The Deadites are back once again to face off against Ash Williams! While horror icon Bruce Campbell publicly retired from playing the character in 2015, after the cancelation of “Ash vs Evil Dead.” He will return to the role in a new animated project based on Sam Raimi’s legendary franchise.
“We are developing an animated version, like a series,” Campbell told Entertainment Weekly. “I’ll do that. I’ll do Ash’s voice all day long because my voice hasn’t aged as much as I have.”
However, Campbell also confirmed that this project would keep in line with focusing more on the elements of the “Evil Dead” films. The franchise has been trying to avoid focusing on the cabin and Ash since Fede Álvarez’s (“Alien: Romulus“) 2013 reboot. Álvarez’s film was also the first time that franchise creator Raimi did not write or direct a project in the universe.
“We’re out of the cabin, Sam [Raimi] doesn’t have to direct, I don’t have to star as Ash,” Campbell said. “The trick is to take the elements that people like, which is innocent people being tortured by a malicious entity, and it’s people who have no skills to stop it.”
So while Campbell is involved as Ash, it doesn’t sound like he will be the central character. But we won’t really know for sure until plot details are released.
As it stands this project is untitled with no set release window. We will keep you posted on updates about this new animated “Evil Dead” project as it develops.
