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‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Writers Reveal the ‘Ghostbusters’ Reunion That Almost Was!
Spoiler warning.
Even though Bill Murray was accidentally killed in Ruben Fleischer‘s 2009 film Zombieland, he was worked into this past weekend’s sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap, making an appearance during the film’s end credits. The sequence flashes back to the day of the outbreak, which takes place during a press junket for Garfield 3. But that wasn’t the original plan from the writers, who had to tweak things over the past decade, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
The original plan by screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick was to create the Ghostbusters reunion fans had been salivating for since 1989!
“Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson got Bill Murray out on a golf course and were trying to convince him to do a sequel to Ghostbusters. Dan Aykroyd becomes a zombie and attacks Bill and there are golf carts going in the lake and golf clubs being swung at people.”
Joe Pesci also would have been involved, adds the site, while also noting that the scene no longer worked by the time the film went into production. “Ramis, the beloved actor known for playing Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters films, died in 2014, and in the intervening years, a third Ghostbusters (the 2016 reboot) became a reality.”
“It was really fun, but then with the passage of time, with anything else, it had to be something else,” Reese told THR.
Zombieland: Double Tap is now in theaters everywhere with the new Ghostbusters set for release on July 10, 2020.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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