Earlier this week we got a couple of new images from Ash vs. Evil Dead, and now Entertainment Weekly has caught up with star Bruce Campbell, who has offered up some details on the upcoming Starz series, discussing how he and Sam Raimi have approached the weekly TV show format, and promising fans that they won’t feel “ripped off” by Ash’s small screen escapades.
“We have 10 30-minute things, so we have 300 minutes of story coming,” states Campbell. “So, what it does is you have to expand it. You have to create the world. You have to expand the world. You have to expand your characters. Ash can’t walk around in a room breaking stuff over his head. You have to interact with other people. So, Ash is basically enlisting his sidekicks if you will, his team — and they venture out. It’s kind of a traveling roadshow of horror. They have to put this back in the box. And it’s a hell of a job to put this back in the box. It’s obviously bigger than anyone ever imagined. So, this team of people — who are marginally qualified — have to pretty much overcome ridiculous odds. And they’re not the right people for it. That’s what I like about it.”
Campbell then went on to express his happiness with the series, stating that: “This is really a nice quality show. I’m gonna feel good about presenting this to people. I really am. They will so not be ripped off by what we’re gonna do… And I mean that from a horror point of view. The attempted entertainment value? Pretty high! Pretty high! The only difference now is you don’t see the hoses. You don’t see all the tubes that you used to see in the first Evil Dead. We’ve moved past that. But when we do blood effects, it’s not digital. The other day, the guy brought in a keg! He had a keg on a cart, with the tubes coming out of the keg. This was a high-pressure situation. And then they hit us the other day with mortars. We’re using kegs to pump this blood. We’re using mortars — like air mortars! — to blow this s—. You kill a monster, it’s ugly.”
Ash vs. Evil Dead is set to debut in the fall, and we’ll hopefully get to see a first trailer for the series during Comic-Con.
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Originally published July 9, 2015. Updated November 29, 2022.
