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    THE VIEWING GUIDE

    Apr 05, 2020 3 minutes
    CHRIS HEWITT

    Zombieland: Double Tap

    WRITER-PRODUCERS RHETT REESE and Paul Wernick on the best bits of their zany zombie sequel.

    LOGO A-GO-GO

    Ten years may have elapsed since the original took a devil-may-care approach to the zombie genre, but the sequel very quickly establishes that nothing has changed by having the Columbia logo lady use that torch of hers to best some undead assailants. “That was the idea of our visual-effects supervisor, Paul Linden,” admits Reese. “We actually wrote it even crazier than it turned out. We had the woman setting a zombie on fire with

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