FirstShowing interviewed the writers of Zombieland, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.  One of the projects they are trying to get greenlit is Earth vs. Moon, “a big, epic, sci-fi war movie”.  They say the script was inspired by a Stephen Hawking speech about the need to colonize space as a back-up plan for humanity.

Wernick describes it as a “hardcore, 300-style [Ed.- so hot right now *cuts self*] movie with some comic relief to it, but about the Earth and a colony on the moon essentially in a civil war.”
Reese explains that it’s “set about 300 or 400 years in the future [....] It’s about two societies at war, but it’s also about a family, not at war, but a fractured family. Half of them have gone to the moon and the other half are still on Earth and so they are on opposite sides of this conflict and we wanted to make sure that as big of movie as it’s going to be, it works on a small level.”

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Below you can watch the red-band trailer for Zombieland — from director Ruben Fleischer starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg — a film I just can’t bring myself to care about.  I mean, sure, it looks pretty, as you can see from the screencap above, it’s just that once you strip away the bigger budget, isn’t it just Shaun of the Dead starring two guys with less comedic chops?  Now, I know what you’re thinking – “But dood, it’s a zombie stripper, ZOMGLOL!”  True.  But even that kind of reminds me of something else.  Namely, Zombie Strippers.  Bottom line, it doesn’t look horrible, it just looks like something I’ve seen before.  Kinda like your tits, mom, now leave me alone I’m trying to eat breakfast.

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Zombieland is a film with a concept so boring I can barely bring myself to write about it.  It stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus and Tallahassee (get it? their names are cities!), two guys who kill zombies.  The zombies chase them and want to eat their brains, but they kill them in funny ways, and somehow this goes on for two hours.

Columbus is a big wuss — but when you’re afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-toting, zombie-slaying’ bad ass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita [Emma Stone] and Little Rock [Abigail Breslin], who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies. [IMDB]

Well it’s a good thing they didn’t rely on cheap gimmicks.  This movie feels like it was written by Judah Friedlander‘s hat.

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I wish Hollywood could combine all these zombie projects into one film, it’d make not giving a sh-t about them so much easier.  Anyway, the first pictures are up from Zombieland, a zombie buddy-comedy starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.  How’s this different from Shaun of the Dead or Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse you ask? Um… Woody Harrelson?

Elsewhere, Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter has signed on to write Deadworld based on (of course) a comic book.

“Deadworld” veers from the popular zombie mythology of depicting an apocalypse in which humans are overrun by flesh-eating corpses. “Deadworld” picks up four months after that event, where the Dead overtake the Earth, with humans few and far between. Protag is King Zombie, a Harley-riding corpse who holds a grudge against the survivors who made him an outcast. [Variety]

Oh, Hollywood.  Take an old concept, add a motorcycle or some sunglasses and ta da, it’s new again. Oh jeez, he wears a leather jacket?  The kids are gonna go nuts for this.

Woody Harrelson has signed on to star in Zombieland, a horror comedy set to be directed by Ruben Fleischer, who I bet is Jewish (I’m psychic).

Written by the team of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick ("The Joe Schmo Show"), "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. [THR]

The only reason this project is worth mentioning at all is that, hey, isn’t this exactly like Shaun of the Dead?  And Jay and Seth Vs. the Apocalypse?  And Total Recall?  Okay, maybe not so much that last one, but the chick with the three tits gave me a real Woody Harrelson, if you smell what I’m layin.