Ouch! Lily Collins Won’t Be Able To Do EVIL DEAD Remake

The first actress to be cast in the EVIL DEAD remake, Lily Collins, had to leave the project, according to @TheInSneider, due to scheduling conflict. So now the project is back to zero cast and the search begins again..
This is probably a good thing since Collins was one of the worst actresses last year in my book, for her performance in Abduction. Seeing her not being able to convince me that she’s scared as sh*t in EVIL DEAD remake would make for a terrible horror movie watching experience..

EVIL DEAD remake developed by Ghost House and Mandate Pictures…
Production starts this March in New Zealand.
Remember, this EVIL DEAD remake sadly won’t feature Ash, but it’s produced by the creative team behind the original, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.
Directed by Fede Alvarez who co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues, rewritten by Diablo Cody.
here’s the plot details according to Movieholeagain for ya..

Mia and David, estranged siblings who have recently lost their mother (Mia’s taking it the hardest being that she’s the one who spent most days at the hospital watching her mother deteriorate) have reunited, along with some old friends and his David’s fiancée, for an intervention at THAT old cabin.

A big storm sets in. Everyone heads to the cabin. The book of the dead is found, and arrogant Eric (one of the friends along for the trip) takes the most interest in transcribing passages from it. Always the dicks that bring the trouble, right?

Meanwhile Mia struggles with her newly sober self — BIG TIME. She was going slightly loopy anyway from a recent overdose (one in which she technically died from but was brought back) so no surprise that Mia is the first and worst to go bananas. And no surprise either that nobody believes her crazy claims of coyote dogs and trees attacking her!

Convinced this is just a crazy druggo coming to grips with her new reality, the gang insist Mia stay put. As far as they’re concerned, she’ll do anything to get out of the cabin and back to the comfort of a bar.

The stuff Mia starts seeing (she sees in the mirror a bloody face with a cracked skull sticking out) and doing (vomiting blood and vile at her friends; getting trigger-happy with a rifle) is alarming; but again, David and co say she’s not leaving until she’s cold turkey. Bad idea obviously — the more time in the cabin, the further the demon that lives there can climb inside her body and take it over.

Covered in burns and blisters, and with bloodshot eyes, and complete with a new macabre grin, Mia goes all Jack Torrance on her mates. Even after she’s injected with tranquilizers, the wild young woman is still a menace. They have no choice but to lock her in.. well, “Evil Dead” fans will know what that’s about.

There’s some fun moments. With great effects, they could look a treat. For instance, when the gang do decide its time to get Mia to the hospital, David grabs the girl and they drive to the bridge they came in on… Only its gone now! Water has swallowed it whole.

The demons plan, of course, is to take everyone’s soul by the end of the film (with Mia’s help). There’s no Ash to make sure that doesn’t happen, so it’s grim..