Sam Raimi Destroys Un-Authorized Sequel To 'Evil Dead'

Sam Raimi Destroys Un-Authorized Sequel To 'Evil Dead'

With Court Order, Sam Raimi Has Now Ended The Production Of 'Evil Dead 4: Consequences,' An Un-Authorized Sequel To His 1981 Horror Film, Evil Dead.

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By Darkknight2149 - Aug 29, 2012 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Hollywood Reporter



After a lawsuit for "Copyright Infringement," Sam Raimi has recently caused the cancellation of Evil Dead 4: Consequences, an un-authorized sequel to the Evil Dead Trilogy. In preparation for Evil Dead 4, Award Pictures, the company behind the film, had claimed that because of the Sam Raimi original having been released in 1981, the company lacked control over it, allowing it to be used as titles in 20 films. In response, Sam Raimi's company, Renaissance Pictures, filed the lawsuit. Due to high retainer fees, Award was unable to get a lawyer, and was unable to attend court. This reportedly ended a financing deal with Anchor Bay, costing millions of dollars. Evil Dead 4: Consequences is currently dead.

Despite this, The Evil Dead reboot has seemingly not been harmed and is still scheduled for an April 14, 2013 release date.
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AlexdoxA
AlexdoxA - 8/29/2012, 4:03 PM
I'd like to see the script though
PartyHard
PartyHard - 8/29/2012, 4:04 PM
What's going to happen 20 years from now, when we've made no new movies, because we just [frick]ing rebooted everything? Reboots of reboots?
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 8/29/2012, 4:17 PM
@PartyHard I know. This sucks. And your not wrong. Platinum Dunes, the company that did the crappy reboots of Friday The 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street are already remaking Halloween again. It's only a matter of time before Hollywood starts doing this with a lot more of their movies. Why is it so hard for Hollywood to come up with something original that's not plain stupid like Cowboys and Aliens or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (those are just random examples, of course).
TheBatman1
TheBatman1 - 8/29/2012, 4:57 PM
@darkknight2149 Its because there is no such thing as an original idea. Just reused ideas that are made into your own story. Unfortunetly, Hollywood is to lazy to do this and feels that it would be much easier to reuse the exact same ideas
l0rdleg0las
l0rdleg0las - 8/29/2012, 4:57 PM
[frick]ing Sam Raimi has become a worthless hack. Everything he does anymore is garbage
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 8/29/2012, 5:28 PM
@ TheBatman1
@ Xenix
Both of your points taken.
CaptainObvious
CaptainObvious - 8/29/2012, 5:29 PM
@Redhood85- The Evil Dead movies are amazing. Don't know what trilogy you watched.
jessepostal
jessepostal - 8/29/2012, 5:53 PM
evil deads were fun, well 2 and 3 were fun, one is a little more serious. Anyone ever watch the original original evil dead,within the woods??
TwiztidThorn
TwiztidThorn - 8/29/2012, 6:50 PM
Good... Bad... Sam is the one with the lawyers.
BarnaclePete
BarnaclePete - 8/29/2012, 7:08 PM
He must have been worried someone would make an actual good Evil Dead sequel. Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness took everything what was great about the original and made it all a stupid joke.
BarnaclePete
BarnaclePete - 8/29/2012, 7:09 PM
@jokerfan . . . Evil Dead 2 does resell the origin story. Eliminates some characters and makes the whole thing into a slapstick movie.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 8/30/2012, 5:30 AM
@ Xenix "Both of those films were adaptations." That kind of proves my point that Hollywood isn't even trying to do anything original.
Silmane
Silmane - 8/30/2012, 6:55 AM
Saying Raimi is a hack after Spiderman 2 and Drag me to hell. lol. Those movies own.
TheWebSlinger
TheWebSlinger - 8/30/2012, 5:56 PM
Silmane, but that was his only good Spider-Man movie though, and Drag Me To Hell was his best horror flick in a while.
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