Fede Alvarez‘ remake of Sam Raimi‘s The Evil Dead has lost its star. While things looked to be moving quickly, Variety’s Jeff Sneider now reports that Lily Collins has had to withdraw from the project due to scheduling issues. The only other project on her slate (that we know of) is the adaptation of The Mortal Instruments, so it’s possible that the shooting schedule for that film is the culprit. Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell are all producing the update based on Raimi’s 1981 horror film, and they hand-selected Alvarez to direct. Plot details are still scarce at this point, but Diablo Cody (who did some rewrite work on the script) described the project as “unbelievably violent.”
The lead in the remake will undoubtedly be a coveted role, so it’ll be interesting to see who steps in to replace Collins. The Abduction actress will next be seen in Tarsem Singh’s Snow White pic Mirror Mirror. The Evil Dead is slated for April 12th, 2013.
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One down.
The Abduction actress. lmao.
No big loss for a project that seems to have everything against it anyways (no Ash, no direct Raimi involvement in script/direction, and the fact that Evil Dead 2 is essentially ALREADY a perfectly good remake of Evil Dead 1). Either give us a final Ash tale, or cut your losses IMO.
Mirror, Mirror is going to be a good one… i hope.
good riddance
I was going to say that :/
It’s a remake of Evil Dead, right? Maybe, after reading the script, she decided she just wasn’t that into trees.
I Knew she wouldn’t handle the extreme violence in the script. She was miscast from the start. This is the best news all week. I still won’t be seeing this because of the main Ash character being a women. Hollywood is trying to outsmart itself by changing the characters around. That’s going to spell disaster. I guess Diablo Cody can only write female leads which is pretty sad.
screw you sedna,you bitter hater.lily is too good for this crap movie anyway.
Diablo Cody and that pussy looking emo fag as the leading role are enough to keep me miles from this garbage.