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Sam Raimi tells Ellen Page to go to HELL!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. In a strange bit of coincidence I christened my brand new PS3 with a spin of the Blu-Ray edition of EVIL DEAD 2. I rewatched the movie... the first time I've rewatched it from beginning to end in a year or two... and was again struck by how inventive and just damn fun it is. It made me sad that the only real remnant of Raimi's style to make it into the SPIDER-MAN movies was that great operation scene in SPIDER-MAN 2.
So, then I get online, update a few stories and check the trades... which usually don't update over the weekend, but low and behold there was a helluva story waiting for me.
I love Ellen Page and apparently so does Raimi... or maybe not. He is sending her to Hell, apparently. She has been cast as the lead in his return to horror, titled DRAG ME TO HELL, written by Sam and Ivan Raimi and set up at Universal.
Little is known about the movie, but I hope it's return to form and a chance for Sam to just let his hair down and have some damn fun. Thoughts?
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I'll go see a Uwe Boll movie. Note my conscious use of "movie" instead of "film" there.
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will it be true horror from Raimi.
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Is sweeping the nation!
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I'll go and see it, but can he re-capture the lightning in a bottle that was Evil Dead? We're rootin' fer ya buddy. You got my money for a ticket.
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it will only be good if she says Groovy
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So was EVIL DEAD 2.
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or just a 3 minute cameo?
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Even before Juno Ellen Page was amazing a couple of years back in the Canadian show ReGenesis when she was just a kid. Raimi should have fun with this. Let's hope......
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HARD.......HARD. will this movie have twenty five of his illegitimate children in it for cameos like Spider Man 3?
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It's funny because it's true
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'Course, love the man; and always interested in a new depiction of hell. Wondering about the tone; trademark Raimi horrifying comedy, or will he aim for straight horror? Or maybe, strange and upsetting horror like Evil Dead 2 was when it wasn't being so god damned funny?
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...that this is actually the code name for Evil Dead 4. Utter bullshit I'm sure, plus I'd imagine that Campbell would be tied up with season 2 of Burn Notice in the very near future, but it sure would be nice to see the Raimi/Campbell combo revisit the Dead films once more at some point down the line. Regardless I hope this is a return to form for Raimi, I'm no Spider-Man hater (despite the crappy last film), but the last Raimi film I out and out loved was A Simple Plan. After that he just seemed to lose it somewhere, so hope this film means he's finally got his mojo back. We'll see.
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I'm terrified someone's going to 'Nolanize' Spidey. I still can't make a lick of sense out of the final action sequence of Batman Begins. At least the Burton and Schumacher installments occasionally had high spirit (if you ignore Batman and Robin). Any future director who wants to puts together a good action sequence should watch Three Kings and Children of Men first.
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He'll be busy sucking on Osama Bin Laden's firey cock. Yum yum TomBodet! Yum yum loser!
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But a i fucking hate Ellen Page. Smart ass kid...
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I love Ellen Page and I'm glad she hasn't decided to turn into an indie-film queen. We already have a Parker Posey. (of course, she was in Superman Returns but even art house hipsters gotta eat)
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Feb 10, 2008 5:39:55 AM CST
I like the theory about this being the Blue Harvest title for Ev
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Bruce Campbell as the wise cracking Ash. Ellen Page as his wise cracking daughter. Works for me.
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Just like little miss sunshine, yet knowing Hollywood it may take home more Oscar nods than TWBB. I favor Page's performance in Hard Candy over Juno, shit i even liked the scene in X3 in which she taunted Juggernaut by calling him dickhead.Hopefully Sam will redeem himself after the fiasco that is Spiderman 3 AKA Disco Emo Peter Parker.
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I'm not all that taken with Page but so many other people seem to be so this is a real coup for Raimi's return to horror. As for Raimi's style taking a backseat of late, I think that's been a smart move for him - to use it sparingly, not continue to make it the center of his films. I think he took his style as far as he could - or should - in Quick and the Dead and dialing it back with A Simple Plan proved a wise move. Raimi's Spidey films were the movies he was born to make - a perfect marriage of the visual stylization of his early films and the dramatic progress with actors that he had made with films like Simple Plan, The Gift and For the Love of the Game (whether you liked that film or not, it once again proved that Raimi could work outside his familiar zone). Raimi set the standard for Spider-Man on screen - it'll be hard for anyone following in his shoes to do as much justice to the comic. Please, no 'Nolanized' Spider-Man films for me. Looking forward to Dark Knight but the same approach to Spider-Man would be totally wrong.
