Sam Raimi has entrusted The Hole in the Ground director Lee Cronin with the Evil Dead franchise for the latest entry, Evil Dead Rise, and Cronin has taken to social media to confirm that filming on Evil Dead Rise is now underway in New Zealand! Cronin celebrated the start of production by sharing a shot of a clapperboard – and wondering how messed up his white shoes are going to get.
Bruce Campbell is sticking with his decision to retire from the role of Evil Dead hero Ash, so he's not in the cast of this one. Instead, the film stars Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan as
two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
It has been said that Evil Dead Rise takes the horror "out of the woods" and into a "modern day urban setting", possibly a high-rise building of some sort.
The film is being produced by Robert Tapert, with Raimi and Campbell serving as executive producers.
Evil Dead Rise is set up at New Line Cinema and will be released through the HBO Max streaming service. A release date has not been announced.