Bruce Campbell confesses in Requiem for Ash (Exclusive Interview)

A New Chapter in the Lore

1428 Elm: I agree. You did leave everything on the table. Knowing that you, Sam and Rob want to go forward with the new incarnation of Evil Dead…

Bruce Campbell: We have a writer and a director locked in. I can only say so much. You know how it is because if its bulls*** I get called a liar.

So, look, here’s what I know. We are actively pursuing it, for 2020 making it, there’s a concept but not a script, we don’t know where we are going to shoot it. We are going to shoot it where we have to shoot it, to get the most bang for our buck. That’s pretty straightforward.

New cast, modern day, it will be a continuation of an Evil Dead story, NO ASH. There is a new, young, handpicked director by Mr. Sam Raimi, so folks should be very excited! This ain’t dead.

Ash is on vacation but we have a lot of stories to tell. The same factors will still work in a movie because the Evil Dead premise is there are no superheroes. Its just people fighting demons and that’s it. So, that can translate to men, women, children, old, young, people of color, it doesn’t matter.

We’re going to try and do it like a really cool, modern Evil Dead.

1428 Elm: Are you involved with the casting or is that to be determined?

Bruce Campbell: No, I’ll be all over it like a cheap suit. Until we have a script, there’s nothing to talk about.

1428 Elm: Do you feel that Ash should be killed for the franchise to continue?

Bruce Campbell: He doesn’t need to but it would have been cool. In every comic book, they killed Superman, they killed Batman. You have to kill your heroes and then figure out a way to bring them back.

Ash was dead at the end of the very first Evil Dead. We brought him back so… you would have to kill him again. You should.

1428 Elm: In my mind, as long as Ash is out there, it will always be, “Bruce, you need to come back. You need to do this.”

Bruce Campbell: That’s fine. Guess what? He is out there and that’s okay. Dying would be great, but he doesn’t have to because now he’s just floating out in the netherworld and that’s okay too.

1428 Elm: In portraying Ash for so long do you have a favorite or most memorable moment playing him?

Bruce Campbell: It’s not really my job to do that. The trick as an actor is to give it a go during even the sh***iest scene written. You get your s*****scenes, you get your great scenes. The work ethic has to remain the same. You have to give it a shot.

Sometimes you can overcome crappy dialogue, not often. Or a crappy story, not often. You can overcome crappy directors sometimes because you just go on auto pilot. Sometimes I would go on Ash auto pilot.