Director Needed for Evil Dead Remake

"We’re talking to various filmmakers about their possible interest, and it’s still in the germination stage," says Tapert. "There are people who we would like to give a chance to create their own vision as to what Evil Dead is, so we’re kind of hearing what other people’s take might be and moving forward along those lines."

"Just redoing, and using a bad word, aping the original Evil Dead… there’s really no reason to do that," he says. "That movie exists. So it’s finding a way to please the people who love the original, introduce it to a whole new group of people who have never seen it, and thrill them. And also for Sam and myself and Bruce, to thrill ourselves with working with new people [on] what their idea is to take that kind of wild experience to the next level."