‘Zombieland’ Sequel May Turn Into A TV Show
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2011 6:00 am EST
Instead this is about a development that could put Zombieland where it will really be able to have fun: on television. (Which, if you’ve paid close attention to related interviews over the years, you might recall being the original home for the project before it ever turned into a theatrical feature.)
Reese and Wernick would write, and the 2012-13 season is the theoretical airtime. If this happens, it would scuttle the proposed theatrical sequel. Vulture talked to producer Gavin Polone, who said,
The show never happened; the movie did. That would make this new development quite a fitting one. MTV has one of those older interviews about the movie, where the writers said,
The original plan for [Zombieland] was to make it as a TV show… but [CBS, which ordered a pilot in 2005] did what networks do, which is to take all the good stuff out.
The serial TV format offers obvious possibilities for other similar recurring ideas. While there’s no chance that the show would end up with any of the leads from the film in the main cast, various guest stars might be able to show up in living and/or dead format. (Maybe not guests as well-known as the movie’s big cameo; this budget isn’t likely to be very big.)
We always thought [it should be a TV series]. If you watch the movie with that in mind, you will see some remnants of the television show. We have the ‘Zombie Kill of the Week,’ which was always intended to happen every week. The movie ends on a cliffhanger; it doesn’t have a real resolution.
