EXCLUSIVE: Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) has been tapped to put in writing and direct a brand new Evil Dead film for Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures, sources inform Deadline.
The undertaking is described solely as an authentic story that Galluppi developed and delivered to Raimi and crew. No phrase on a plot or who all shall be producing, because it’s early days right here.
In a press release to Deadline, Rami did inform us, “Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence. He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
Evil Dead is, in fact, Raimi’s horror franchise going again to 1981’s same-name movie starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, a combatant of varied supernatural entities. That pic grew right into a trilogy, additionally spurring the creation of Starz’s Ash vs. Evil Dead and quite a lot of different initiatives. The most up-to-date, standalone movie Evil Dead Rise from writer-director Lee Cronin, grossed greater than $147M worldwide final yr when it hit theaters through Warner Bros, after launching at SXSW.
At current, Galluppi’s Evil Dead movie is one in every of two within the works. Earlier this yr, Ghost House tapped Sébastien Vaniček(Infested) to co-write and direct a brand new spin-off for the franchise, as we had been additionally first to report.
Galluppi’s debut function, crime thriller The Last Stop In Yuma County, follows a touring salesman who, whereas stranded at a rural Arizona relaxation cease, is thrust right into a dire hostage scenario by the arrival of two financial institution robbers with no qualms about utilizing cruelty — or chilly, laborious metal — to guard their bloodstained fortune. Pic premiered at Fantastic Fest and shall be launched by Well Go USA Entertainment on May tenth.
In addition to quite a lot of award-winning shorts, like High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project, the up-and-coming style filmmaker has beforehand been tapped to helm a number of music movies for the L.A.-based indie rock band Mt. Joy.
Galluppi is repped by UTA and Anonymous Content.