The posters of Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness, the third movie in the Evil Dead franchise, portray Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams with an expert wrestler’s body, looking like he has been imprinted out of stone with protruding muscles that people won’t precisely discover in the film. The audience has perhaps never conjectured ‘why,’ as such excellent creation doesn’t accurately require a motive to be accurate. But there is a story behind it. Campbell communicates it on Twitter this week. Back in the early ’90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the finest names in Hollywood. It was Schwarzenegger’s iconic body that certainly encouraged those wild AoD posters.
What did Cambell say?
Campbell explained by replying to a fan’s tweet about one of the original Army of Darkness posters. He said that the producer Dino De Laurentiis had his fingers all over that. It is the external poster. He knew that Schwarzenegger traded overseas, so he made me look like Arnold.
It is ridiculous for sure. But is also awfully cool. Campbell’s Ash never required protruding biceps to boost Deadite’s ass and protect the world, with the movies bestowing him more as an ‘everyman’ hero. He is amusingly clumsy through his fortune. And indeed, whorequires 24-inch pythons when you have got a chainsaw hand that you can turn up at the first signal of woe?
Yeah, producer Dino De Laurentiis had his hands all over that. It’s the foreign poster. He knew that Schwarzenegger sold overseas, so he made me look like Arnold. It’s very silly. https://t.co/uK3cq8DdBY
— Bruce Campbell (@GroovyBruce) April 7, 2021