The filmmaker behind The Last Stop In Yuma County is moving to deadites. Francis Galluppi has been chosen to write/direct a new Evil Dead film from Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures. Deadline is reporting the news and says that there are no plot details or any other specifics at the moment.
Here’s what Raimi had to say about Galluppi.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence. He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
The Evil Dead series is Sam Raimi’s baby. He directed the first three films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness before turning it over to other filmmakers like Fede Alvarez for the 2013 film and Lee Cronin for last year’s Evil Dead Rise. That film was a masterstroke at the box office for Warner Bros, grossing $147 million worldwide. The series also spawned a TV show on Starz Ash Vs. Evil Dead.
This is one of two films in the series that are in the works, earlier this year Sebastien Vanicek was brought on to co-write and direct a new spin-off for the series as well.
Galluppi’s debut film The Last Stop In Yuma County debuts in theaters on May 10th and follows a traveling salesman who, while stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty — or cold, hard steel — to protect their bloodstained fortune.
We’ll have to see about all this when we get more details on either film that’s coming out.
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Source: Deadline
