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Against all odds and desire, I have yet to see Zombieland. However, this hasn’t stopped the film from raking in some serious dough, hopefully a sign that more horror comedies will be headed our way.

The $25 million success of the film has led to obvious discussions of a potential sequel. Co-screenwriter Paul Wernicke had this to say on the subject:

“We would love it, and everyone involved creatively wants to do another one. Woody [Harrelson] came up to us after the final cut of the last scene and gave us a hug and said, ‘I’ve never wanted to do a sequel in the previous movies I’ve done until this one.’ “

Wernick and Rhett Reese plan to return to write a sequel if Zombieland 2 gets greenlit, and they claim that Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and director Ruben Fleischer all have interest in a sequel.

“It has lived in our heads for four-and-a-half years,” Wernick said. “We developed it and wrote it as a spec TV pilot in the summer of 2005. We’ve got a long brainstorming document that still to this day gets updated on a near-weekly basis with ideas. We’ve got tons of new ideas swimming in our head.”

If the gang’s all back, I’m all for it. Hopefully Fleischer goes and does another interesting project in the interim though — I hate when talented directors get stuck in the rut of their first film’s success. It works for some (Eli Roth, for example), but many, like Sam Raimi, have the desire to move on to other pastures.

Wernick and Reese have also been working on Venom for Sony.

More news on Zombieland 2 as it develops here on AtomicPopcorn.net!