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But considering all his stuff besides Spiderman,Evil Dead,The Gift and A Simple Plan are CRAP I highly doubt it.
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People keep on complaining about "emo" Parker but do they realize it was a joke? I mean, it was supposed to be funny. It's camp, a kind of humor usually found in comic books and thus in a movie based on a comic book. If you don't like camp, fine, but you really have no business watching a superhero film (all three Spiderman films had their share of camp, the first film being the one who handled it the clumsiest). Anyway, what I'm trying to say is get a sense of humor.
Oh, and I disagree about Raimi dialing back his style for Spiderman. Go back and watch those action sequences and you can see him clearly using his crazy ass zooming camera. Just because his style isn't old school horror, doesn't mean it wasn't pure Raimi. -
I've wanted to see that in a live action movie ever since I watched one of a few hundred anime hentai movies. I think this would be perfect here as Page's character is caught somewhere in Hell and has her clothes torn off by snake size dicks that proceed to penetrate her every orifice. That would be DOPE!!!!!
Unfortunately that would also require a XXX rating and I don't think Ms. Page would be into it. That's something I'd like to see, though, an A-List star that does a porno to shock everyone which would (in this society) guarantee a much bigger star and a higher paycheck due to the shock value plus would be the BEST selling porn title ever. Any semi-famous or A-list actresses reading this? Don't you want it? Don't you want it?!! Don't you WANT IT?!?! DON'T YOU WANT IT?!?!!!! - ARRF!! -
Let's hope this fucker isn't a PG slapstick comedy like that film was.
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I'm not thinking she would look all that great fellas, better left to the imagination methinks
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There were real problems with Spider-man 3. It had no life about it, as though Raimi phoned it in after putting all his efforts into 2. Spides 3 should have had a new director.
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what a shocker
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Bout time
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If I wanted to see Harry with cum all over his face I'd go with him to one of his studio junkets.
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I like her.
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Kitty Pryde being in Spider-Man 4! Just like in the Ultimate version of Spider-Man. Holy Shit! You geeks will giz all over you legs when you find out this true. Just remember, Blassy told you pencil neck geeks first.
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Waaaay underated. Great Film. His baseball movie was watchable, only because it featured Kelly Preston, the UBER MILF.
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Like a Pedophile.
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The first two Spider-Man films were great and a lot of fun. The third... not so much. But Spider-Man doesn't need to be "Nolanized." He's a much lighter character (though with plenty of angst of course) than Batman, which Raimi captured well. Spider-Man doesn't need a super moody, "realistic" movie. He just needs one better than Spider-Man 3. But Spider-Man 3 being bad means the dude made a bad movie, not that he's sucked for years and years or that his entire take on Spider-Man was wrong from the start. Might I also add... I love you Ellen Page.
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When the camera zoomed at him after he was first created was pretty Evil Dead I thought.
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it sux
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But I think she is danger of being type casted as a smartass teen. We are still yet to see what range she has. But so far so good, for her - she's definitely one to watch.
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Then I stab a picture of Ellen Page with a big knife. Stab her right in the crotch! Yeah.
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Not really, I just had to say something. I hate being left out.
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without corporate intervention, focus groups, comics geeks and Raimi hating posters, the brothers may just pull off a great little film.
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Otherwise known as, DRAG ME TO SEE THE LATEST KATE HUDSON MOVIE!
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is an over actor and JUNO is way overrated. and no she isn't in danger of being type casted of being a smart ass teen... she already is!
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Ted Raimi
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is not going to be Evil Dead 4. Why ruin the Dead movies by casting a bitch like Ellen Page? She's about as awesome as Kirsten Dunst!
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that made it to Spider-Man 1&2 is the absolutely bloody harsh physical punishment and abuse dished out to the leading man.
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With Hard Candy (castrates a pedophile), American Crime (tortured for months in a basement), and now this. She's the female equivalent of Mel Gibson.
"I'm twisting my nipples and it HURTS! IT HURTS!!!" -
... and now Ellen Page is joining me? How super!
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And is about as attractive as a 12 yr old boy. WTF is wrong with you people? -
anyone who finds her attractive must be a homosexual pedophile!!!11!!!one1!
