Since locking in Jane Levy to replace Lily Collins as its leading lady, the Evil Dead reboot has been on something of a casting roll, with director Fede Alvarez scooping up the likes of Lou Taylor Pucci and Shiloh Fernandez. The female quotient is now high once more, as Cloverfield’s Jessica Lucas and newcomer Elizabeth Blackmore are in talks to join them.
The original film’s creator Sam Raimi is producing this redo along with regular cohorts Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell. The slightly changed story finds Levy as Mia, a young woman who heads to a remote cabin with some friends to weather a drug withdrawal.
Lucas, assuming she eventually signs on, would play a nurse who also happens to be Mia’s best friend. Blackmore would play Fernandez’ fiancée, a new face among the gang.
But, this being The Evil Dead, there’s a nasty, Necronomicon-shaped surprise awaiting our young characters, with a horde of demons just waiting to cause trouble.
Alvarez is set to kick the madness off this April in New Zealand, with shooting also planned for Michigan.