The Mummy director Lee Cronin says he handed over the director reins for the next two Evil Dead movies because he wanted to take a risk.
"The risk was not making a sequel to my last movie, because that was really easy for me to do," Cronin said in the latest issue of SFX. "I said no, ultimately, because I wanted to do something else, and I like to take a risk and gamble. The other risk factor is there's brilliant movies called The Mummy but they've also been there since the '30s. It's not just about Brendan Fraser, 25 years ago, but there's a risk because modern culture probably looks at those movies that way.
