Anecdotes

During the mid-1980s, Raimi used to live in an apartment with actor Bruce Campbell, writer/director Scott Spiegel, writer/director Joel Coen, writer/producer Ethan Coen, and actresses Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, and Kathy Bates.

The first director ever to do three live-action adaptations of a comic book character.

Over his years as a director, Raimi's 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 (originally bought by Raimi's father for the family when Sam was 14) has "played" Ash's car in the Evil Dead movies, Uncle Ben and Aunt May's car in the Spider-Man movies, Annie's car in Intuitions (2000), and Mrs. Ganoush's car in Jusqu'en enfer (2009), and has made cameos in nearly all of his other movies.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen use many of Raimi's trademark camera movements in their films.

His oldest brother, Sander, died in a swimming pool accident at the age of 15 while on a scholarship trip to Israel. Sander used to perform magic tricks for Sam and his friends; when he died, Sam learned to perform the tricks himself.

His breakthrough project, the low-budget horror cult film Evil Dead (1981), had an estimated budget of $350,000. Twenty-five years later he helmed a production with an estimated budget at 1,000 times the cost of that film, Spider-Man 3 (2007), with an estimated production cost of $350,000,000, making it the most expensive motion picture produced up to that time.

Attended high school and remains close friends with producer John Cameron and actor Bruce Campbell.

At college, he ran a film society but instead of renting films to exhibit, he and his friends created their own feature-length movies on Super 8 and showed them to the campus audiences instead.

His family name was changed from the German name Reingewertz.

He wanted to adapt and direct The Shadow (1994), but was denied the rights to do it. Instead, he created his own superhero with his film Darkman (1990).

Friends with director John Landis. Had cameos in Landis' Drôles d'espions (1985) and Innocent Blood (1992), while Landis did cameos in Raimi's Darkman (1990) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). Both also appeared in Stephen King's ABC mini-series Le Fléau (1994).

Many years before landing the role of director on the Spider-Man movies, Raimi planned to create a film based on Marvel's comic interpretation of "The Mighty Thor" with Stan Lee. While the movie never materialized, Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man and many other Marvel characters, became good friends with Raimi and later appeared in cameos on the Spidey flicks.

Directed one Oscar-nominated performance: Billy Bob Thornton in Un plan simple (1998).

Is an avid fan of Spider-Man comic books.

He is an avid comic book fan.

His wife, Gillian Greene, is the daughter of Lorne Greene and Nancy Deale.

Was considered to direct Scream (1996).

Middle brother of Ted Raimi and Ivan Raimi.

Graduate of Birmingham Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan in 1977.

Attended Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, as an English major, but dropped out after three semesters to film Evil Dead (1981).

Was considered to direct Batman Forever (1995).

In 2004, both he and the Coen brothers cast J.K. Simmons and Bruce Campbell in one of their movies; Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Ladykillers (2004).

He is good friends with Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

Was considered to direct Batman (1989) but was considered too inexperienced at the time.

Featured on Premiere's Power 50 list from 2003 to 2006 with the following rankings: #37 in 2003, #48 in 2004, #33 in 2005, and #23 in 2006.

At 19, he was Hollywood's youngest director.

Was considered to direct Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar (2017).

He was considered to direct The Truman Show (1998).

Was offered the chance to direct La Fin des temps (1999) but turned it down.

His favorite movie is Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre (1948).

Had expressed interest in directing Le Hobbit : Un Voyage Inattendu (2012).

Born on the same day as 'Weird Al' Yankovic.

Frequently employs Bob Murawski as his editor.

Had expressed interest in and was actually set to direct Warcraft : Le Commencement (2016) but dropped out.

He is of Hungarian Jewish and Russian Jewish descent.

Children: Lorne Raimi, Henry Raimi, Emma Raimi, Dashiell Raimi, and Oliver Raimi.

He was once attached to direct Jack Frost (1998), and even wrote a draft of the script with his brother Ivan.

He was considered to direct Douce nuit, sanglante nuit (1984).

He attempted to buy the rights to Batman and the Shadow before making Darkman (1990).

Was considered to direct La planète des singes (2001).

He was originally going to direct La nurse (1990), but he left the project early to direct Darkman (1990).

Was considered to direct Robin des Bois (2010).

Four of his favorite films are Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan (1998), [lonk=tt0054215], the original Nosferatu le vampire (1922), and Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre (1948).