Production BEGINS On FIRST TV ADAPTATION OF CULT FRANCHISE FROM ORIGINAL FILMMAKERS SAM RAIMI, ROB TAPERT AND BRUCE CAMPBELL
STARZ RELEASES FIRST LOOK PHOTOS FROM SET
Beverly Hills, Calif., April 23, 2015 – The STARZ Original series “Ash
vs Evil Dead” began production this month in New Zealand on the
10-episode first season of the half-hour series executive produced by
Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell, the original filmmakers of the
franchise, and Craig DiGregorio who will serve as executive producer and
showrunner. “Ash vs Evil Dead” is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead and is set to premiere on STARZ in fall 2015.
Campbell
will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and
chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding
responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a
Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally
forced to face his demons –personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out,
has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn
Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (“Salem,”
“Spartacus”) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause
of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago (“Touch,” Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past and Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”)
as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our
anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her
partner.
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