Sam Raimi's career spans a wide array of genres, from the horror-comedy cult classic "The Evil Dead" and its subsequent sequels to well regarded films like "A Simple Plan" and the "Spider-Man" comic book trilogy that made him a household name. While he's tackled some wildly different material over the years, one mainstay of his career is a long history of collaboration with B-movie legend Bruce Campbell. Their long partnership goes back to Raimi's directorial debut "It's Murder!," and it was cemented in the "Evil Dead" trilogy with Campbell's leading turn as chief Deadite foe Ash Williams. If there's a new Raimi outing, there's a pretty good chance Campbell's somewhere in it,...
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- 5/5/2022
- by Jeff Ewing
- Slash Film
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell have been firm friends for 45 years, and they were integral to each others success thanks to the Evil Dead trilogy. The duo have collaborated on twelve projects dating from Raimi’s college film It’s Murder! in 1978 when Campbell played the marquee role of Man on Bicycle to a brief cameo as a guard in 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful.
In fact, the majority of Campbell’s appearances in Raimi’s movies have been very brief, but the most famous are his trifecta of minor supporting characters in the Spider-Man trilogy. The cult favorite actor played the ring announcer for Peter Parker’s wrestling debut in the first installment, a rude usher in the sequel and a waiter in the third chapter, which isn’t what you’d call groundbreaking stuff.
However, in a recent interview when asked to pick which Spider-Man cameo was his favorite,...
In fact, the majority of Campbell’s appearances in Raimi’s movies have been very brief, but the most famous are his trifecta of minor supporting characters in the Spider-Man trilogy. The cult favorite actor played the ring announcer for Peter Parker’s wrestling debut in the first installment, a rude usher in the sequel and a waiter in the third chapter, which isn’t what you’d call groundbreaking stuff.
However, in a recent interview when asked to pick which Spider-Man cameo was his favorite,...
- 10/27/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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