Ash Williams is laying down his boomstick. And good for him. It was hard enough for him to watch two girlfriends in a row get turned into Deadites back in the ‘80s, and then before he even had the chance to finish his shift at S-Mart, he got hurled back into the medieval era to fight stop-motion skeletons. He tried to leave the supernatural butt-kicking game after that, but he just couldn’t park the Necronomicon on the shelf, and his adventures continued on premium cable. Comics, video games, cameos in other Evil Dead movies — our guy is tired.
And so, while it’s definitely sad — especially for those of us who grew up with the character — it’s with gratitude and wistful nostalgia that we report Bruce Campbell is retiring the character of Ash for good. He said as much in a new interview with ScreenRant, telling the outlet that “Ash is done.” And although Campbell had previously hinted that he might be up for voicing the character in an animated revival, he added that he will “not [be] going to do any animated voice work" as Ash, either. "There are ways to [recreate my voice] now,” he said, presumably referring to voice-cloning software and/or AI voice generators.
