‘Zombieland 2’ Cast Recruits Zoey Deutch To Join The Zom-Com Action
The returning cast ofZombielandis teaming with a new addition for the sequel:Zoey Deutch. TheSet It Upactress has joined theZombieland 2cast in an unspecified role, but there’s a good chance she’ll be one of the humans running from zombies. The sequel will arrive ten years after the original zombie comedy hit theaters, with virtually the entire original cast and crew returning.
Varietyhas the news about Zoey Deutch joining theZombieland 2cast, and that’s about the extent of the news. No character details are available yet – we just know she’ll be starring alongside original castJesse Eisenberg,Woody Harrelson,Emma Stone, andAbigail Breslin. Deutch’s credits includeEverybody Wants Some!!,Before I Fall,Flower,The Disaster Artist,Rebel in the Rye,Set It Up, and of course, the modern masterpieceDirty Grandpa.Paul WernickandRhett Rees, who wrote the originalZombielandand have since seen their career blow up thanks to their work onDeadpool, are coming back to write theZombieland 2script. AndZombielanddirectorRuben Fleischer,coming off the surprise smash hit that wasVenom, will return s well. Back in September, Fleischerconfirmedproduction on the long-awaited sequel would begin in January 2019:
The firstZombielandhad a quartet of survivors traveling across a world that had succumbed to a zombie apocalypse. The sequel will find the original characters venturing from “the White House to the American heartland as they face off against new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors.” The originalZombielandwas fun for what it was, but the movie feels almost forgotten by now. It came at a time when interest in zombies was at an all-time-high, but that interest has died down considerably since then. Will audiences be interested in returning to this world 10 years later?
Zombieland 2won’t be the first attempt to resurrect theZombielandbrand. In 2013, Amazon ordered a pilot episode for aZombielandTV series from Reese and Wernick. The pilot cast new actors as the film’s leads, and ultimately failed to win Amazon over – they decided not to pick the pilot up as a series. Perhaps the sequel will have a warmer reception.Zombieland 2opensOctober 11, 2019.
