With Sam Raimi applying his own unique style to the MCU in this week’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (watch our video review here), not only has the Evil Dead director been asked about his last foray into the world of superhero movies with Spider-Man, but also his first big-budget studio movie, 1990’s cult oddity Darkman, about which he has revealed that Universal are talking about a sequel.
Even though there have been a couple of direct-to-DVD follow-ups to the original – 1995’s Darkman II: The Return of Durant and 1996’s Darkman III: Die Darkman Die – TheWrap asked whether Raimi was interested in making a legacy sequel to his original film, which underwhelmed with $48M worldwide box-office, to which he replied “Yes. Universal is talking about a Darkman sequel. There’s a producer attached. I haven’t heard the story yet or gone into it, I’ve been so busy with this movie. But I think it’s cool.”
Darkman was also a breakout role for Liam Neeson, and Raimi added that he would love to have the actor back in the bandages, saying “I don’t know if he’d do it, but he’d be incredible.”
You can learn more about Darkman by reading our retrospective feature Darkman: Revisiting Sam Raimi’s cult superhero movie and as always don’t forget to let us know whether you’d like to see a sequel by heading to our social channels @FlickeringMyth….
