'Evil Dead II' and 'The Rookie' Screenwriter, Scott Spiegel, Dead at 67

Scott Spiegel, the writer behind cult horror favorite Evil Dead II and Clint Eastwood’s action thriller The Rookie, has died. He passed away on September 1 at the age of 67. A Michigan native with a lifelong love of cinema, Spiegel grew up making films with a circle of friends who would go on to shape Hollywood — Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, John Cameron, and Josh Becker among them. Together, they tinkered with Super 8 cameras in middle and high school, building a creative foundation that carried Spiegel to Los Angeles, where he famously lived with Raimi, Joel and Ethan Coen, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, and Kathy Bates in the early 1980s.