New ‘Zombieland’ Poster Released

A strange thing happened last evening before the We Are Movie Geeks’ screening of ‘District 9.’  We got trailers.  Not only that, but one of them was for ‘Zombieland,’ the new riotous zomedy (new term I’ve coined for zombie comedies) starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.  The MPAA screen at the beginning was green, but the trailer sure was not a green band trailer.  It was full of bloody zombies (red blood, to note), a few thrown out curse words, and Harrelson giving Eisenberg the bird via a mannequin’s hand.  The phrase “nut up or shut up” probably shouldn’t have been there, either, but I wouldn’t put it past the MPAA to not even know what the hell that means.  I’d like to think this is a new trend in Hollywood.  It’d be nice to see trailers for R-rated film that are going to be playing in front of other, R-rated films get more adult without warranting the dreaded red band.

Anywho, thought I’d throw that out there.

Coming Soon got their exclusive mits on this new poster.  It’s nothing great, grand or wonderful, but it gets the point across.  Seeing Woody Harrelson carrying a shotgun is always a good sight, and calls to mind his best performance as Micky Knox in ‘Natural Born Killers.’  I’d give anything to have him say the phrase, “That’s why helicopters were not deployed.” in every film he makes from here to the end of creation.

‘Zombieland’ comes out on October 9th.  Our boys Scott, Matt, and Kent will be checking it out next month at Fantastic Fest.