00:00Hello, friends!
00:0110 years after the first installment,
00:02it's finally time to go back to Zombieland.
00:04Zombieland Double Tap has the potential to launch not only
00:06a sequel, but a possible spin off.
00:08So let's shamble into the possibilities.
00:10Oh, also, there are spoilers ahead,
00:12which should be obvious to anyone using their brain.
00:22All right, first, we need to start with the Bill Murray cameo.
00:24That is how you do a post-credits scene.
00:27Take notes, Woody and Jessie.
00:29Shouldn't we have a league of our own?
00:32After Murray famously died in the first Zombieland, fans wondered how he could reprise his role
00:36in the sequel.
00:37Well, the answer is a flashback to the day the zombie outbreak occurred, where apparently
00:41Murray was promoting Garfield 3 at a press junket that featured real-life journalists
00:45like Josh Horowitz and Grace Randolph.
00:46But not me.
00:47It said real-life journalists.
00:49How dare you!
00:50But did you know that wasn't the original Murray ending?
00:54I did.
00:55You only know that because I told you about my interview with screenwriters Rhett Reese
00:58and Paul Wernick.
00:59Why?
01:00Why?
01:00Every time.
01:01Go away.
01:01Anyway, as I was saying, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were actually hired to write Zombieland
01:052 ten years ago, the week after the first one opened to big success.
01:09The original idea for the follow-up was to have it take place immediately after the first
01:12film concluded and pick up at the amusement park.
01:14However, this is Hollywood, where delays are more common than seeing a cloud or ordering
01:18anything that doesn't have cilantro on it.
01:20It's everywhere.
01:21And the script underwent numerous rewrites over the years.
01:23Aside from Abigail Breslin becoming an adult, the time lapse between the initial writing
01:27of the Zombieland 2 script and the movie finally going into production necessitated one other
01:32big change, Bill Murray's cameo.
01:34Originally, the cameo would have taken place on the first day of the zombie apocalypse at
01:37a golf course.
01:38In it, Murray is being courted by his Ghostbusters co-stars Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie
01:43Hudson, beseeching him to do a third Ghostbusters.
01:45And things would proceed from there, with Murray needing to dispatch everyone in sight as they
01:49become infected.
01:50Sadly, that scene would not work today.
01:52Ramis died in 2014 and Ghostbusters has indeed had a third film, the 2016 reboot, with yet
01:57another installment, Ghostbusters 2020, coming out next year.
02:00The post-credits scene aside, Double Tap also sets the stage for almost anything else
02:04to happen in this world.
02:05The film ends with Emma Stone's Wichita and Jesse Eisenberg's Columbus happily married
02:09after helping save the hippie enclave of Babylon from a zombie apocalypse.
02:13The entire family is there as they speed off in Elvis' Pink Caddy, along with Woody Harrelson's
02:17Tallahassee, Rosario Dawson's Nevada, and Abago Breslin's Little Rock.
02:21Could the next installment see them travel abroad?
02:23To Canada, perhaps?
02:24What's going on in the rest of the world?
02:26Is it possible the gang could take a trip to Europe somehow?
02:28Another intriguing possibility, Zoe Deutsch's Madison has become something of a fan favorite
02:32already, and director Ruben Fleischer has said he'd like to make a spin-off focused on her.
02:36Perhaps she and Berkley could team up and meet a group of zany characters.
02:40Zombieland was never intended to be a franchise, but ended up launching multiple careers.
02:43The writers went on to Penn Deadpool and basically every other movie Ryan Reynolds has coming
02:47up, Fleischer went on to direct Venom, Woody Harrelson was part of the McConaissance, Jesse
02:51Eisenberg became Mark Zuckerberg, Emma Stone won an Oscar...not really sure that has anything
02:57to do with Zombieland.
02:58Point is, small films with tight scripts and strong performances can lead to big things,
03:02and after ten years, Zombieland still endures.
03:04Why not take advantage of that and branch the franchise out into more projects?
03:07So what do you think Bill Murray's cameo should be like in the third film?
03:10If there is one, let us know in the comments right down there, and don't forget to subscribe
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