Bruce Campbell set to star in Evil Dead TV Show

The Evil Dead made a star out of Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi. 3 sequels and a giant cult following later The Evil Dead is now making its way to the small screen that is television. Lately, Television has become more of a powerhouse where movies are starting to become TV shows; Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, etc.. Shows such as Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones has taken the world by storm by using the medium of television to tell bold and interesting stories that wouldn’t be able to work on the big screen. TV shows are the ones that are taking the risks while movies are following a serialized format.

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell announced the plans at Comic Con a few days back. Only recently was it announced that Bruce Campbell will be returning as the protagonist Ash Williams. Last time we saw Ash was the after credits of the 2013 The Evil Dead. Only on-screen for a brief scene, in which he says “Groovy”, and that started a wave of fan speculation that the sequel will combine the movie series and have one giant universe around these characters. I think a TV show is the better way to go since there is so much mythos and now characters that they can explore that films would limit. Now lets pray that it is a channel that allows such gratuitous violence that the series has been known for.

Deadpool Test Footage

Deadpool has been in development hell ever since it was announced. Ryan Reynolds has been fighting for this movie to be made and Fox hasn’t been too keen on making it. The script is hard R and that would limit the box office potential. So for the longest time the movie has been on the back burn, never to be heard of again. Over the weekend Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller premiered test footage at Comic Con. Based on what I say I’m not a big fan. I liked him as a character in the comics but I don’t think that it will work as a movie. His character is too self aware that it will make for a boring and derivative film.

Deadpool’s creator Rob Liefield seems more positive than it do. Here is a quote from him dating back two years ago, “They’ve got a great director on the movie, they’ve got a great script. I may or may have not seen some sort of test of footage that would blow your mind if you saw it and go holy crap and that’s Deadpool in costume. Katana swords, guns, shooting people’s faces off and making me laugh. And I may or may not have seen something that looks just like that. And you’ve got what would amount to the first R Rated X-Men movie. Because that script is R Rated.” If it does see the light of day at least they have passionate people around it.