With all the hype that zombies have been garnering in recent years, you would think that a follow-up to the successful zombie flick Zombieland would be inevitable. Yet here we are almost 4 years later, and there's still no gn of a sequel. So you're probably wondering what gives...
Well, with his big budget debut - Gangster Squad set to open this coming Friday, Collider had the chance to chatter with Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer. And during the course of the conversation, the topic of Zombieland 2 was indeed mentioned.
“I hate to do it, but I can say that there’s no immediate plans to make the movie.
There’s no script, really, so the likelihood of it happening is slim.
But I would not wanna put a nail in that coffin.”
Fleischer went on to reveal that the studio was not to blame for the lack of development:
"Well I think that the studio would be very excited to make it.
It’s not that the studio is not excited, it’s that we took one shot at the script
it wasn’t something we all got excited to do.
And just on a personal level, I was really excited to, having made one movie, to make different movies, not just go back into that world again.
But now that I have some distance and I’ve done some other stuff, I would be more inclined to go back to Zombieland I guess you could say.
But at the time when the talk of the sequel was really—when it felt like it was posble—I was really kind of shying away from it just because I’ve only made one movie, I wanna make different movies with different people and learn different things, and so I was a little hetant to just jump right back into the same thing.”
As far as what the plot for Zombieland 2 entailed:
"... it was a continuation of the original story with the same characters.
I guess the only thing I could really say is that the threat to our heroes wasn’t only zombies, like they encounter other people that they’re all jockeying for potions.”
Fleischer's Gangster Squad opens this Friday and stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, and Sean Penn.
Source: Collider