Sam Raimi Is a Lying Dickweed

Because he said yet again that he was going to do Evil Dead 4 soon, this time at July’s San Diego Comic Con. He said he’d be meeting with his brother Ivan shortly and hammering out a script. And now he’s telling MTV he didn’t get around to it. Arrgh!

?We never did it,? Raimi admitted when we checked in with him on the project recently. ?There was too much work to do on ?Drag Me to Hell.??
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?It?s on hold still,? Raimi said of the much-anticipated ?Dead? sequel, likely to be pushed back even further by his recent talk that he?ll be directing two more ?Spider-Man? movies that should keep him busy for the better part of the next half-decade. ?It?s still on the back-burner.?

While the 49-year-old writer/director acknowledged that the news will likely disappoint all his ?Dead? heads, he is still promising that the franchise shall rise again. ?I read this article online that [referred to those Comic-Con quotes]and was like, ?Raimi promises again. He?s not going to deliver?,? Raimi joked. ?And I was like, ?Oh my God, you guys know me so well.?

?I?m honored some people want to see it, and I?d like to do it, and one day I will,? he added. ?I just don?t know when.?

Raimi keeps saying he’s got all the time in the world to make Evil Dead 4, and that’s just not true. It’s been 15 years since Army of Darkness, and if you’ve been watching Burn Notice, you might have noticed Bruce Campbell with a bit of gray in his hair. At a certain point, even Bruce Campbell won’t be able to play Ash anymore, although hopefully that won’t be until he’s 60 or something…IN 10 YEARS. So that’s your limit, Raimi. Go crap out Spidey 4 and then get back to what really matters.

Oh, this awesome pic of Ash is from deviant artist Nebezial, by the way.