Although his schedule is currently filled by his role on "Burn Notice" and an upcoming "Burn Notice" prequel TV movie starring his character Sam Axe, Bruce Campbell would like to make a sequel to his 2008 comedy horror film, "My Name Is Bruce" with some of the biggest names in the horror genre: namely Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger from "Nightmare on Elm Street") and Kane Hodder (Jason from several "Friday The 13th" films).
When asked by The Los Angeles Times about the status of “Bruce vs. Frankenstein” and whether it would be "'The Expendables' of horror," Campbell replied "Yeah, 'The Expendables,' or more like the 'It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' of horror. I want to get so many horror movie stars that people can’t possibly not see the movie."
"I want to give them other stuff to do," continued Campbell. "I want to have Kane Hodder be very particular about what he eats. I want Robert Englund to be a tough guy, like he knows tae kwon do or something. I want to find out the hidden sides of all these people. Some will play themselves, some will play alternate characters as well. I may approach Kane Hodder to play Frankenstein. He could be Kane Hodder himself fighting himself as Frankenstein. It could be crazy."
"It’s a silly concocted story that we hope to do maybe in a year or so," added Campbell. "My breaks between 'Burn Notice' have been getting tighter because they’ve been adding episodes. They’re trying to trap me like a rat in the TV world, and I might just let them. There’s a script, it just kind of blows right now, so no one’s really seeing it. We gotta work on it. Definitely shoot in Oregon all on a stage. It’s like the '300' of horror comedies. We want to make it a whole world. Someone’s gotta take Frank down for good."
Campbell also briefly spoke about the new Blu-ray release of the original "Evil Dead" film.
"Blu-ray’s just a logical extension of the next best thing that’s available to put ['Evil Dead'] out on," said Campbell. "This is actually the first time anyone’s seen what the hell this movie looks like, and it doesn’t look that bad. It’s not a bad-looking little horror movie because Sam [Raimi], firstly, supervised [the transfer] and made it look like it always should have. If you had gone into a theater and seen the original 35 mm print in the early ’80s in New York, they were all torn to shreds. You saw scenes that were missing and jumped and film that was scratched and destroyed at any midnight showings for years. They didn’t take good care of the prints. They would rip and they would cut the damaged parts out and just splice them back together. These were old-time New York projectionists; they didn’t care. They had a screening at 9 o’ clock. Something had to go through the projector at 9 o’clock."
"The Evil Dead" Blu-ray is currently out in stores.
