Ash versus the evil dead
Then again, don’t rule anything out, either. Campbell is having a hard time reconciling the fact.
#Ash versus the evil dead series#
So, what was it? Was it a dream? Did Ash suddenly wake up after the rift into another dimension was opened to a cabin filled with dead friends? Sadly, these questions may never be answered one may have to leave it all up to speculation until the end of time…or, at least, when Universal grants the Ash vs Evil Dead crew permission to talk about Darkness in the series itself. Bruce Campbell has stated that although they couldn’t get the rights to directly reference anything from the film in the series that Ash, in some way, shape or form still had that experience he had in Army of Darkness.
That fact alone is very strange, but stranger still is how Ash actually uses terms from the third Evil Dead installment, such as his “boomstick.” Furthermore, scenes from Evil Dead 2 are seen throughout the show, being that the showrunners were able to obtain the rights, and at the end of that film, Ash still goes back in time. Brushing it under the moldy, bloodstained rug, if you will. While Disney put a press release explaining that they would smash the Star Wars Expanded Universe into smithereens, the Evil Dead franchise took a more subtle route: by simply ignoring Army of Darkness. Referencing his valiant quest of Deadite slaying would on serve to help him in his new valiant quest of…well, getting laid and drinking beer. How could this be? How could Ash return from the damn Middle Ages and just never speak of it again? He makes up enough stories in the series to get laid. If the rights for Army of Darknesswere never secured from Universal, it may or may not mean that…take a deep breath before reading this… Army of Darkness, in regard to the universe in which Ash vs Evil Dead takes place, is no longer canon. So, if there were talks to do a sequel, what happened? Bruce Campbell has said in the past that him and Raimi had too many ideas to fit into just one movie, thus provoking them to walk over to Starz, a company which would allow all the violence from a feature-length production but in a 10-episode series. All referencing Army of Darkness could possibly do would be to add more backstory to Ash’s already convoluted and traumatic history.įor years, it seemed that an Army of Darkness 2 or Evil Dead 4 was imminent all one has to do is Google it and find numerous pieces of evidence for that, such as this article.
And look, at this point in the series, Ash isn’t going back to the Dark Ages.