Bruce Campbell to Continue Being Named Bruce Campbell
You're gonna to make it after all!
Bruce Campbell has announced that he will star in a follow-up to My Name is Bruce, in which he played a comically exaggerated self-deprecating version of himself that saves a small town from a demon. In the sequel, Bruce Vs. Frankenstein, he’ll wind up in Europe where he, presumably, will save a small European town from a mad scientist and his monstrous creation. I’m not sure what got Campbell going on this, but if he wants to remake the rest of Abbott and Costello’s oeuvre while he’s at it (Bruce Campbell Chainsaws the Mummy, Bruce Campbell Wrestles the Invisible Man, The Wistful She-Bitch of Wagon Gap, etc.), I’m completely on board.
Honestly, though, My Name is Bruce wasn’t all that hot. It was hokey, like a lot of Campbell’s work, but it lacked the Sam Raimi execution that makes that kind of thing work. And Ted Raimi turned in four performances that made me realize why Sam usually limits him to cameos. Here’s hoping they pull it off a bit better this time.
[via /Film]
