“How much blood is there going to be? I went blind the other day shooting a scene,” said Bruce Campbell of his new Starz series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead.” “That’s how much blood there is on the show. I’ve been gagged once and I went blind.”
“If this came out as a movie, it would be unrated,” the actor explained to press gathered for the series TCA event. “The beauty of working with Starz is we have no content restriction whatsoever.”
“It was very important we found a network that was willing to go to the limit and really let us go anywhere we wanted with the humor, outrageous horror, crazy amounts of gore, which is one of the hallmarks of the Evil Dead films,” said Sam Raimi, who co-wrote and directed three Evil Dead motion pictures starring Campbell as Ash Williams.
Raimi also co-wrote and directed the first episode of “Ash Vs. Evil Dead,” which airs on Halloween. Nine more episodes will follow this year.
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Pay-cable channels like Starz and HBO are the best because creators can do things on series like “Game of Thrones,” “Girls,” and “Boardwalk Empire” that would earn filmmakers an NC-17.
“If [‘Ash Vs. Evil Dead’] came out as a movie, it would be unrated,” noted Campbell.
Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) plays Ruby, a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks. Also aboard is Ray Santiago (“Touch,”) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo (“A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas”) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past, and Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner.
