Sam Raimi Reveals His Insane Plot for EVIL DEAD 4

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Before Ash Vs. Evil Dead went into development, there was a lot of talk regarding a fourth film in the Evil Dead horror franchise. Director Sam Raimi had been working on it for a while, and in a recent interview with Screencrush, Raimi revealed what his idea for Evil Dead 4 was, and it would have been completely insane! 

He was working on the script with his brother Ivan Raimi, and it combined two separate endings for Army of Darkness. In the theatrical version of the film, Ash makes it back home to the present day and ends up fighting a Deadite in S Mart. Then there's an alternate ending in which Ash screws up the spell, and he ends up waking up in a post-apocalyptic future.

Raimi revealed that Evil Dead 4 would have featured those two characters of Ash in parallel timelines. The film would have follows the stories for the Ash of the present, and the Ash in the future.

That’s actually a pretty damn brilliant idea that I would have loved to see. It’s such a cool and unique idea, but ultimately Raimi felt that it might have been confusing. Even though this is something that we will probably never see, it's OK, because I'm still way excited for Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Who knows, though — maybe if the series is a big hit and it continues on, this could be an idea that Raimi decides to implement somewhere down the line.

What do you think about the double Ash parallel storyline? Just in case you've never seen the alternate ending, here ya go!

There were two endings. This is the one that did not air in theaters in the United States. They had the S-Mart ending. It appears from comments, only the U.S. featured the S-Mart ending, where he returns to the present, so this is for those fans who don't have the Blu-ray or DVD for to them this is "the alternate ending."