An Interview with Ted Raimi director of Playing Dead
By Dan
Friday March 5, 2010
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to chat with Ted Raimi who most of us might be more familiar with as a very talented actor. He started out
in his brother Sam’s films and has built quite a career for himself
with a very diverse resume in both film and television. Being the horror
fan that I am, I personally am a huge fan of his work from Invader Zim
to Evil Dead, Ted has been in some of my all time favorite films and
television. But in this conversation we focus more on his great new
webseries Playing Dead which just wrapped its first season.
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I know you planning on doing 8 episode season, any plans for season 2
yet?
Yes, Ms. Keilly has jotted some things down already for Season 2, and
I’ve been helping with some story ideas for the season. But whether
she’ll take those ideas I don’t know it’s really her show. We do
know that we are going to kill some more celebrities in season 2. We
are going to up the ante. I’ll probably get killed in season 2,
possibly Bruce Campbell, possibly Lucy Lawless, we’ll see, I’ll
bring all my old pals together and I’ll murder them one by one.
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I heard that you are working on a script with Bruce Campbell, could you
tell us about that?
No, I’m not working on a script with him, but I am going to be in a
Bruce Campbell movie of his. I can only tell you that I’m playing a
very beloved character. Anymore than that I cannot say. It’s for
Dark Horse Entertainment. I can’t say anymore or the goons from Dark
Horse will come and get me. They will fly down from Portland with their
cups of coffee in hand and kill me. That’s next for me in terms of
pictures, but until then I’m going to be just writing this new web
series and looking forward to this stuff in New Media that I get to do.
It’s a new part of my life and I love it.
News submitted by Barbara Davies