Back in November it was announced that Bruce Campbell will reunite with Sam Raimi and reprise the role of deadite-slayer Ash, albeit in a new TV series as opposed to the long-rumoured Evil Dead 4 / Army of Darkness 2. In the latest issue of EW (via Dread Central), Campbell has spoken about his impending return for the half-hour comedy-horror series, which is going by the title of Ash vs. Evil Dead.
“Ash has survivor’s guilt. You could have a [field day] with his PTSD. He’s a war vet. He doesn’t want to talk about it, and he’ll lie about that stump on his hand to impress the ladies. That’s what I look forward to playing – a guy with horrible flaws. In Army of Darkness he can’t memorize three words, and he’s responsible for the death of a hundred people – this is your lead character!”
He then touched upon the plot of the series, which will see Ash’s life disrupted with the arrival of the Deadites, causing him to take a road trip with two of his co-workers:
“It’s a threesome, which is a good number. Since it’s not cast yet, it would be silly to fully describe them. But they’re supposed to be two very good counterparts. One is a male-bonding situation; the other is father-figure deal, since Ash could have a daughter the same age as this character. Hopefully we’ll pull Ash out of his loner-veteran mode and get him back into being a human being again.”
Finally, Campbell also explained why they opted to go down the TV route as opposed to a fourth film: “We realized if we made another movie, frankly, it would probably be too expensive, but in the format of a TV show, we could give people exactly what they wanted and expand the character and story even more. And we never burned Evil Dead as a franchise out – it’s not like we did 13 of these movies. So we felt like, what the heck, let’s give it a try.”
Ash vs. Evil Dead is set to get underway next year. Groovy.
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Originally published December 23, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
