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ZOMBIELAND: THE SERIES!!
A Fox sitcom based on the 2009 smash “Zombieland” is being developed by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the movie, according to Vulture’s Joe Adalian.
This could have something to do with the numbers AMC has been garnering with “Walking Dead.”
“Zombieland” actually began life as a 2005 CBS pilot script that never got before cameras.
If the “Zombieland” series goes forward, Sony will scrap its plans for a big-screen sequel.
Find Vulture’s exclusive on the matter here.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 3:08 a.m. CST
It's just like the Zombieland you were almost entertained by in 2009, minus the novelty, gore or movie stars.
by Doctor_Strangepork
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Oct. 20, 2011, 3:39 a.m. CST
I think this is great news.... except that its on Fox, which means it is a short-lived canceled series.
by Xen11
Grudges aside, I love the series Fox picks up. They are THE ABSOLUTE BEST NETWORK of those main 5 or 6. I've seen Jack Bauer do some really Saw-like shit, especially in the final season. I couldn't believe I was watching it on Fox. I think Fox will allow the gore and the edge it needs. It may not be over gratuitous but it should be enough. I want Zombieland The Series. The movies are taking too long. Better this way, so we can get the full first season that was planned. They should have been churning out a Zombieland film every year or at least every other year to tell that story. Just plan to tell what needs to be told pickup by pickup, with whatever amount of episodes they are given at the time. But now, that I just wrote all that, with the way Fox butchers their series, I think I'd rather just wait for Zombieland 2.
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Zombies with a laugh track? I'm hoping they stick with the movie.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 4:23 a.m. CST
The first half of the film is a parody of that Cormac McCarthy book
by SiouxCitySarsaparilla
So the script must have been rewritten a lot since 2005 seeing as that book came out in 2006. Am I the only one who felt there was an extended homage to Badlands in the middle of the film (hidden in plain sight beneath the Ghostbusters stuff and others)?
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I'd rather have a movie sequel than another Fox series with a very limited shelf-life
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Recasting will undoubtedly drop the quality at least 20%. The fact that it is on Fox has no effect on the quality aside from the fact that it will most likely be shuffled around on the schedule before finding a place on the Friday Night Death Slot along with Fringe (if even that is still around). Fox doesn't know how to handle anything that is any more than a formulaic, cookie-cutter series. Then there will be the fan debates on whether or not it will be considered "canon," and without the original cast, I can't see why we should act like it is. I would much rather see a theatrical sequel. Or (and here's a novel idea) leave it alone and come up with something original! http://www.youtube.com/callmedeebo
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what a fresh new concept ITS NEVER BEEN DONE!
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Did the truth make Lasseter and his sensitive ego upset?
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I'm all for a Zombie TV comedy to go along with the drama of Walking Dead, but not at the expense of another film. Being on a major network, they would have to neuter the language, gore, and comedy. Plus the sequel was supposedly going to be 3D - and not lame 3D, but the in-your-face, embrace the cheese kind, a la Piranha and Harold & Kumar.
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For weeks I've seen that and no one has ever explained what that's all about or where it started
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Sam Neill rocks. Here's hoping that the show doesn't collapse under the weight of its own mythology. Zombie shows may be the new trend (a la the retro shows) but at least it's not another cop/lawyer entry.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 8:47 a.m. CST
Joss Whedon worked on Cap? No wonder nerds over-hyped that piece of shit.
by bat725
And the Cujo movie was terrible. I've been fiending for a remake. Anyone who's read the book can tell you that. I hate to troll, but, damn...
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Oct. 20, 2011, 9:08 a.m. CST
I forsee this as being a faux reality show like The Office
by Mugato5150
Which is a really annoying format, BTW. As for the Brian Cox thing, don't ask. Just ignore it and people will get sick of beating a dead horse and it will go away. In 2 or 3 years.
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count me outta dis one, better dead here than in the core, dear gods, whassa mesa saying?
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Please don't do this.
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Zombies have been cashed in on and then some.
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Dont get the love for that film.
