Campbell also echoed those sentiments when he appeared at Wizard World in Nashville. Regardless, it resulted in one of the greatest movie monster brawls in horror history, even if it didn't happen on-screen.According to Comicbook, Robert Englund believed that the film didn’t get made because Sam Raimi was keen on Ash winning the epic battle. Writer Jeff Katz called The Nightmare Warriors, "a Crisis level event," and at times it feels more like the horror equivalent of Crisis on Infinite Earths than a true sequel to Freddy vs. Opposing them are Ash Williams and a group of individuals known as the Nightmare Warriors - survivors of previous Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th films, including Alice and Tommy Jarvis. Proving to be even more ambitious than the prior title, this story features Freddy and Jason being resurrected by the US Government to use as weapons, only for Freddy to use the Necronimicon to rewrite reality with himself as its leader. The story sold well enough to warrant a sequel, the six-issue comic Freddy vs. What results is a fight over the Necronomicon, culminating in a back and forth encounter that results in Freddy's resurrection and the three horror icons going head-to-head. Inevitably, the teens and Ash end up encountering Jason as he goes on a murdering rampage. Meanwhile, Ash Williams, working still at S-Mart, is sent to the Camp Crystal Lake S-Mart to train new employees. Freddy uses visions of Jason's mother to manipulate him into retrieving the book for him. Freddy is trapped in Jason's mind and realizes the only way to revive himself is through the Necronomicon, which is somewhere in the Voorhees house. Jason left off, with Jason killing off the last film's survivors. James Kuhoric and Jason Craig's Freddy vs. With the story treatment already written by writer Jeff Katz, the concept was recycled for a six-issue comic book mini-series. RELATED: The New Mutants Looks Like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Remake So right from the start, it’s creatively bankrupt." So they go, ‘What do you think about that?’ And we were like, ‘Great, Ash can kill ‘em both.’ There was a long pause, ‘Well actually that’s not something we can entertain.’ And we couldn’t control any other character, only control Ash - what these guys said, or what they did and you can’t kill either one. The Evil Dead series, Campbell elaborated on why he passed on the project. “We had a five-minute conversation with New Line Cinema about Ash vs. In a round-table interview at New York Comic-Con in preparation for the then-upcoming Ash vs. Campbell passed on the project, which left Freddy vs. However, the project reportedly died quickly when New Line Cinema - which owned the rights at the time to both Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th - approached Bruce Campbell about the project. After years of rumors about the project, Freddy vs.
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