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Getty Images for Tom FordSharon Stone is criticizing her The Quick and the Dead director Sam Raimi nearly 30 years after the film’s release.
Per IndieWire, Stone’s criticism of the iconic Evil Dead and Spider-Man trilogy filmmaker came during the recent Torino Film Festival in Italy. During a panel discussion about her presentation of the The Quick and the Dead—which she produced and starred in—Stone discussed her experience of working with Raimi on the film.
Stone compared her work with Raimi in the 1995 Western thriller to her work with famed filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who directed her in 1995’s Casino.
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Getty Images“In Sam Raimi’s case, I really liked his films,” Stone said during the Tornio panel (via IndieWire). “I thought he was very intelligent and very funny, different from Marty because he’s Italian, he has loyalty, he has that family feeling, and because of it Marty and I still have a relationship and because of it Marty and I still work together.
“Sam was a kid and he doesn’t have loyalty, he doesn’t have family, he didn’t ever talk to me again, he didn’t thank me, he didn’t hire me again, he didn’t acknowledge the relationship,” Stone added. “Marty, because I worked so hard and because I admired him so much our relationship continues to today, there is depth there.”
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Corbis via Getty ImagesSharon Stone Says She Brought Sam Raimi From ‘B’ to ‘A’ Movies
The official logline for The Quick and the Dead reads, “A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father’s death.”
Sharon Stone stars as the gunslinger, Ellen, in The Quick and the Dead, which also stars Gene Hackman, Tobin Bell, Keith David, Gary Sinise and Lance Henriksen. The film also features the early work of Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio,
Prior to The Quick and the Dead, Sam Raimi had already established himself as the director of the classic Evil Dead horror trilogy from 1981 to 1992 starring Bruce Campbell, as well as the 1990 dark superhero movie Darkman, starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand.
Despite Raimi’s achievements prior to The Quick and the Dead, Stone claimed during the Torino Film Festival Panel that she elevated the director’s career by bringing him aboard her film.
“I had my great Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti and I was very blessed to produce this film and to have the opportunity to cast this film,” Stone said during the panel (via IndieWire).
“The director Sam Raimi, who I had an opportunity to bring from ‘B’ movies to ‘A’ movies, and then he directed Spider-Man and became a very big a movie director,” she added. I brought Russell Crowe from Australia. I had the opportunity to cast Leo DiCaprio and bring him into a big leading role and I really enjoyed producing.”
Apart from the original Evil Dead and Spider-Man trilogies, Sam Raimi has directed such films as Drag Me to Hell, Oz the Great and Powerful and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Raimi most recently produced the Netflix thriller Don’t Move and is working with Bruce Campbell on the development of an Evil Dead animated series.
Sharon Stone—who rose to prominence in the 1992 crime thriller Basic Instinct opposite Michael Douglas—has also starred in such films as Total Recall, Sliver, Catwoman, Basic Instinct 2 and The Disaster Artist. Stone most recently starred in the indie romantic drama What About Love, which was released in February.
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