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This is one sequel I want to see get made!
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With some good animation and some decent writers that has potential to be awesome.
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Right behind Shaun of the Dead. Not exactly a big genre.
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They are so mainstream now it's ridiculous. I hate seeing them used in Best Buy, Toshiba, Windows, you name it commercials. ENOUGH!
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Oct. 20, 2011, 9:54 a.m. CST
Move it to FX, put Charlie Day in the lead, and shoot that fucker.
by 2for2true
Fox will just put a baby in it and hope hilarity ensues.
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Please don't. Without Woody as Tallahassee it's just not worth it.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 10:20 a.m. CST
Hoo boy....now zombies (like superheroes...not that I mind that one...and vampires) are going to reach saturation over-exposure.
by Dogmatic
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. . . but that shark likes brains. Whatever that means. Zombies aren't quite as mainstream as vampires or lycanthropes yet but they're right up there and probably had more ground to cross due at the very least to the anavoidable gore of their genre. I like the Walking Dead and a Zombieland TV show would probably be different enough to validate a second show but I'm not the idea for a movie I liked would translate onto the tiny screen. It might get old. I'm still one of those people that the zombie-genre can basically do no wrong with. That branches out to movies like The Road and even in some instances movies like "Armageddon". I think one of those most interesting aspects of the whole thing is just the apocolypse/end of the world/etc. aspects and how THOSE are dealt with. Now what you throw onto that as icing is what can make or break it. Is their a rock coming at earth or do the present inhabitants already have a bad habit of eating each others' brain noodles? As a side note, I see Cujo is coming out in a 25th anniversary edition as if we've all been counting down the years. It is one of those cool film ideas that could almost be a play in that it all pretty much takes place in one location. Those are always cool. I also read where King wrote this book when he was at the peak of his alcoholism and doesn't even remember writing it. That should automatically exempt him from being at an intervention as when he drinks to excess he creates works deserving of a 25th anniversary editions. Not really an argument against excess. Now when I knock back a couple things tend to resemble something out of The Human Centipede.
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You can take off your ironic black horned rimmed glasses to read this, they don't have any lenses in them anyway. We've been inundated with zombie movies, TV, comics and novels steadily for at least the last decade. And all of a sudden now they're too mainstream, hipster?
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Yes, if there's one thing hipsters are known for it's disliking zombie movies and horn rimmed glasses.
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From the moment I saw Zombieland, I thought it would make a great franchise in multiple mediums! Come on! We've got a new universe here to populate through comics, tv, cartoons, toys, breakfast cereals, flamethrowers, plush talking dolls, AND big budget movies!!
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Oct. 20, 2011, 12:19 p.m. CST
Why don't we just scrap the Transformers movies and make a cartoon instead?
by sweeneydave
Okay. Bad example.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 12:19 p.m. CST
Why don't we just scrap The Smurfs and make a cartoon instead?
by sweeneydave
Okay. Bad example.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 12:20 p.m. CST
Why don't we just scrap G.I.Joe and keep the cartoon instead?
by sweeneydave
Okay. Bad example.
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It's not like the movie was a disaster and they need to sell it for parts.
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GODDAMN THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO MAKE OR BREAK THIS IF ITS THE MOVIE ACTORS OR NOT. done.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 12:52 p.m. CST
@thedarklingthrush - 0% chance the actors are part of this
by ShiftyEyedDog
Seriously, do you think Eisenberg and Stone are going to do a tv show? Harrelson even? Sure, he started on TV, but he left that long ago and never looked back. I hope you were joking, because youre seriously delusional if you think the movie actors will be in the tv show.
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If Avengers does well for Joss Whedon, then I hope that all these Whedon-haters will stuff their heads up their asses and roll back under the troll bridge and stay there.....
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It's like Reno 911 but with Vampires, Zombies and Werewolves. It's not great, but it's not bad for a small 1/2 hour comedy.
