The Starz Original series Ash vs Evil Dead has released our first look at the King himself, Bruce Campbell (via Entertainment Weekly) in the 10-episode first season of the half-hour series executive produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell, the original filmmakers of the franchise, and Craig DiGregorio who will serve as executive producer and show runner.
Ash vs Evil Dead, which is currently in production in New Zealand, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead and is set to premiere on Starz in the fall of 2015.
?It?s The Searchers with carnage and mayhem,? Campbell says of the new show. ?I?m relegated a little bit into the John Wayne mode these days with my team?the young, virile, evil fighters who will pair up with Ash and take on this nemesis: this never ending, ever evolving nemesis.?
Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons ?personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its ?Evil? grip.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, ?Burn Notice?) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (?Salem,? ?Spartacus?) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago (?Touch,? Meet the Fockers) 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.
Below, find our usual gallery with comments from Campbell, Raimi and Tapert on everything you need to know about Ash vs. Evil Dead. Ash vs. Evil Dead will likely premiere its first footage at San Diego Comic-Con, where it’ll take over Room 6A of the San Diego Convention Center at 6 p.m.
