Starz is set to host panels for the critical and fan favoriteOutlander(returns 2016) featuring cast and creators including Executive ProducerRonald D. Moore, author Diana Gabaldon and actors Caitriona Balfe andSam Heughan, as well as for the new original seriesAsh Vs. Evil Dead, (first season premieres Fall 2015) featuring cast and creators including Executive Producers and original filmmakersSam Raimi, Rob Tapert, andBruce Campbell, plusLucy Lawless, during San DiegoComic-Con 2015.
TheOutlanderSan Diego Comic-Con Panel will take place on Saturday July 11th in Ballroom 20 at the San Diego Convention Center, from 4:00 - 4:45 PM. TheAsh vs Evil DeadSan Diego Comic-Con Panel is set for Friday July 10th in Room 6A at the San Diego Convention Center, from 6:00 - 7:00 PM.
Outlanderspans the genres of romance, science fiction, history and adventure as it follows Claire Randall, a married WWII combat nurse who mistakenly falls back in time to 1743. As the season continues, Claire and Jamie’s relationship is tested and Claire must reconcile her modern mindset with this 18th century world. Ruthless redcoats, volatile clan politics, and a brutal witch trial force Jamie and Claire to escape to a new home. Just when their life as a married couple begins to take shape, Jamie is once again drawn into Captain Randall’s darkness. Ultimately, Claire discovers there is a fate worse than death as she struggles to save Jamie’s heart, as well as his soul.
Ash vs. Evil Dead, which is currently in production in New Zealand, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead and is set to premiere on Starz in Fall 2015. The 10-episode first season of the half-hour series is executive produced bySam Raimi, Rob Tapert,Bruce Campbell, the original filmmakers of the franchise, and Craig DiGregorio who will serve as executive producer and showrunner. Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons -personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.
The cast is led byBruce Campbell(Evil Dead,Burn Notice) in the role of Ash Williams,Lucy Lawless(Salem,Spartacus) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks,Ray Santiago(Touch,Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick,Dana DeLorenzo(A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past and Jill Marie Jones (Sleepy Hollow) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner.
