Another ‘Evil Dead’ movie in development

Advance:

• Filmmaker Francis Galluppi is developing an ‘Evil Dead’ movie.
• Sam Raimi is on board to produce.
• It follows the last announcement just a couple of months ago.

It would seem that ‘Evil Dead’ overlord (and director of the original three films), Sam Raimi, is creating a cinematic Thunderdome of sorts for future installments of the horror franchise.

Just a few months after it was reported that Sébastien Vaniček was developing an ‘Evil Dead’ film, comes news that another American director, Francis Galluppi, is, via Deadlinein conversations to make your own opinion.

So yeah…Deadites galore!

Who is Francisco Galluppi?

Galluppi is a filmmaker who has worked primarily on short films and projects by other directors, but made his own directorial debut with ‘The Last Stop in Yuma County,’ which follows a traveling salesman who, while stranded At a rural Arizona rest stop, he’s thrust into a terrifying hostage situation with the arrival of two bank robbers who have no qualms about using cruelty (or cold, hard steel) to protect their bloody fortune.

The film will be in theaters on May 10.

Galluppi apparently conjured up an original story set in the ‘Evil Dead’ universe and proposed it to Raimi.

This is what Raimi told Deadline:

“Francis Galluppi is a narrator who knows when to make us wait in latent tension and when to hit us with explosive violence. He is a director who shows a rare control in his debut film.”

What’s happening now with a new ‘Evil Dead’ movie?

In February, news came that director Sébastien Vaniček had landed a gig on ‘Dead’ after his work caught Raimi’s attention.

The French filmmaker has attracted attention thanks to his horror film ‘Vermine’ (or, to give them both titles in English, ‘Vermin’/’Infested’).

That film was first presented as part of the Critics’ Week sidebar at the Venice Film Festival. Watching the residents of a dilapidated French apartment building battle an army of rapidly reproducing deadly spiders, the film won Best Picture and Best Director in its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest, and was also invited to the Sitges Film Festival , where it earned a Best Picture nomination and won a Special Jury Prize.

He signed with the CAA agency thanks to the success of ‘Vermine, and has been out and about taking meetings, which is how he ended up on Raimi and Rob Tapert’s radar, as they said they’re always looking for new talent to cast. raise the “Dead” flag.

Raimi and Tapert are producing new ‘Evil Dead’ films through their company Ghost House Pictures, but it remains to be seen where the new film ends up.

What is the story of the new ‘Evil Dead’ movies?

However, it seems more likely that the producers hiring new directors means it will be a completely different story, albeit one that does feature the Deadites trademark in some way.

Since the ‘Evil Dead’ stories moved away from the Ash character from the original films (played by Bruce Campbell, who also reprized the role for a spin-off television series), a whole new world of terrifying opportunities has opened up for the franchise. .

Which means this new movie could be about any number of situations where the infamous Necronomicon tome causes chaos.

What about the sequel to ‘Evil Dead Rise’?

Last year’s ‘Evil Dead Rise’, written and directed by Lee Cronin, brought the ‘Dead’ films to life.

Although Cronin said at the time that he had ideas about where the sequels could lead after his horror film Deadites-in-a-high-rise and the film’s $147 million worldwide box office success, there has been no announcement about a continuation.

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