Editing Army of Darkness (section)

===Development===
Plans to make a third ''[[Evil Dead]]'' film had been circulating for a number of years, even prior to the production of ''[[Darkman]]''.{{sfn|Muir|2004|p=152}} ''[[Evil Dead II]]'' made enough money internationally that [[Dino De Laurentiis]] was willing to finance a sequel.{{sfn|Muir|2004|p=152}} Director and script writer [[Sam Raimi]] drew from a variety of sources, including literature with ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' and [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' and films like ''[[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]]'', ''[[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|Jason and the Argonauts]]'', [[The Three Stooges]], and ''[[Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)|Conan the Barbarian]]''. ''Evil Dead II'', according to [[Bruce Campbell]], "was originally designed to go back into the past to 1300, but we couldn't muster it at the time, so we decided to make an interim version, not knowing if the 1300 story would ever get made".{{sfn|Warren|2000|p=143}} Promotional drawings were created and published in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot. The working title for the project was ''Medieval Dead'', before it was later known as ''Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness''.{{sfn|Warren|2000|p=107}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/army-of-darkness-sam-raimi-medieval/ | title=Army of Darkness: The Weirdness of Sam Raimi's Medieval Dead | date=February 19, 2019 }}</ref> The title "Army of Darkness" came from an idea by [[Irvin Shapiro]], during the production of ''Evil Dead II''.<ref>Sam Raimi. DVD audio commentary, 3:12.</ref>