Zombieland
The writer ofZombielandreleased the handwriting for a Mark Hamill cameo that was prune from the plastic film but contain lots ofStar Warsreferences . The classic zombie movie was secrete in 2009 to critical acclaim and had a successful follow - up , Zombieland : Double Tapin 2019 . The film and its subsequence were manoeuver by Rubin Fleischer and write by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese .
What made the firstZombielanda winner was the flick ’s well - balanced blend of natural action , gore , and clowning . Jesse Eisenberg played the naive yet leery hero Columbus , who introduced the audience ( and Woody Harrelson ’s Tallahassee ) to the set ofzombie natural selection ruleshe lived by . The zombie - fighting brace quickly became a quartet when Columbus and Tallahassee met two sisters : Emma Stone ’s Wichita and Abigail Breslin ’s Little Rock . The group ’s goal was to find an entertainment common in Los Angeles , rumour to be a zombi - free haven . On the mode to the park , they call in the mansion of legendaryGhostbusterBill Murray , in what has now become an iconic , unexpected cameo .
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OnTwitter , Wernick explainedthat he and carbon monoxide gas - writer Reese kindle up their Mark Hamill cameo script after Sylvester Stallone and Patrick Swayze pooh-pooh them . ( To be bonnie , Swayze was lose the fight against pancreatic cancer at the time and was just too ill to forge at all . ) Wernick posted the pages from the Mark Hamill scene for fans to read and share . The scene has a very exchangeable premise to the Murray one in the picture show . In this version , the chemical group walks into a celebrity hall , but it ’s covered in Star Wars memorabilia . Tallahassee humorously concede that he looked up to Luke Skywalker as a kid and got made sport of for it . When he actually met Mark Hamill in Las Vegas , he spat in his cocktail but ultimately get his final vengeance by killing Hamill in the setting to uproarious effect . Check out the playscript pageboy below :
Although the Bill Murray cameo that made it into the final swing was unbelievable , this axed scene would ’ve been just as screaming . Like Murray , Hamill is one of those rare histrion who may be laughably celebrated but does n’t take himself too badly . He frequently responds to questions from buff on Twitter in humourous way , and once jokinglytweeted at Trumpwith a request to pardon the infamousStar war Holiday Special .
It ’s always risky to have a celebrity cameo in a flick . If the piece of writing is n’t done right , the celebrity appearance can yank the hearing out of the story . However , theZombielandwriters took a page from Murray ’s book and did n’t allow the prospect to take itself too seriously . Ultimately , this is what made both the axe scene and the real scene comedically inviolable .
ZombielandandZombieland : Double Tapare fan favorite for a cause . The films are funny and enjoyable to a broad spectrum of fans , even those who usually do n’t partake in the zombie genre . At the center of the story are four people who just need to subsist , which is scarily relevant now with thecoronaviruspandemic sweep the world . Sometimes what the world needs most is a good gag , and perhaps a Mark Hamill cameo inZombieland 3 .
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Source : Paul Wernick viaTwitter
