Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Zombieland
10/6/08 - Jesse Eisenberg is in final talks to join Woody Harrelson in Columbia Pictures' horror comedy Zombieland, about a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Eisenberg would play Flagstaff, a terrified shut-in whose cowardice makes him an expert at surviving the zombies but who is forced out of his shell to join the band of survivors, which includes Harrelson.  Ruben Fleischer is directing Zombieland from a script by the writing team Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

8/26/08 - Woody Harrelson has signed on to star in the horror comedy Zombieland, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Written by the team of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Zombieland revolves around a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies. Harrelson plays one of the men, a zombie fighter named Albuquerque.  Ruben Fleischer is directing the film for Columbia Pictures. Gavin Polone and his Parish Films shingle are producing.

12/17/07 - Ruben Fleischer is in negotiations to direct the zombie comedy Zombieland for Sony's Columbia Pictures studio.  The movie is about most frightened guy on Earth, who leads a motley crew of survivors in a world overrun by zombies. The title refers to an old funeral home that is turned into a morbid attraction called Zombieland.  Gavin Polone is producing.

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