The Evil Dead continues to rise! Following the success of Lee Cronin's splatter-filled Evil Dead Rise last year, the pipeline for the comedy horror franchise Sam Raimi built has just gotten busier and busier. Already on the way are two new Evil Dead movies, one from Vermin director Sébastien Vaniček and another from Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop In Yuma County). Now, as revealed by Ash Williams himself Mr Bruce Campbell in an interview with EW, the parasitic soul-snaffling Deadites are set to be drawn to life — or at least more undeath — anew in an original animated TV take on the series.
Speaking to EW ahead of the release of his Satanic Panic set Peacock series Hysteria, Campbell confirmed that whilst he officially retired from the role of supermarket clerk-turned-Promised One Ash Williams in live-action when Ash Vs Evil Dead ended in 2018, he will lend his voice to a new Evil Dead animation. "We are developing an animated version, like a series," said Campbell. "I'll do that. I'll do Ash's voice all day long, because my voice hasn't aged as much as I have." Elsewhere in the same interview, Campbell also expounded on how the strength of the franchise rests on its premise rather than himself or Raimi being involved, stating how "the trick is to take the elements that people like, which is innocent people being tortured by a malicious entity, and it's people who have no skills to stop it."
We have no further word on what this animated show will look like as of yet, who'll make it, when or where it'll be set, or who will star alongside Campbell when it eventually hits our screens. Even so, the prospect of Campbell reprising the role of one of the greatest movie characters in history will never not be exciting to us, and the notion of him doing so just as we've recently also learned that Sam Raimi is heading back to horror for his next movie means it's a groovy time to be a fan of all things Evil Dead related. As for title suggestions, how about Gouache Vs Evil Dead? C'mon, that's a good one!