Evil Dead Punk'd?
Sep. 14, 2005
Now, take this with a grain of salt, since it's coming from the same folks who said that Chris Rock was lending his voice to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (he didn't).
Apparently, Ashton Kutcher's name has shown up on the cast listing for next year's remake of EVIL DEAD, which will be produced by 'the three amigos' (Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell). No other cast member is up there, but as you can guess, people have been going nuts on the IMDB boards wondering as to who's next. Personally, I'd rather not have one of my most beloved horror films ever dragged into this Hollywood machine to
be remade. I was so-so about DAWN OF THE DEAD being remade, and even then it couldn't match the original. Geez, when will Hollywood get it that you can't get the same success from the original on name alone.
As for Kutcher, if he indeed is in the film, there's only room for one Ashley J. Williams in my book, and that man is Bruce Campbell (it's been out there that Kutcher has said that he wants to play Ash, but that's all that's out there).
We'll keep on this for sure, just in case we turn out to be punk'd.
10:14PM on 09/16/2005