Sam Raimi would love to direct an Evil Dead movie starring Bruce Campbell

Last year, it was announced that EVIL DEAD franchise rights holders Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert were working with "a new director" hand picked by Raimi to develop a new entry in the series. Yesterday, Raimi sat down for a Reddit AMA session to promote the release of THE GRUDGE, which he produced, and during the Q&A he confirmed that the new EVIL DEAD project is still in the works – 

Bruce, Rob and I are working with a young filmmaker who is writing a new Evil Dead story that he will direct. 

Raimi also mentioned that he'd like to see a couple other EVIL DEAD movies happen as well… and I know the fans would be very hyped if either of these were to go into production. First is a new sequel that would star Bruce Campbell as iconic hero Ash. Problem is, Campbell has said that he's done playing Ash.

I would love to direct a new Evil Dead movie… but I'd really like to do it with Bruce. And he says he's retired the character. I hope not.

Responding to the question of "Will the Evil Dead remake be getting a sequel?", Raimi replied, 

If Fede would write or direct it, yes, in a split second!

Raimi has previously said that he believed Fede Alvarez's 2013 EVIL DEAD is set in the same universe as all of the other EVIL DEAD movies and the Ash vs. Evil Dead TV show, so I'm not sure "remake" is the right term to use for it anymore.

For now it doesn't look like a Raimi-directed EVIL DEAD starring Bruce Campbell or another Alvarez-directed EVIL DEAD will be happening any time soon, if at all. But we do have this movie from "a new filmmaker" to look forward to, and I'm anxious to hear who this writer/director is.