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Silly girls - you need to keep up! I posted this over at TX and Xenite back in November! :rolly2:

What do we think Sam, Rob and the boys will do next, now that a) "Spidey" is finished shooting, b) XWP etc. are done, and c) Bruce's book tour just finished?

Here are some intriguing quotes:

From a news group/discussion list, from a fan who saw Rob Tapert’s appearance at the Hollywood Theatre for the Halloween showing of “The Evil Dead” :

"Rob did let on that he was able to say that in the near future, there was to be a collaborative project involving he, Sam, and Bruce, with Bruce starring . Whether or not it was to be a sequel to Evil Dead, he couldn't say."

Rob, quoted in "The Evil Dead Companion" in 2000:

“I think for Sam, Bruce and I, our best film experiences have been working together ... and I think we’ll all work together again some time.”

Bruce, in his autobiography:

“For me it (Pacific Renaissance) was the most creative atmosphere I have ever worked in. The directors, writing staff, and the actors all share a genuine desire to make a good show, and the producers, much to their credit, gave us the support and leeway to do it....Frankly I can never be far enough away from Hollywood. ... NZ represented a place where we could be free from studio interference, politics, parties, and misguided ambition.... I had grown weary of chasing that elusive Fame Train and was far more interested in revisiting those childhood summers of Super-8 films, when it wasn’t about money or status. I wasn’t working on Herc and Xena to advance my career – I was doing it for fun."

From Josh Becker's website:

"As to what script I'll shoot next, having just gotten to Oregon I'm immediately thinking about mine and Bruce's story, "Warpath," which is a western....Now I have to write a good script that Bruce would want to be in and help out with. I've got the treatment written and about 15 pages of the script, which I was noodling with yesterday. It's certainly a perfect location up here."

And: "Oh, and as to why would I see 'Pearl Harbor?' Of all the people in the world, Sam Raimi called me and asked me to go with him to the opening day matinee. Sam just wrapped 'Spiderman' and was eager to see a film again. Anyway, he liked 'PH' better than me."

And while I can't find the link, I do recall some interviews with Sam last year over the ruckus about slight changes to the Spider-Man mythos (like the web shooters) and his responses were basically that the director has to be true to his vision and do what he feels works best. Somehow, I suspect that while he will enjoy the fame and the $$ that accompany this A-List film, all the studio politics will frustrate him to some extent.

In fact, seems to me that the guys who always hated "the system" have all reached career heights/plateaus on their own, and are feeling a bit nostalgic about working together again. My prediction is that as they have in the past, their next project will be smaller, more independent, and removed from pressures/opinions of the studios, the press, the fans - something that they themselves enjoy doing and feel good about.