Zombieland: Double Tap
Short description
Ten years after the zombie outbreak, Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock have settled into the abandoned White House, but their makeshift family is straining. Little Rock leaves with a pacifist musician named Berkeley, prompting Wichita to set out after her with the two men. Their search carries them into the American heartland, where they encounter a tougher strain of the undead that hunts in packs, along with other survivors whose intentions are uncertain. The group's own rules, built for a simpler world, prove inadequate to the tensions building among them.
Ruben Fleischer returns to direct, following Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less, Gangster Squad and Venom in his filmography; Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote the screenplay with Dave Callaham, and Gavin Polone produced. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin reprise their roles, with Zoey Deutch and Avan Jogia joining the cast.
Made for a reported 42 million USD, the film took about 123 million USD worldwide, a solid commercial result for a comedy-horror sequel released a decade after the original. On IMDb it holds 6.6/10 from roughly 224,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.9/10 from several thousand, while a critics' rating of 6.2/10 from 259 reviews places it modestly below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the end credits, Elvis Presley's (1935-1977) song "Burning Love" performed by Woody Harrelson plays. It was first performed by Arthur Alexander (1940-1993).
- Actors playing the new type of zombies, referred to as "T-800s", had up to 20 prosthetic sores applied to each of them, including prosthetics for the ears, inside the ears, and even inside the nostrils.
- The story about Elvis that the character played by Woody Harrelson tells in the hotel is actually the story of how Woody Harrelson himself became an actor.
- Some of the actors playing zombies shaved patches of hair from their heads or beards and applied fake wounds and sores to the exposed areas. The exploding heads were not made of silicone, but of hardened foam covered with a layer of latex foam. They would have been too heavy if made of silicone.
- The characters played by Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleditch are named Albuquerque and Flagstaff, respectively. Initially, these names were intended for the characters played by Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, but they were later named Tallahassee and Columbus.
- The business idea that Madison describes is actually the idea upon which the company Uber is based. The company was founded in 2009, a year that does not exist in the «Zombieland» universe, where the zombie apocalypse happened in 2009.
- All the actors who appeared in previous films in the franchise were required to approve the script. Woody Harrelson, playing Tallahassee, also had to approve the consistency and overall appearance of the vomit.
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