If a Zombieland continuation had come outless than 10 yearsafter the original celluloid , it would have been a very different movie , in terms of story but also quality . Over meter masses get older , Hollywood ’s sensibilities interchange , and maybe some of your once up - and - coming role player make headway Oscars . A lot can happen in 10 years , andall of it worked to makeZombieland : Double knock the film it is today .
The sequel to the 2009 Ruben Fleischer picture is set roughlyin veridical - meter since the first oneand once again follow the unlikely “ home ” of Tallahassee ( Woody Harrelson ) , Columbus ( Jesse Eisenberg ) , Wichita ( Emma Stone ) , and Little Rock ( Abigail Breslin ) as they crusade zombies and survive in post - apocalyptic America . However , while things depend harmonious on the control surface , Little Rock is now a unseasoned woman and she has a strong desire to go out on her own . When she does , the rest of the work party put off after her .
That ’s the super basic mark up for threefold Tap . And it ’s whole dissimilar from what writer Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick originally planned .
It was a long journey to get Zombieland: Double Tap into theaters.Photo: (Sony Pictures)
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“ to begin with we wrote Zombieland 2 to happen the Clarence Day after Zombieland 1 , ” Reese told io9 last week in Los Angeles . “ Abigail Breslin was [ still ] a 12 - twelvemonth - erstwhile fille . So , over time , we had to literally give up that total concept and make it about her take flight the nest because she grow up . ”
However , during that time Wernick and Reese got kind of busy . They write two picture show abouta character named Deadpool . Anyone discover of him ? As a result , several other author were convey in to scavenge things up .
Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, writers of the Zombieland and Deadpool movies, at the Double Tap premiere.Photo: (Sony Pictures)
“ Dave Callaham and Oren Uziel came in and did a wonderful occupation kind of updating the story make for it to a more of an empty nest tale about a new woman who used to be a girl , and used to love to look up to her Fatherhood figure , but now really wants to get out in the reality , ” Reese said . “ Then the three of them having to chase her down and it reallyclicked into place for us . We thought ‘ Okay , now you really can justify the passage of time . You lease her grow up and then you have her require to rebel . ’ ”
If you ask Ruben Fleischer , who made his directorial debut with Zombieland and is now back for Zombieland : Double spigot , it was Reese and Wernick who were kind of creditworthy for the movie taking so long to make .
“ They were unavailable when we first set forth work on it , ” Fleischer order . “ We worked with a really awing writer , Dave Callaham , and then some other hoi polloi did different drafts of the script . But the shape was very precious about the original and I shared their belief . If we were going to do it , we had to go in with full assurance that we could make it as adept as the first one . And so that all follow down to the book . ”
Woody Harrelson may have met his match in a new character played by Luke Wilson.Photo: (Sony Pictures)
Fleischer say it was Wernick and Reese ’s return to the flick after Deadpooling around that really set the movie in apparent motion . “ I cogitate it was really only when Rhett and Paul did a selective service , and then they had to do more than one muster , but when we all take that drawing and we all together with felt [ it ] was going to give us the best chance for success , that ’s when it all became very real . ”
Reese and Wernick , though , tell that storey from a unlike perspective .
“ Well , it was Woody , ” Reese said when asked what at last jumpstarted Zombieland : dual Tap after almost a decade . “ [ The piece of writing ] was sort of a long cognitive operation but a passel of it was bounce back and forth with Woody . He was a little , I would n’t say reluctant , he was just nervous , as we all were , that this was gon na be something that could live up [ to the original ] . ”
The cast and crew of Double Tap at the premiere.Photo: (Sony Pictures)
“ He really was sort of unmanageable to win over , in a honest elbow room , ” Reese continued . “ He just did n’t want to make something that he felt was either , not half - assed , but just not as good as the first . ” “ Nor did we , ” add Wernick .
So while on the set ofDeadpool 2 , Wernick and Reese got an enthusiastic e - mail from Harrelson that changed everything . “ We got the e - mail and all of a sudden I was like ‘ We ’re pull in this , ’ ” Reese say . “ And then , of class , we got the ratification from Emma and Jesse and they felt the same way and on the spur of the moment that just unlock it . It felt like he was sort of the last someone to really just put that stamp of approval on it . ”
The mode the writers assure it , even for Stone and Eisenberg — who each got Oscar nominating address since the first Zombieland ( with Stone winning one)—Double pat was always about Harrelson .
“ Woody ’s a small spot of the elder statesman on this one . He ’s the reason this got made the first fourth dimension , ” Reese said . “ So I still feel like even 10 years after … look Emma Stone , Oscar - winner , but she was still very venerating of Woody and the approximation was if Woody ’s not entirely happy it does n’t bump . Nor should it happen . ”
So what was it about that tipple of the book that got Harrelson and everyone else so unrestrained ? “ It was just capturing the emotional state of the first one in the most authentic way , ” Fleischer said . “ Like not trying too hard , not pandering , really just feel like it had the same creative thinking and originality and typical voice that the first one had . ”
That ’s the other affair many of us block about Zombieland . When it was released in 2009 , zombi were cool , but they were n’t fully mainstream . It was n’t until The Walking Dead debuted a year later that zombies had their large import and , it grow out , Zombieland form of pave the way for that .
“ [ Lord of The Walking Dead ] Robert Kirkman really does credit Walking Dead and its success to Zombieland , ” Wernick said , “ Because Zombieland , at the time it was 2009 … snake god were n’t commercially successful . And I think what he was saying was it opened [ Hollywood ’s ] eyes to the idea that living dead can be commercial-grade and I think that lead to AMC moving forwards on Walking Dead and it [ becoming]the massive success that it is . Not that we ’re claiming any province for its success . But I consider for its forward-moving momentum early on , [ Zombieland proved ] it can work and can make money . And so here we are . ”
Yes , here we are : sidereal day away from the opening of Zombieland : Double hydrant , a moving picture fans have been postulate for for years . The question now becomes , was everyone involved mightily ? Will this film live up to its predecessor and still feel fresh and fun despite a decade of snake god madness ? It ’s time to nut up , or shut up , as the moving picture might say .
Zombieland : Double Tap opens October 18 .
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