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way to dilute the audience so that no zombie show lasts. fucking greedy short sighted assholes.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 2:02 p.m. CST
What ever happened to that animated Napolean Dynamite show Fox was supposed to do???
by Tikidonkeypunch
The movie is a guilty pleasure that my whole family can quote. The show was supposed to have all of the original cast back. (not that they had busy schedules) Maybe Fox should just become an adult animated network like Cartoon Network. They can buy up Robot Chicken and Aqua Teens. They already have Seth McFarlane raping every idea he's ever put down on post it. (And lets not forget about his manatee writers.) So Fox's next move is to take popular movies and animate them. Great. Can we get a Pulp Fiction movie. Or how about an animated Vega Brothers prequel series with Travolta and Madsen doing the voices. Maybe a Fox Force Five animated show? They can even tangle with the Deadly Viper Assasin Squad. Throw in some South Park and I might be all in.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 2:16 p.m. CST
I'd like to see an Evil Dead/Army of Darkness animated series
by Mr. Voodoo Potato Head
Since it's obvious there will never be another sequel. I'm sure Bruce would have time for the voice work. Heck, base it on the comic.
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For some reason the movie didn't live up to the fun the "rules of zombiekilling" could have been. The early action was good, the Bill Murray segment was fun, but it never got over-the-top crazy, and actually was a complete letdown for me in the 3rd act.
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for the teen romance Zombies. With vegetarian Zombies that sparkle. Can't wait for that big Zombie/Human wedding!
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This "zombie is a virus" shit is just played out.
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Oct. 20, 2011, 3:31 p.m. CST
zombies are stupid. always have been always will be and so are those that like them.
by alienindisguise
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They should have brought back Beckett as a Zombie.
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Your face is stupid.
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Surely it'll be something like "Arrested Development"?
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Oct. 20, 2011, 6:54 p.m. CST
This can be good. FOX always pushes the boundaries when it comes to gore on TV.
by bat725
See 24 and X-Files.
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It has nothing to do with zombies. What, is every post-apocalyptic movie considered a zombie flick now? Did I miss the memo?
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...as in 'bring back to life' or 'resurrect'. A bad pun - not a 'cartoon'. Jeez.
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Get Josh Friedman Have him showrun Zombieland: The Series focusing on a different set of characters in a different part of the world/country. Have Zombieland 2 in development and have the main characters from the first film return and meet up with the characters in the series. I want my royalties.
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Forget the show idea.
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I was hoping for something with a short season like Eastbound.
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Oct. 21, 2011, 12:59 a.m. CST
Random Note --- Sons of Anarchy was pretty fuckin' awesome this week.
by Lucky13
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Oct. 21, 2011, 3:24 a.m. CST
I guess Superhero time is over, let the Zombie time reign
by happybunni
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Zombieland was a fun flick. It was fresh and had a fun take on the genre. Much in-line with Shaun of the Dead. It doesn't deserve any hate.
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Since you're dead inside.
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Oct. 21, 2011, 4:38 p.m. CST
The only good thing about Zombieland was Woody Harrelson and the Bill Murray cameo.
by Lucky13
Agreed. Though the first few times the kid prattled off rules was 'fun'... then just got old and stale soon after. Emma Stone is ugly, looks and sounds like a cunt... yet fanboys fuckin' love her. I don't get it.
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Plus, Zombieland was a really shit film. Had some great funny gags and scenes in it, but no story or plot whatsoever.
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Oct. 24, 2011, 4:02 p.m. CST
Zombies today are like Vampires and Superheroes of the last decade...
by HB_Dad
...the problem is Zombies have already peaked and are at the saturation point. By the time this makes it to air, it will be well behind the trend and will fail miserabbly. As for the Napolean Dynamite comment, NP as a TV show is also stupid because kids who loved the movie have now grown up and are disinterested it at this point while young kids have no idea who Naploean Dynamite is. This one is WELL past its prime. Think about it, when is the last time you've seen kids wearing "Vote For Pedro" shirts? I might add, Napolean Dynamite SUCKED!!! It was boring as shit and I usually love stupid humor!
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