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WTf ? classyfred-army of darkness sucked? Its one of the best raimi movies , that also has the biggest cult followings ever...i dont see anything that sucks about it
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#3 would have been SO f'n unbelieveable if Raimi wasn't forced to include Venom. Imagine being nearly halfway finished shooting your movie, then have some idiot who has power over the property (I'm lookin at YOU Avi Arad, ya prick), come and tell you that you have to include a character that you swore you'd never use, or you're going to be replaced by someone who will. Imagine what #3 would have been like with the Vulture. Imagine the Conner/Lizard arc finally taking place. Imagine what could have been if not for meddling fools.I'm done my rant about Avi (coughprickcough)Arad now. Apologies.Ellen Page is smarmy, and is, IMHO, what is wrong with so many (but not all) young girls today. SO... It's cool to be a bitch? OK. Just remember that people are eventually going to treat you like a bitch when that charming novelty wears out.Jeebus, what was in my coffee this morning?That said, I think she would be brilliant in a Sam Raimi horror. Just for the fact that she is a little firecracker that can spout profanities and wit, much like Bruce Campbell. I just hope that she can handle the action scenes like BC can.
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I look forward to Sam's return to horror starring my new favorite actress, Ellen "Kitty Pryde" Page.
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Spiderman 2 was fucking awesome, fuckers!
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both villains sucked to me.Who the fuck wants to see sand flying through the air?The sand man wasnt cool in the least, and we all know how they screwed up venom..by having him in the last 5 min of the film. Venom shouldve been the whole movie...and if not a different villain then. Ive no high hopes for SPiderman 4
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The heaven of my hot laser lovin' all up in her tight, warm, and wet parts.
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She'll look even better in 5 years. Have you guys seen Alicia Witt recently? I'd love to be her homicide investigative partner ...
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Talk about a film that relied totally on circumstance and coincidence to have more than a few of its major scenes rely on in order to fully develop. There just happens to be a hole in a science lab 'exactly' where Sandman is running...the alien goo just happens to land next to Peter and Mary Jane...Eddie Brock just happens to be in the church underneath Parker when he's tearing off the suit...this was a major let down when compared to the superior part II. I also don't think the campy nature of the film (while only in parts) was intentional, given the fact that it would have totally separated it from the themes developed in the previous two installments (which it did). Spider-Man's story was complete at the end of the second, so they naturally just had to add a little nonsensical conflict to keep the story running. It was like finishing "Saving Private Ryan" only to have an old German Nazi return to the Capt. Miller's gravesite and start shooting at the old Private Ryan in order to 'finish some old work.' Just unnecessary.
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holy hell that news just brightened my day
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It seems that this would be a good comeback for Rami Since Spiderman 3 sucked. Plus from seeing the trailer to Smart People Ellen Page seems like a versitle actress.
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Bent over my table at angles some would call obscene, impossible, madness, screaming my name in pleasurepain, calling me daddy, begging for more. (I'm sorry, I really need help.)
Oh, btw, everyone do see HARD CANDY. Especially those of us too old to be thinking of the sweet, hot, young Ellen in the way I'm thinking of her right now. -
I would have rather seen Ellen Page get cast oppostie Megan Fox in Diablo Cody's next picture, Jennifer's Body, which has a horror bent to it as well. But I do wish Sam all the best on this project, anything to wash out the bad taste of Spiderman 3.
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Contact your bookies now, kids! The payout'll be sweet!
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...Anyone remember how Dark Castle snapped up Swank and Berry post oscars for cheap horror flicks, and how crap they turned out? Ghost House has an even worse track record than Dark Castle.
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Went from Oscar to Cinemax Grade horror.
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in a talk back about Sam Raimi. Because Alicia Witt is who should have played Mary Jane.
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Ellen = Ugly Lesbian. Juno SUX. Raimi SUX now.
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I agree it wasn't as good as the first two, I'd even agree that it was clear that Raimi's heart wasn't fully in it (probably because he wanted to use the Vulture, and was instead forced to use Venom who is really nothing more than a cool design with no discernible character), but it was still an entertaining movie. I liked it, though I admit it wasn't nearly as good as the first two which are genre-defining classics at this point.
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The final fight between Spidey and The Green Goblin in Spider-Man 1? That was shot in pure Raimi-Style.
