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While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production.

Universal was not happy with Raimi's cut because it did not like his original ending of the movie and felt that it was negative.

A more upbeat ending was shot a month after Army of Darkness was made.

It was shot in a lumber store in Malibu, California over three or four nights.

Then, two months after Army of Darkness was finished, a round of re-shoots began in Santa Monica and involved Ash in the windmill and the scenes with Bridget Fonda done for very little money.

Raimi recalls, " Actually, I kind of like the fact that there are two endings, that in one alternate universe Bruce is screwed, and in another universe he's some cheesy hero ".