After several years of rumours, it was confirmed last year that a sequel to 2009’s Zombieland would be happening, and that screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had completed the script for the follow-up to Ruben Fleischer’s cult zom-com.
Well, out and about on the press tour for their latest film Deadpool 2, Reese and Wernick have told Vulture that the plan is to shoot and release the sequel next year, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the first movie.
“We’re going on the tenth anniversary of Zombieland,” said Wernick. “Zombieland came out October in 2009. We don’t know what you get someone for their tenth anniversary, but it may be a Zombieland 2.”
“The hope is that we’re shooting that thing early 2019 for an October ’19 release, with the original cast, by the way,” he continued. “We are sitting on information that we can’t entirely share at this moment, but we can just say we think fans of Zombieland who have been hoping for a Zombieland 2, that we will grant their wish very, very soon.”
The original Zombieland starred Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. The movie grossed over $100 million worldwide, and also spawned a 2013 TV pilot for Amazon, although the streaming service opted against picking it up to series.
