While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production.

Universal, however, wanted a PG-13 rating, so Raimi made a few cuts and was still stuck with the MPAA's R rating.

Sam Raimi wanted to toss his hero, Ash, through a time portal, back into the Middle Ages.

In a recent interview with PC Magazine, Valve CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell said that they wanted to make a Half-Life feature film themselves, rather than hand it off to a big-name director like Sam Raimi, and that their recent Team Fortress 2 " Meet The Team " machinima shorts were experiments in doing just that.

* Frances McDormand as Julie Hastings: Raimi had wanted to work with Frances McDormand but the studio resisted this notion and almost cast Julia Roberts before Pretty Woman made her a star.

For Raimi, he wanted to emphasize Peyton / Darkman's arc over the course of the film.

However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

LoDuca sat down with Raimi and they went over the entire film, scene by scene.

Raimi turned down the offer, but De Laurentiis continued to be interested in the young filmmaker.

Director Sam Raimi later blamed himself and his visual style for the film's failure.

The critical success of Spaced paved the way for Wright and Pegg to move to the big screen with Shaun of the Dead, a zombie comedy which mixed a " Brit flick " romantic comedy style with homages to the horror classics of George A. Romero and Sam Raimi.

Sam Raimi has a wonderful visual style that lends itself easily to music.

" Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker said, " Raimi works from inside the cheerfully violent adolescent-male sensibility of superhero comics, as if there were no higher style for a filmmaker to aspire to, and the absence of condescension is refreshing.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

The film's production was not nearly as chaotic or strange as the production of the original, largely because of Raimi, Tapert and Campbell's additional film making experience.

However at Comic-Con International 2012, Raimi stated that he was no longer involved in the project, saying “ Actually, they don ’ t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director.

* Director of the Spider-Man films, Sam Raimi, has stated that Ock was intended to appear in the first film, teaming up with Green Goblin, but wasn't included because Raimi thought it " wouldn't do the movie justice to have a third origin in there.

Sam Raimi was hired to direct because Stone was impressed with his work on Army of Darkness ( 1993 ).

They part ways, because Bryson has to go and inform his superiors of what is going on, while Raimi does not want to go without his body.

Raimi was also inspired by the Universal horror films of the 1930s and 1940s because " they made me fear the hideous nature of the hero and at the same time drew me to him.

Raimi became extremely overheated, to the point that his costume was literally filled with liters of sweat ; special effects artist Gregory Nicotero describes pouring the fluid into several Dixie cups so as to get it out of the costume.

In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.

She then teaches him the basics of being a ghost and Raimi sets out to get his body back and save Bryson.

Raimi manages to save Bryson and get a helicopter to pick him up.

They will not do anything or get less frightened when Raimi dispossesses them, so they can be possessed again at any time.

In 1987, Raimi submitted the treatment to Universal Pictures which they liked, greenlighted a budget in the range of $ 8 – 12 million, and suggested that he get a screenwriter to flesh out the story.

Raimi and Yutani cancel the operation and attempt to get out of the building, along with Carpenter and Cale.

Raimi says that Ivan " has a good sense of character " and that he brought more comedy into the script.

Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.

In the 1990s Raimi moved into other genres, directing such films as the western The Quick and the Dead ( starring Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman ), the critically acclaimed crime thriller A Simple Plan ( 1998 ) ( starring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton ), and the romantic drama For Love of the Game ( 1999 ) ( starring Kevin Costner ).

30 Days of Night has been adapted into a film of the same name in 2007, starring Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, directed by David Slade and produced by Spider-Man director Sam Raimi.

Soon after, Alexander Volks himself puts Raimi into a machine to brainwash him, so he will become a new soldier for Project Z.

Raimi is not too far away, attempting to make it farther into the facility.

When Raimi kills Alexander's body, Gigi appears and gets pulled into Alexander's body by Volks ' Demon.

When Raimi prevents Project Z's launch, and later kills Alexander's body, Volks ' Demon pulls Gigi into Alexander's body.

For a long time, Sam Raimi had been interested in adapting a comic book into a film.

The process of developing his treatment into a screenplay was difficult with Raimi hiring ex-Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer based on his work on Navy SEALs.

Raimi and Tapert ran into conflicts with the studio during post-production.

30 Days of Night has been developed into a major motion picture, with Sam Raimi as producer.

Raimi follows them and destroys Volks ' Demon.

Human hosts have no memory of what occurs when Raimi possesses them.