ASH VS. EVIL DEAD Casts Female Lead
Girlfriends and Sleepy Hollow actress Jill Marie Jones is set to star alongside Bruce Campbell in the Starz series Ash Vs. Evil Dead. She will be taking on the lead female role in the story.
Campbell is set to reprise his role as the title character Ash, “a stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the past three decades 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.”
Jones will play a character named Amanda Fisher, and thanks to THR we have some information on the character that offers up even more new plot information. Fisher is described as a “disgraced Michigan state trooper who, following the grisly murder of her partner, sets out to find Ash and prove his responsibility for the crime. But as she soon learns, Ash and his cohorts may be mankinds only hope against the plague of the evil dead.”
Jones also joins Ray Santiago (Touch, Meet the Fockers) and Dana DeLorenzo (Growing Up Fisher), who are basically going to play a couple of Ash’s sidekicks. Sam Raimi is directing the pilot, and it will premiere some time later this year. Some additional information of the series was released yesterday, and if you missed it, you can read up on it here.