Sam Raimi to take charge of World War 3

And while that doesn’t necessarily sound like subject matter ripe for Raimi’s Looney Tunes-inspired sensibilities—unless he can figure out a way to depict the political fragmentation of Russia via some zippy P.O.V. shots—the details of the proposed war do sound like they’d make for a pretty cool movie. Friedman’s vision of the future, after all, includes both “infantrymen with highly sophisticated, powered body-armor,” and battles waged for control of military bases on the moon, both of which sound pretty fun. (Hand-wringing pacifists can console themselves with the fact that Friedman’s awesome moon war only kills about 50,000 people, which is incredibly good as far as World War track records go.)

Raimi’s been occupying himself lately with the first season of Ash Vs. Evil Dead; his last feature film was 2013’s Oz The Great And Powerful, which many critics chastised for tonal inconsistencies, as well as a telling lack of dudes in robot suits fighting each other on the moon.

[via ComingSoon]