Coming Attractions: Zombieland (2009)

Rising into theaters October 9, 2009

I'm already painfully late to the party, but I have to join in with the rest of the internet in expressing my awe and excitement at this momentous occasion. It is truly a shocking development, and perhaps one of the most fundamentally life changing events in my adult life: BILL MURRAY WILL PLAY A ZOMBIE in an upcoming film. Screw graduating from college, this is something to write home about. I'm a huge Bill Murray fan - and I kinda like zombies, too. The two together? Well, that's just double delicious.

Mr. Murray might not actually be "playing" a zombie. It's likely that he'll only appear as a brief cameo, but it's still retardedly awesome. This might be weird to say about the guy who starred in Meatballs, but Bill Murray is kinda pretentious (from what I hear). The fact that he's willing to shamble and moan with the rest of the rotters says a lot about the sway zombies have in the industry right now. The brains biz is a buzz. I guess his decision was helped by the fact that Zombieland (the name of the film in question) looks to be one hell of a kick ass zombie ride. I've seen countless movies dealing with widespread zombie outbreak in an urban setting, and countless movies blending comedy and zombies. But somehow the trailer for Zombieland still makes my mouth water and my killing muscles twitch. Woody Harrelson looks like he serves up possibly his greatest role to date as the brash lead zombie slayer. (Yes, this is the movie Woody was shooting when he attacked a papparazzo and claimed he mistook him for a zombie. What a badass excuse!)

This movie has definitely made my short list. Brains will be eaten. Flesh will be rended. And I will be laughing all the way.

- Watch the trailer on DEATHBYVIDEO
- Zombieland on Wikipedia