The next Evil Dead film is now officially called Evil Dead Burn, and it’s heading our way in 2026.
The impressive success in cinemas – and on home formats – of last year’s Evil Dead Rise didn’t just resurrect the Evil Dead cinematic franchise, it made a further film a certainty.
And here comes the confirmation of it.
Evil Dead Burn is set to be the next chapter in the saga, and once again we have a new director stepping in to make it. French director Sebastien Vanicek has landed the job, having made his feature directorial debut with the movie Infested. Vanicek has also co-written the script for the new film along with Florent Bernard.
News of the new film was confirmed by the pair on their Instagram accounts, where they posted a picture of the screenplay’s cover. Fittingly, it looked like it’d been typed with a rickety old typewriter.
The director of Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin, had previously said that he was keen to make a further Evil Dead film himself. However, the success of his movie has led to him signing a deal with Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions to make a film there. No confirmation as of yet what that movie is, but it won’t be an Evil Dead film.
There is another movie in the saga on the way though. Francis Gallupi has been hired to make presumably the next movie after Evil Dead Burn, whatever that turns out to be.
What we don’t have at the moment is any casting for Evil Dead Burn, just that a script exists, and a director has been hired. We’re also assuming that the same distribution arrangement will remain in place, with Studiocanal putting the film out in the UK, and Warner Bros going for a cinema release in the US.
A few gaps to fill in, then. But given that it took a decade between the last two Evil Dead movies, you could correctly conclude that there’s a lot less faffing about this time.
More as we hear it.