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I disagree with you completely, but your name rocks. Everyone should be forced to watch that movie, and killed if they do not laugh.
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I simply do not understand the hate for Spiderman 3. Sure, you don't have to like it (I didn't, particularly), but it's not *terrible*, especially compared to other garbage that comes out. I mean, what's the big deal about Peter Parker looking greasy and dancing when he is supposed to be an unlikeable jerk? Or with all the "coincidences" that drive the plot? It's based on a comic book series, for chrissakes, and there's a good reason people treat comic books like cocoa puffs (a rare, guilty pleasure for adults, or something for kids): they are full of fantastic, unbelievable and often poorly-plotted events. None of which is to say that you *have* to enjoy spiderman. But hysterical questions like "can anything undo the damage of Spidey 3" are something I find baffling. So maybe people expected an A, but Raimi delivered a B (or even a C), so now those same people are giving Spiderman 3 (and increasingly the whole spiderman series, and even, bizarrely, Raimi himself) an F-. Weird.
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What makes you hate her that much? Speaking objectively, and as a Canadian, (a) she's attractive, (b) seems genuinely affable (at least in interviews, which many actors don't), and (c) I can't remember the third thing. I used to hate all successful people too, until I became prime minister.
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Ellen looks like a 12-yr-old boy
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I just can't help feeling this will be more of a Spiderman-ized version of his old style. And as much as Ellen Page seems like a good actress, I just can't see Raimi directing her.
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Yeah, Alicia would have been a great Mary Jane if they had the balls to go with anyone other than a marquis name like Dunst. Alicia went from Urban Legend cusp of stardom to TV roles. But really she deserves more cuz she is beautiful and can act. Maybe just a bad agent. But still she's what keeps me watching Law and Order.
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have been just Venom and Green Goblin 2. Peter gets the symbiot from Jameson's shuttle, gets dark and kills Harry (Goblin). Then throws off suit which gets attached to Brock who becomes Venom. Then Parker defeats Venom -- movie ends. Simple and it works.
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I seriously don't get all the love being thrown her way...Juno was a really weak attempt at a Wes Anderson movie. And she was annoying as all hell.
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I'll definitely see this since Raimi's directing it - I can't imagine it'll be as bad as the crap his production house has put out. I'm mixed on Ellen Page - she always plays the "very smart for her age" roles, and I actually wanted her to die at the end of Hard Candy. Kitty Pryde was probably her least annoying role.
It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out, though. Prior to Spiderman none of Raimi's films (to my knowledge) were mainstream. I love Evil Dead 2 - don't get me wrong - and I enjoyed Darkman - but I have trouble seeing him doing a mainstream horror film. The casting of Ellen Page seems to be a move to try to get a bigger audience (and it'll probably help some). I'll definitely watch it, though. -
I would SO totally watch and own that movie.
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who hate on A SIMPLE PLAN and THE GIFT. Both of those are underrated and a simple plan has some of the best perfomances for acting I've ever seen. http://tinyurl.com/pv8do
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That movie blew.
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She's, too me, a Thoira Birch clone.
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You mean the way Angelina Jolie won an Oscar and then killed her career with Gone In 60 Seconds? Or the way Charlize Theron won an Oscar and then killed her career with Aeon Flux? Or maybe the way Halle Berry won an Oscar and then killed her career with Catwoman?
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evil dead 3 was bollox..doesn't belong with the other 2...the first 2 had horror, gore and comedy and some great camera angles...army was a waste of time..shop smart..shop S-mart was the only good thing in that shower of shite film..it was too comedic!
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her career being in X Men?
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That "surrounded by primitives" line was pretty good.
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Yeah on reflection..it has 3-4 funny lines but what happened to the scares and the gore? I was hoping for something darker and scarier than a slapstick film that doesn't even compare to the worst 3 stooges routines
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I'm betting Ellen Page would be quite happy with Paquin's "failed" career too.
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...is NOT winning the Oscar and suffering the same career death that befell Jodie Foster when she didn't win the Oscar for Taxi Driver
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I haven't been on a studio junket - since the Cannes junket the Cannes before FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING came out. And the only come on my face was from seeing Gandalf face down the Balrog 7 months before it was released - and my spontaneous ejaculation which impregnated my face with one helluva grin!
