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

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

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

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 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 consciously wanted to tone down his style because of a desire to " get into the characters ' heads and follow them as real human beings in extraordinary circumstances ".

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

Work on a script for a further film has started although it was announced on July 13, 2011 that Raimi and Campbell would now shift focus to a remake of the original film.

After Crimewave was released to little audience or critical acclaim, Raimi and Tapert, knowing that another flop would further stall their already lagging careers, took Shapiro up on his offer.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

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

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

A few years later, Campbell and Raimi got together with family and friends and began work on The Evil Dead.

On July 13, 2011, Campbell announced that he would be producing the remake of The Evil Dead along with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert.

He later recorded an audio play adaptation of Make Love with fellow Michigan actors including longtime collaborator Ted Raimi.

Raimi and Co. managed to secure a shooting budget of less than $ 375, 000 and with the cast and crew, headed for a wilderness cabin in the woods near Morristown, Tennessee.

The limited edition Blu-ray with a newly restored picture was released on August 31, 2010 in the United States, featuring two discs with audio commentary with writer / director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell.

* Ted Raimi as Possessed Henrietta, Annie's possessed mother who uses her memories to lure her in order to kill her and everybody else, but gets killed when Ash stabs her through the chest with his chainsaw.

Raimi contacted his old friend Scott Spiegel, who had collaborated with Campbell and others on the Super-8 films they had produced during their childhood in Michigan.

Spiegel and Raimi wrote most of the film in their house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, where they were living with the aforementioned Coen brothers, as well as actors Frances McDormand, Kathy Bates, and Holly Hunter ( Hunter was the primary inspiration for the Bobby Jo character ).

At the film's wrap party, the crew held a talent contest, where Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell sang The Byrds ' " Eight Miles High ", with Nicotero on guitar.

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.

Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell.

Raimi returned to the horror genre with the seminal Evil Dead II ( which added slapstick humor to the over the top horror, showcasing his love of the Three Stooges ).

Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man ( 2002 ), which was adapted from the comic book series of the same name.

Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead.

The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s ( though Hudsucker was not produced for almost a decade ).

Raimi made cameo appearances in Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us.

The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, based on their experiences with Fargo.

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.

The movie has grossed over $ 800 million worldwide, spawning two sequels: Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, both directed by Raimi and both grossing roughly $ 800 million each.

Raimi will turn writing and directing duties over to first-time feature filmmaker, Fede Alvarez.

This amazing stop-motion sequence, never since equaled by a single individual, took over four months to complete, and helped to inspire an entire generation of subsequent filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tim Burton, Sam Raimi and James Cameron, among many others.

Universal Pictures was nervous on having Woo direct a feature, and sent in director Sam Raimi to look over the film's production and to take Woo's place as director if he were to fail.

Raimi has the same control over a host body that he would over his own.

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

Durant's finger collection developed over the Pfarrer and Raimi brothers drafts.

In his review for the Washington Post, Joe Brown wrote, " Though Raimi seems to be trying to restrain himself, his giddily sick sense of humor still pops out all over the place – Darkman is a frenetic funhouse ride that has you laughing and screaming at the same time ".

In 2006, Dynamite Entertainment published a cross over that pitted Darkman against Sam Raimi ’ s Ash Williams of the Evil Dead / Army of Darkness franchise.