Diablo Cody working on drafts of Evil Dead 4, Fede Alvarez confirmed!

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

After hyper speculation and fevered postulation the last few days, Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures has issued a press release pertaining to EVIL DEAD 4. Not much was ascertained we didn’t already know – namely that the film will be a REMAKE, not a sequel, and that relative newbie Fede Alvarez had been handpicked to write and direct the long-awaited franchise sequel. However, one interesting tidbit was found in the missive.

Here’s what’s interesting. None other than Diablo Cody (JENNIFER’S BODY, JUNO, pictured) has been brought into to revise drafts of EVIL DEAD 4, originally penned by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. No word if she’ll end up with screen-credit, but it’s interesting to think someone other than Raimi and his brother will be writing the script. Cody’s cute and all, but writing EVIL DEAD 4? Bah, I just don’t know…

Raimi wrote, directed and, along with Tapert and Campbell, produced the original horror classic THE EVIL DEAD that tells the story of five twenty-something friends who become holed up in a remote cabin where they discover a Book Of The Dead. An archaeologist’s tape recording reveals that the ancient text was discovered among the Khandarian ruins of a Sumerian civilization. Playing the taped incantations, the youths unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival. THE EVIL DEAD spawned a franchise with the equally successful installments EVIL DEAD II and ARMY OF DARKNESS.

Raimi, Tapert and Campbell will serve as producers on EVIL DEAD 4. Ghost House Pictures partners Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Nicole Brown and J.R. Young will oversee the project for Ghost House. Lionsgate will handle international sales on the film.