The enormous ratings success of The Walking Dead has led Fox to forgo a sequel to its Zombieland movie in favor of a TV series.  The 2009 Zombieland comedy written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick that starred Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin was a critical and box office success.  Fox was developing Zombieland 2, but the studio is dumping the movie sequel idea in favor the “greener pastures of a TV series.”

 

MTV already has its zombie series, Death Valley, showing on Monday nights, and now Fox is prepping Zombieland for the small screen.  Will audiences tire of the undead, when zombies start making up a substantial portion of the cable TV dramas?  How many shambling zombie shows is too many?

 

Meanwhile Reese and Wernick, who  came up with the memorable catchphrase for Zombieland of "Nut up or shut up,"followed the popular zombie comedy with G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, which is slated to debut next June, also wrote a Deadpool movie for Fox.  Now, according to Deadline, Paramount has decided to pick up the Hasbro/J.J. Abrams Micronauts project that has been in development since 2009 (see “J.J. Abrams Developing Micronauts Movies”), and the studio has hired Reese and Wernick to write the screenplay.  For a broader look at Hasbro’s movie slate see “Transformers, Magic Help Hasbro Raise Earnings 10%.”