Sleepy Hollow Star Joins Bruce Campbell in Ash vs. Evil Dead
John Squires
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As the hotly anticipated Starz series “Ash vs. Evil Dead” gets ready to begin filming, the cast is filling out; and today we’ve got more news on that front. Known for her role on Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow,” Jill Marie Jones has just come aboard this undead ship!
Starz announced today that Jones (pictured right) will play the role of Amanda Fisher in the series, which serves as the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead and is set to film on location in New Zealand this spring and premiere on Starz in late 2015.
Following the grisly murder of her partner, disgraced Michigan State Trooper Amanda Fisher sets out to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility for the crime. But as she soon learns, Ash and his cohorts may be mankind’s only hope against the plague of the dead.
Jones joins the previously announced Ray Santiago, as Ash’s loyal sidekick Pablo Simon Bolivar, and Dana DeLorenzo, as moody wild child Kelly Maxwell. The two team up with Ash in his quest to save the world from the Deadites.
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The Starz Original series “Ash vs Evil Dead” will be 10 half-hour episodes. Bruce 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.
Raimi will direct the first episode of “Ash vs Evil Dead,” which he wrote with Ivan Raimi (Darkman, Army of Darkness, Drag Me to Hell), Craig DiGregorio (“Workaholics,” “Chuck”), and Tom Spezialy (“Chuck,” “Reaper,” “Desperate Housewives”). Raimi will also serve as executive producer along with Rob Tapert (Evil Dead, “Spartacus,” “Xena: Warrior Princess”) and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) along with Craig DiGregorio (“Workaholics,” “Chuck”), who will serve as executive producer/showrunner. Ivan Raimi will co-executive produce, and Aaron Lam (“Spartacus”) will serve as producer.
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