{"id":428647,"date":"2026-01-21T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:37:07","slug":"new-evil-dead-movie-from-francis-galluppi-sets-cast-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428647\/","title":{"rendered":"New ‘Evil Dead’ Movie From Francis Galluppi Sets Cast (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Francis Galluppi<\/a> (The Last Stop in Yuma County) has assembled cast for his Evil Dead<\/a> movie, following up this year\u2019s Evil Dead Burn, on which we first reported<\/a> in April 2024. The ensemble includes Charlotte Hope<\/a> (The Nun), Jessica McNamee<\/a> (Mortal Kombat franchise), Zach Gilford<\/a> (Midnight Mass), Josh Helman<\/a> (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton<\/a> (Dangerous Animals), Australian newcomer Ella Oliphant<\/a>, and Elizabeth Cullen<\/a> (Goolagong).<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently untitled, this Evil Dead\u2018s logline is being kept under wraps, as the last one was. Galluppi will direct from his own script, with New Line Cinema and Sony Pictures co-financing, on the heels of Evil Dead Burn and the breakout success of Evil Dead Rise, the installment from Lee Cronin which grossed $147 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tLongtime franchise producer Rob Tapert is producing alongside series creator Sam Raimi, with Romel Adam, Jose Ca\u00f1as, and Lee Cronin exec producing alongside Bruce Campbell, who has played Ash in various projects across the horror franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Line Cinema will distribute the untitled Evil Dead domestically through Warner Bros. Pictures, with Sony distributing internationally, StudioCanal distributing in the UK, and Metropolitan Filmexport distributing in France. Word of the untitled Evil Dead\u2018s cast comes months out from the July 24 release of Evil Dead Burn, the sixth installment in the series, directed by Infested\u2018s S\u00e9bastien Vani\u010dek. We were also first to report<\/a> on that one.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for roles in New Line\u2019s The Nun and Robert Zemeckis\u2019 Allied, as well as Starz\u2019s limited series The Spanish Princess, Showmax\u2019s Catch Me a Killer \u2014 for which she received a 2025 International Emmy Award nomination\u00a0\u2014 and HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones, Hope is repped by Verve, Untitled, United Agents, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole<\/p>\n

\n\tMcNamee plays Sonya Blade in New Line\u2019s Mortal Kombat and the sequel, slated for release on May 8. Other credits include Warner Bros.\u2019 The Meg and Chips, as well as Battle of the Sexes for Searchlight. She is repped by Untitled, Independent Management Company, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n

\n\tGilford\u2019s credits include Universal\u2019s The Purge: Anarchy, Criminal Minds: Evolution for Paramount+, as well as Netflix\u2019s Mike Flanagan series Midnight Mass and The Fall of the House of Usher. He is repped by Untitled and Gersh.<\/p>\n

\n\tPreviously seen in George Miler\u2019s Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga \u2014 both for Warner Bros. \u2014 as well as Ron Howard\u2019s Thirteen Lives, Helman is repped by Link Entertainment, Gersh, and Lisa Mann Creative Management.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost recently seen in IFC Films\u2019 critically acclaimed serial killer thriller Dangerous Animals, which premiered at Cannes, Newton is repped by Aran Michael Management and Strand Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tRepped by Aran Michael Management, Oliphant makes her big screen debut in Galluppi\u2019s Evil Dead.<\/p>\n

\n\tCullen comes to the project following roles in the likes of Goolagong, The Last Anniversary, Diabolic, and Elvis. She is repped by CESD and Linsten Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) has assembled cast for his Evil Dead movie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,224765,224766,224767,224768,134,213863,224769,224770,224771,344,224772],"class_list":{"0":"post-428647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-charlotte-hope","11":"tag-elizabeth-cullen","12":"tag-ella-newton","13":"tag-ella-oliphant","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-evil-dead","16":"tag-francis-galluppi","17":"tag-jessica-mcnamee","18":"tag-josh-helman","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-zach-gilford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}