Galluppi is a relative newcomer, with the crime thriller “The Final Cease in Yuma County” serving as his characteristic directorial debut. (It is because of be launched later this yr.) Raimi, who most not too long ago directed “Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity” for Marvel Studios, is just too busy to helm a brand new film within the franchise he began all these years in the past with Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert. As an alternative, he appears all for utilizing it as a automobile to present youthful filmmakers an opportunity to show their abilities.
Such was the case with final yr’s “Evil Useless Rise.” Directed by Lee Cronin, who had beforehand helmed the low-budget “The Gap within the Floor,” the movie was an enormous success, taking in $146 million on the field workplace and turning into one of many yr’s huge surprises. That, it seems, has opened the door for extra. Whether or not or not Warner Bros. is concerned in both of those two new movies coming down the pipeline stays to be seen, however the studio would most likely like a primary chunk on the apple given how effectively issues went final time round.
The franchise presently contains 5 movies: 1981’s “The Evil Useless,” 1987’s “Evil Useless II,” 1992’s “Military of Darkness,” 2013’s “Evil Useless,” and the aforementioned “Evil Useless Rise.” There was additionally the comparatively short-lived however much-beloved TV sequence “Ash vs. Evil Useless,” which was the final time we noticed Bruce Campbell suiting up as Ash Williams. Campbell stated final yr that an “Evil Useless” animated sequence can also be within the works, however we have not heard a lot of something official on that entrance since then.
The brand new “Evil Useless” film doesn’t presently have a launch date.