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ZOMBIELAND Sequel Ramping Up While JACKASS Goes 3D!!
Merrick here...
Variety has a brief discussion with ZOMBIELAND producer Gavin Polone about shooting a sequel to the film in 3D.
We'd previously heard director Ruben Fleischer was interested in using the process to film a theoretical continuation; now we know that this "potential" follow-up is already moving along. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the first film's writers, are scripting away, and...
Sony has closed deals with Polone and helmer Ruben Fleischer to return for a sequel to the original, which cost $24 million and has earned $85.2 million worldwide to date ("Zombieland" has only opened in a few territories overseas).
The Culver City studio is currently in talks with stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg to reprise their roles as a pair of post-apocalyptic survivors. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are working on the sequel's screenplay.
...says THR HERE.
The same 3D centric article tells us a 3D JACKASS film will roll on January 25 for release in 2012. As for which 3D process will be used to throw Johnny Knoxville's epic idiocy right in our face? The piece indicates...
Insiders say Dickhouse's Jeff Tremaine, who will direct "Jackass 3," is conducting camera tests this week to ensure that the footage will look good.
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The Culver City studio is currently in talks with stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg to reprise their roles as a pair of post-apocalyptic survivors. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are working on the sequel's screenplay.
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I guess Abigail Breslin can come back too.
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...make scariest 3D film EVER.
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That a Zombieland sequel is underway?
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NOTHING could possibly make the Jackass movies three dimensional. Which is why we like them...kinda.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:00:42 AM CST
AS ONE OF THE WORLDS BIGGEST ZOMBIE MOVIE FANS......
by tehcreepythinman
I can honestly say that Zombieland didn't do a whole lot for me. Yeah, there were some good gags, Wood Harrelson is always a pleasure to watch while Emma Stone was severely fuckable BUT it’s not a zombie movie that I think that I will be compelled to revisit on a regular basis although I will buy the DVD for my collection of living dead flicks. What I did like was the fact that it was a movie filled with action and effects, shot on HD, produced by a major studio for only 23 million and with a domestic haul of 75 mill (85 worldwide). This will be the future of cinema. Movies made at a reasonable cost that make a tidy profit. This isn’t the 60’s or 70’s where you had to blow money on film and even then there were Director’s that made movies on criminally low budgets (H.G. Lewis, Andy Milligan). Digital technology should be bringing production costs down and we should be seeing more smaller movies that display greater creativity and innovation. Zombieland wasn’t the most creative or innovative movie but it did what it needed to do and made some bank while doing it without spending 200 to 300 million dollars. End of rant.
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Yes. Now we know producers and directors are signed, and that it's already being written, etc.
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Finally, a reason for 3D technology. Genius.
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So I'm going to have shit thrown at my face??
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IN 3D!!!!""Oh joy...
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For a zombie movie. A) A CREATIVE and AWESOME zombie death. And B) Someone getting torn apart by zombies.
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It was done to death in all the commercials and made no sense and was far too Looney Toons-ish. Cracking a head open with a banjo is great... if we could SEE it happen, I mean.
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What's the point? The first ones was okay nothing more.
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The movie is supposed to be more comedy than scary or gory. It's like you want raisin bran when you obviously bought cookie crisp.
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Makes me wish I could see Zombies rip Bam limb from limb. Hate that douche.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:42:17 AM CST
Zombieland 2 needs McConaughey as rival zombie slayer
by immorganfreeman
In an epic competetion of zombie slaying prowess. In 3-D!
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Dec 02, 2009 11:55:32 AM CST
Party Boy's junk fly-y-y-y-ying at the bridge of your nose...
by burnhollywood
We're truly in an enlightened age...
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And it managed to have BOTH the key ingredients I mentioned above.
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40 year old idiots doing anything to be famous (including wayyy too much homo shit). Didn't they kinda jump the shark when Steve-O did Dancing With The Stars? (Not that I ever watch that show but yes, I am aware of it.)
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Dec 02, 2009 12:12:39 PM CST
Can someone please give Frank Capra a role
by liesandpicturesofalsolies
Where he doesn't play a gangster and/or criminal?
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I'm not a big fan of Zombie movies and I frikkin LOVED Zombieland...it really is much more of a comedy/character piece than a traditional Romero Zombie flick. Heres hoping that somewhere in the sequel they manage to kill Dan Ackroyd...in 3D!!!!
