Xena director to do new feature film

June 16, 1998

Wonder how much this guy's getting paid

Sam Raimi's hyper-kinetic, bathos-ridden directorial style hasn't been seen on the big screen since the middling The Quick and the Dead, and he hasn't done anything in the SF/Fantasy/Horror genre since Army of Darkness. However, he'll be up to his old zoom tricks in Practical Demonkeeping, due most likely in 2000 or 2001.

The film is an adaptation of Chris Moore's novel of the same name, about a young immortal named Travis, who comes to Pine Grove with a demon named Catch. Travis meets up with the surly, quirky characters who inhabit the town while trying to find some way to send his demon back to Hell before it eats someone else.

Ed Herman (Robocop) is writing the script.

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