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Move Over Shaun, Woody Harrelson's Huntin' Zombies!

Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Casting »

I guess that if there is anyone suitable to be a zombie fighter, it'd be a guy who has experience as a Natural Born Killer. (If you can bring down humans, slow, mumbling zombies must be a breeze.) The Hollywood Reporter posts that Woody Harrelson has signed on to star in a new horror comedy called Zombieland.

This brains-obsessed tale will focus on "a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies." Woody will be one of the two survivors -- "a zombie fighter named Albuquerque." There's no word yet on zombie hunter #2. But more importantly -- where does the redemption fit in?!

The film was written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who worked together on The Joe Schmo Show, although more suitable credits would be Reese's involvement on Monsters Inc. Jumping into the directorial chair, we've got Ruben Fleischer -- most recently a director for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he's also worked with Mike White on Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl.

Zombie 101

Filed under: Horror »

George A. Romero's fourth living dead film Land of the Dead opens nationwide this Friday. Those of us who have been waiting since Day of the Dead came out in 1985 will be chewing our fingernails --until we gnaw through the bone and eat our entire hand-- in anticipation. Then all of us handless freaks will sit back and enjoy the kind of thinking man's zombie movie only Uncle Georgie could conceive. However, if you're someone with only a mild curiosity about Land of the Dead, or any other living dead flick, Chuck Ulie wrote a great piece for the Chicago Sun-Times about the history of the zombie movie, using Romero's seminal contribution as the key focus. It's entertaining, and a nice little history lesson.

 
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