{"id":464451,"date":"2026-06-06T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464451\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:18:08","slug":"bruce-campbell-sounds-pretty-happy-evil-dead-isnt-ashs-story-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464451\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Campbell sounds pretty happy Evil Dead isn’t Ash’s story anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite his recent health issues<\/a>, cinematic legend Bruce Campbell is currently making the press rounds, promoting his new (and sweet-looking) independent comedy Ernie & Emma. (Which Campbell wrote, directed, and starred in.) As with every press engagement he\u2019ll do for the rest of his life, though, that has\u00a0included fielding some inevitable questions about Ash Williams and the\u00a0Evil Dead\u00a0franchise\u2014which Campbell is sounding pretty happy<\/a> to be firmly behind the camera on these days.<\/p>\n

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For one thing, Campbell made it clear that his tiny voice cameo in 2023\u2019s\u00a0Evil Dead Rise<\/a>\u00a0is the most fans should expect from him at that point (even if director Lee Cronin has stated that he believes the character in question is a time-displaced Ash). Campbell (in conversation with the Detroit Free Press<\/a>) noted that the franchise\u2019s current goals, in the wake of TV series Ash Vs. Evil Dead\u00a0ending back in 2018, have been pretty straightforward: \u201cWe moved away from the cabin, we\u2019ve moved away from Sam Raimi, we\u2019ve moved away from Ash and Bruce Campbell.\u201d (Both Raimi and Campbell continue to serve as producers on the series, along with long-time collaborator Rob Tapert; Raimi has been instrumental in finding up-and-coming horror directors to induct into the series.) Given that Rise\u00a0was the series\u2019 most successful entry so far, Campbell sounded genuinely happy that \u201cIt validated the fact that we can get away from those main elements. You\u2019ve got to find a new audience, because the original\u00a0Evil Dead\u00a0fans, you get some of them, you\u2019re not going to get all of them, because they like those original elements. They like me and Sam and Ash and all that sort of crap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell\u2019s comments mirrored those he made to\u00a0The A.V. Club\u00a0back in 2023<\/a>, when he noted that, when it came to long hours in the makeup chair or on set for grueling horror work, \u201cI\u2019m done. That box is\u00a0so checked you can\u2019t even imagine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evil Dead\u00a0currently has two new installments in the works:\u00a0Evil Dead Wrath, directed by\u00a0Last Stop In Yuma County<\/a>\u2018s Francis Galluppi, reportedly wrapped filming last month, but won\u2019t be in theaters until April 2028;\u00a0Evil Dead Burn<\/a>, from\u00a0Infested\u2018s S\u00e9bastien Vani\u010dek, hits theaters next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite his recent health issues, cinematic legend Bruce Campbell is currently making the press rounds, promoting his new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-464451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}