producer.

3 years 4 weeks ago via donnieyen

Bruce Campbell Pretends He Never Started Those 'Army of Darkness 2' Rumors

8:40 PM 11/5/2013 by Jeff Giles

Hey, remember when Bruce Campbell said he was probably reuniting with Sam Raimi for an Army of Darkness sequel? Because it seems like he doesn't.

Fede Alvarez Says Sam Raimi Directing 'Army of Darkness 2'

12:53 PM 10/28/2013 by Binh Ngo

Bruce Campbell has said he's returning to play Ash in Army of Darkness 2, so what about Sam Raimi? Will he return to direct? The answer is yes, according to Fede Alvarez.

Sam Raimi To Direct 'Army Of Darkness 2'?

deadline.com – So says Fede Alvarez, the Uruguayan director who helmed Sony’s TriStar/FilmDistrict/Ghost House #1 box office hit Evil Dead remake earlier this year. Asked if he’d be directing Army Of Darkness 2, a sequel to 1992′s time-traveling Evil Dead threequel, he Tweeted that it’ll be original Evil Dead maestro Raimi in the director’s chair. 3 years 38 weeks ago via jetli

Bruce Campbell Teases 'Army of Darkness' Sequel

10:17 AM 10/21/2013 by Jeff Giles

Yeah, it's been more than 20 years since Bruce Campbell appeared as the deadite-slaying Ash in Army of Darkness. So what? That doesn't mean we aren't going to get the sequel we've been hoping for since 1992 -- at least, not if we can take Campbell at his word.

Sam Raimi's Producer Says 'Evil Dead 4' Would Actually Be 'Army of Darkness 2'

feedproxy.google.com – Once upon a time, Sam Raimi wanted to call his third Deadite-killing expedition Medieval Dead, and briefly flirted with the title Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness, before simply releasing the movie as Army of Darkness in 1992. There’s no question that the film is a sequel to Evil Dead II; it uses Bruce Campbell as the same lead character, Ash, and involves many familiar Evil Dead elements. 4 years 19 weeks ago via brucelee

Sam Raimi Says He Doesn’t Want To Direct The Oz The Great And Powerful Sequel

bleedingcool.com – The stats are in and it’s official: Oz The Great and Powerful is a smash hit. I expect it’s really rather likely that Disney will push their sequel plans all the way to fruition but when they do, will they still have director Sam Raimi on side? Well, that’s looking much less likely.

4 years 19 weeks ago via donnieyen

Review: Oz The Great and Powerful

1:32 PM 3/8/2013 by Sara Vizcarrondo

If it’s true that every story, especially reboots, face pressure to be knowingly meta, Oz The Great and Powerful has a “get out of jail free” card. A prequel, of sorts, to the 1939 Technicolor musical, The Wizard of Oz, this extended metaphor about the magic of illusion and richness of fantasy has nothing to bring it back to the ground.

Sam Raimi Reveals Why He Left 'World of Warcraft'

5:50 PM 3/6/2013 by Binh Ngo

Sam Raimi was once attached to direct the big screen adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment's popular video game World of Warcraft, which at its peak had over 12 million monthly subscribers. We found out last year during the San Diego Comic-Con that he's off the project.