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Some of the stuff they do throws me into fits of laughter. Would absolutely pay to see another film from them!
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Its about finding/creating a new family in the face of death and destruction; you don't have to do it all alone. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie a lot. But those ingredients would have made the film aces for me. As it stands, Sean of the Dead is the better film.
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She's alright nothing to get worked up about! Zombieland was okay! I still don't understand why they are making another Jackass!!! All those Losers do is eat shit, and touch each others balls while jacking off a donkey to get kick in the face. It's just stupid!....
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Yes, I laughed a few times. Yes, the cameo was brilliant. But that adds up to about 15 minutes of enjoyment from an 85 minute film. Paper thin plot and characterization. Not saying it was horrible, but come on.
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Jackass is epic humor to the stupidest degree in all forms.. And that is alright with me. I enjoyed the show for what it was, morons doing moronic things intentionally to each other and their selves.
Zombieland 2 makes me happy but wary because it's a sequel, I do like the idea of TBer here stating some Rival zombie slayer/jerk being a big star who contends with Woody during the movie. The opening to Zombieland with "For WHom The Bell Tolls" would have been priceless in 3d because it just had that campy fun vibe to it as well. -
Your post made me laugh for two reasons:1) You would trip over yourself for a chance at Emma Stone.
2) Calling Jackass "stupid" gets you the Captain Obvious award. It's called Jackass for a reason. -
ala EdTV (they were made to play brothers), toss in Christian Bale for that Reign Of Fire connection (and the guy really needs to get a comedy on his resume, enough of the raspy "I'm Batman/John Conner" stuff), and you've got box office gold.Speaking of casting "brothers", when will Robert Downey Jr and Jeffrey Dean Morgan be cast together. Hell, make The Hardy Boys with them, not Cruise and Stiller.
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PASS
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Though I guess you need Knoxville to make the first move and show everybody that you can earn a lowbrow profit using highbrow tech.
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It takes 2 fucking years to post-produce a fucking Jackass movie?
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I thought was pretty inventive and funny. The second one I thought was just stupid and gross. Especially drinking the horse cum, that was pretty fucked up.
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great news!!!!!!!!!
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So this is good news.
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Jackass 3-D is gonna fucking rule! Zombieland 2 will too...
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http://tinyurl.com/nu6ou5
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What did we do to deserve this? I don't know what's worse, that Hollywood keeps shitting this stuff out, or that there's an audience for the shit they're shitting out. And I though Jacksass 1 and 2 were signs of the ultimate demise of the American entertainment system!
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Merrick didn't post the best part of the release, the filming locations!
"...the film, which will lense in Knob Lick, Kentucky, Mianus, Connecticut, Fukang, China, Buttzville, New Jersey and Gayville, South Dakota."
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...far as I'm concerned. Nut up or shut up, bitches! I'll pass on the 'Ass, though. That joke's worn too thin. Plus, Steve-O is sober now, right?
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No it isn't. It is to make people laugh.
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lit so fast, and we wait YEARS for an Indy sequel?
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because the makers of Zombieland have nothing better to do.
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that keeps Popping up and have actually Be himself They just cant seem to Kill him.
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If Woody is the main Zombie snuffer, then I will go. If he is not then I will not. Jesse Eisenberg is not main character material unless the movie is about a bored teen
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the story of a low, loow key comic actor whose style becomes so repetitive he becomes a parody of himself, until his persona is copied by...Jesse Eisenberg, to be played by Michael Cera. Script by Charlie Kaufman.
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Irritating bland prick plays irritating bland prick. Hollywood gold right there I tells ya!
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Its easy...it cost very little to make,made a shit-ton of money(relative to the investment),and there are very few Hollywood egos to placate...Woody was probably the biggest star in the flick(next to the cameo) and he was probably paid in weed...hell,so was Murray, most likely.
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Epic. Fucking. Fail.
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My biggest beef with Shaun of the Dead is in the last 20 fucking minutes it gets all serious and really deadly when, basically, to that point the zombies had been treated as a slow-moving joke that anyone could survive. I don't think it earned the ending which is why it's so jarring. Zombieland, the zombies are dangerous and fast from day one. How the characters deal with it is humourous, but they're always a dangerous and deadly threat so when it gets all action-y in the 3rd act, it earns it. Shaun of the Dead is hilarious, but the seriousness of the 3rd act is always an unneeded twist where Zombieland's third act plays better (And still has some humour and levity in it. ie. Zombie clown)
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Thats always been my one and only problem with Shaun-fairly goofy zombie comedy right up until the last act and then it gets deadly serious. I always did find that a little jarring...
