![]() ![]() The script, which must’ve taken at least two hours to pull together, is divided into dreary sections: the faux family jokes to catch us up on what everyone’s been doing for the last decade, the Dumb Blonde jokes occasioned by the arrival of Madison, the Elvis jokes when they stop by the Hound Dog Hotel – run by Rosario Dawson and a chaotic zombie mash-up finale that suggests the last 15 minutes of any number of half-assed comedies from the mid-‘80s. There’s even a doppelganger bit that dates as far back as Edgar Allen Poe, but mostly steals from a famous episode of “Seinfeld.” But mostly, the movie is stale and sloppy. There are some funny lines and a smattering of semi-clever plot twists. But compared to the raised consciousness that attends issues like race and the LGBTQ movement, it’s still in its infancy. Scott writing the same thing about a Stepin Fetchit character. For example, the New York Times review praises Deutch for bringing “remarkable energy and wit to a dreary stereotype.” At least not in terms of nauseating stereotypes.Īnd unfortunately, a lot of the film writing community is blandly supportive. You want to know what #MeToo has changed in Hollywood? And that’s when “Double Tap” goes from disappointing to unbearable. They’re joined by an air-headed blonde, Madison (Zoey Deutch), in a pink parka and Uggs, who’s been hiding out in a mall. Then they split up, with Wichita returning “home” and Little Rock heading off with a movie-hippie cliché named, of course, Berkeley (Avan Jogia). They’ve created a surrogate family of sorts: patriarch Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), lovey-dovey couple Columbus and Wichita (Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone) and rebellious youngster Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who’s sick of being treated like a baby and wants to find someone her own age to hang with.Īfter a spat with Columbus, Wichita takes off, taking Little Rock with her. That film is set to reach theatres on July 10, 2020.Ten years later, the zombies are still on the loose and our protagonists have settled into the White House. ![]() Aykroyd and Hudson are in the upcoming GHOSTBUSTERS sequel GHOSTBUSTERS 2020, and Murray is believed to be in there as well. ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP is now in theatres. ![]() In the final film, Murray's cameo plays off of a GARFIELD joke that was in the first ZOMBIELAND. The cameo idea changed over time, and the Ghostbusters reunion concept had to be set aside after Ramis passed away in 2014. Joe Pesci is really mad, turns around, and is upset. So, Bill Murray hits the drive into Joe Pesci, basically past him. Because, why not?īill was pissed off because, who was playing golf in the foursome ahead of him very slowly? Joe Pesci. The screenwriters mentioned to Uproxx that Joe Pesci also would have been in the golf course scene. Dan Aykroyd becomes a zombie and attacks Bill and there are golf carts going in the lake and golf clubs being swung at people." Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, ZOMBIELAND and DOUBLE TAP screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick revealed that they were always hoping to get Murray back for a second cameo, and in one of the earliest drafts they were going to use his cameo to make a mockery of reports that Murray's reluctance to participate was holding back the making of a GHOSTBUSTERS 3.ĭan 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. There were multiple drafts of the screenplay written during those ten years, and a failed attempt at taking the concept to television. Even Bill Murray, who made a very memorable cameo in the first film (pictured above), came back to make a cameo in the sequel.ĭOUBLE TAP isn't a project that just happened to come up ten years after the release of the first film. A sequel to the 2009 zombie comedy ZOMBIELAND has finally reached theatres this month, with the first film's director Ruben Fleischer returning to helm ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP, which stars returning cast members Woody Harrelson, Jessie Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin. ![]()
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