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.