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Roger Doger came out early 2000's, I think even before Arrested Devrlopment, when Cera was still a podgy kid. Anyways, he was on my radar before Cera, always thought Cera was getting his gigs. Good to see him getting decent work.
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I think I was the only one who thought that was fucking stupid. The cameo itself was fine, but the way it ended? Too fucking stupid for words. In a world of zombies, who the fuck would pretend to be a zombie and risk getting his head blown off?
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He pretended to be a zombie to fit into the world of zombies. It's not rocket science sir. Also, I'd see Zombieland and Zombieland 2 a hundred times before I sit through another shit fest like Indy IV.
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Reminded me of that awesome South Park episode. Hahaha. "They're raping him!!!"
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Perfect mix of comedy and zombie fun :) So jizzed for a sequel. As of the 'Ass. I grew up, shame they didnt. I thought Knoxville was going to have a film career. I guess Dukes of Hazzard killed that baby dead lol
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The lowest form of "entertainment" out there. The fact that this idiotic shit makes money at all is frightening. People actually pay money to see a bunch of idiots doing the stupidest most moronic shit to themselves? Society is really heading down the path that was shown in Idiocracy. Next we will have the show "Owww My Balls" and people will love it.That being said, you gotta love the fact that a bunch of asswipes are making money doing this dumb shit. What a great country this is. You can be a total and complete moron and make millions "entertaining" people with your stupid crap.
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Dec 03, 2009 9:42:34 AM CST
Jackass is concerned with Pic Quality rather than a Quality Pic.
by cletus van damme
But this shouldn't surprise anyone.
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Funny, I kinda liked him in Dukes and in Walking Tall. Too bad he feels the need to resort to Jackass bullshit, he could have a decent film career. But he chooses stupidity instead. Not all that surprising sad to say.
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Dec 03, 2009 10:06:54 AM CST
The Jackass boys will all have expensive mortgages now
by col. tigh-fighter
It'll be sad to see a bunch of guys in late 30's/early 40's trying to pretend they're still 25. Im still trying to grow old disgracefully :) but you wont catch me jumping into a vat of shit, or being shot on my naked ass with a paintball gun lol. I'll take all night clubbing and a strip club for my shot at not growing up :)
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Dec 03, 2009 12:55:36 PM CST
Kill off Michael Ce...er Jesse Eisenberg in the opening credits
by solanine
Then I might give a shit. Otherwise, I have no interest in Superbad plus zombies part 2. Totally surprised at how many people enjoyed the absolutely unfunnyl fucking garbage that was Zombieland.
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I'm just being realistic. Especially if Eisenberg has already got the older one pregnant. Its really almost their duty to mankind.
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I could live without the 3D. Too often, it's merely a gimmick to have something leap out at you and go "BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA!" Notable exception was "Avatar," which, for all its flaws as a story, made truly lovely use of 3D not to jump out, but to gently *recede* and create immersive depth (far more depth than the script, as it happens).
As for a Z-Land sequel…
OK, so here’s how I see it. In the sequel, the troupe stops in Columbus, OH after all (where else do they have to go?). Once there, they discover that Columbus’ parents (”Paranoid shut-ins,” remember?) are not only still alive, but have carved out a fortress-like enclave of fiercely disciplined but VERY eccentric survivors. Columbus gets to introduce Wichita/Krista to the ‘rents after all. Hilarity ensues.
Oh, and as for Tallahasse? Remember how evasive he was at answering the whole “laying pipe” question himself? How appalled he was at the notion that Columbus wanted to go Heels-to-Jesus with Wichita? The lack of mention of poor Buck’s mother?
Tallahasse just might be gay. Interesting, yes? Can anyone say Neil Patrick Harris?
Kind of a limited shelf life for the franchise, though; these zombies are VERY sick, not (apparently…) breeding, and rapidly running out of fresh humans to nosh on. Really is just a matter of waiting them out.
And did *anyone* think of using a CB radio?! ("Breaker-breaker: NOT a zombie, here, c'mon back!") And is anyone alive at the power generation plants (where's all that electricity coming from? Pretty good security at nuke facilities…)
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