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Cum - not come
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you didn't like his latest movie. I really enjoyed Spidey 3, but even if you hated it, that doesn't mean you have to automatically hate the director. People who say Raimi sucks just because of Spidey 3 reveal more about their lives than Sam Raimi's art.
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but when have I been known for staying on topic anyway? I'm watching the grammy's and Kayne West is stupid little bitch. Too bad his mouth didn't stay wired shut. What an egotistical prick
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Sam Raimi got his: Spider-Man 3.
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Because i ran out of fantasy object lately...
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you mentioned happen to be drop dead gorgeous. Berry, Jolie and Theron are f'ing hot! Juno? Not so much. I"m telling you, she's another Thora Birch. Just like in Ghost World, only Scarlett's career took off and Thora? Not so much. Why is that? Go back to the hot piece of ass theory.
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Ellen was so cute as Kitty Pryde.
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She is manish and looks like the girl from Napoleon Dynamite back when she was in movies like Corrina, Corrina, Andre The Giant, and Best Kevin Costner movie ever. She makes me hope that ever pregnant teenager gets thrown down a set of stairs, which would have been a much better ending to Juno, AK. (Someone should have done that to Diablo Codies lesbian mother after her turkey baster conception).
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...but then as a fellow Haligonian that's just cheering the hometown gal
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She's like, 4 feet tall, and looks 9. You're all preverts.
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Feb 11, 2008 12:53:07 AM CST
Something tells me that Ellen Page wouldn't mind having the "fai
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Um, can you put that "something" into words for us? Because right now, I can't imagine anyone wanting to fail that hard.
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If you didn't like Evil Dead just don't bother with Sam Raimi movies. Evil Dead is always going to be his highpoint, so if his best isn't for you don't bother.
As for me though, loved Evil Dead, loved Spider Man 1 and 2, and developed the same crush on Ellen Page any self respecting nerd did after Juno. Will see. -
Gotta love the Alicia Witt love. Who can resist that pouty mouth of hers? Dunno was right - she would have made a much better Mary Jane, better than either Dunst or Howard.
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...I couldn't help thinking of the smarmy, self-righteous, ever-petulant son from NIP/TUCK. Ellen Page acts just like that fucking guy - same mannerisms, same line delivery. Same bitch.
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She's got a mongoloid face and she's shaped like the letter "H". What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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Raimi is the shit. Can't wait for this one!
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to bed
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It better be gross and rated R.
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Otherwise what would be the point.
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Especially with the budget he has now. SWWEEEEEt!
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That's still making me laugh.
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although I'd consider sitting through that movie again WORSE than Hell.
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...yes indeed...firey red...beautiful...good actress...and a classically trained pianist. Not kidding...check it out (she did a movie where she portrays a concert pianist teenager going thru teenager things while trying to get accepted at Juliard or something similar...it's actually her playing too!).
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Evil Dead 2 was the peak of Raimi's fun filmmaking. AOD had it's moments, but overall, Evil Dead 2 is one of the most joyous guilty pleasures in film history. Funny, Scarry, and a helluva ride. We saw flashes of Sam's inventive camera work in Darkman and some others, but ultimately, after AOD, I wouldn't be looking forward to an Evil Dead 4...unless on the off chance that they may actually take it from the original end of AOD. At least that would show some Balls.
Can't bitch about his job with the Spidey Flix though. S3 was so so, but still a damned solid franchise...I'm just thinking the Evil Dead 2 Sam was really probably more of a lightening strike than a trend. -
those comments creeped me out. Then, they reminded me of that episode of the Larry Sanders Show, Phil's Gay Jokes Go Too Far, where Phil the head writer is struggling with his sexuality before "making amends" with whatever Scott Thompson's character was called.
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She was pretty damn good in that one. Story went a bit south in the end but that wasn't her fault. And I love that most of you think she IS the Juno character. What are you basing this on? The 10 seconds you remember from X3? Geez man. Maybe it's good that my posts generally get ignored. I wouldn't want to incur the wrath of the TBs!
Shaped like an 'H'? That's a great putdown, but it's not like she's 30 and has filled out! Jesus! -
not just 'cause she's "flamin'" but because I'll always have the strong memory of her in Dune when I saw it as a kid (and she was a kid) shrieking "He IS the Kwisatz Haderach!" Creepy child!
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