Exclusive: Dante Tomaselli wants a piece of Evil Dead !

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Got an interesting tidbit for all you Dante Tomaselli and Evil Dead Fans. Was talking to the director about various things including his film Satans Playground when he mentioned he would be very interested in getting on board for an Evil Dead remake. If Sam Raimi is not doing it, I can not think of anyone better off the top of my head. Dante had the following to say

Needless to say, I'd love to direct an Evil Dead project. I've been wanting to make an all-out zombie splatter film for a long time. Something hard-core and gory as hell. I like that Tapert wants to produce a film that is an "assault." I have a track record...3 features now -- and I can certainly work on low budgets.

Hell, I even have Ellen (Cheryl from the original) Sandweiss in my new film, Satan's Playground. She had so many interesting stories to tell about the making of the original. I'm planning on shooting THE OCEAN next, but I'd drop everything if this opportunity presented itself.

I'm a die-hard Evil Dead fan; I saw the cult classic in 1981 in theaters when I was 11.

-Dante Tomaselli

Dante is a talented Director but deep down inside he is just like you and me. He is a fan! He loves it and wont taint the remake. Of course we would all love to see Sam Raimi come back and director and Bruce Campbell star, but since at this point they are only going to produce, why not give somebody like Dante who has a proven track record of bringing cult classic actors and throwing them into the spotlight, a chance! Dante's current Project Satans Playground is very impressive and has many names you will recognize. He also is working on The Ocean which is also garnering plenty of attention.

So although right now this is just a wish of a directors, I hope that one day we can say that Dante got what he wanted and can bring us all an Evil Dead movie with the talented team of Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi and of course Bruce Campbell involved.