ZOMBIELAND Writers Still Bummed About Failed TV Series
Mike Sprague
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In March 2013, Amazon Studios had ordered a pilot for Zombieland: The TV Series written by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese and directed by Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs Evil). In the end, Amazon passed on the show, and it turns out Wernick and Reese are still bummed about it.
Reese told LRM in a recent interview: “I think there’s a little tiny bit of cross-pollination [between the show and Zombieland: Double Tap] but not as much as you’d think. We didn’t want to borrow from something that’d already been shot. That actually aired on Amazon for a couple of months, so people had already seen it so we didn’t want to borrow too heavily have one borrowing from the other. That said, it all comes from the same hopper of ideas, like we applied the same tone and jokes and all that stuff to that television show.”
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He added: “If we do some other version of Zombieland whether it’d be another movie or Broadway musical or whatever, we’ll continue to come from the same wellspring of ideas. But no, we had a blast making that. It was a bummer it didn’t go past the pilot, but you do what you can.”
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Zombieland: The TV Series starred Tyler Ross as Columbus, Kirk Ward as Tallahassee, Maiara Walsh as Wichita, Izabela Vidovic as Little Rock, and Kendra Fountain voiced a new character named Detroit, an ex-OnStar operator, serving as the gang’s navigator.
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