History Trivia / ZombieLand

** TheCameo of [[spoiler:Creator/BillMurray]] AsHimself, was originally going to be Creator/PatrickSwayze AsHimself, and the characters would've referenced ''Film/DirtyDancing'' and ''Film/Ghost1990''...[[ActorExistenceFailure alas...]] Later versions of the script considered Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/JoePesci, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/DwayneJohnson, Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme or Creator/MatthewMcConaughey as the celebrity.

** Creator/WoodyHarrelson (''Film/ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt'' and ''Film/TheMessenger'')

** Creator/EmmaStone (''Film/{{Birdman}}'', ''Film/LaLaLand'' and ''Film/TheFavourite'')

* CopycatCover:
** The direct-to-video ''Vampire Killers'' uses the exact same font on its cover, and has its characters in almost the exact same poses.
** The DVD cover of ''Film/{{Defendor}}'', also starring Harrelson, uses a similar design scheme as this movie's.
* CreatorsFavorite: Woody Harrelson says making this film was the most fun experience of his career.

* UncreditedRole: ''Every single actor'' outside the main cast and the clown zombie are left off the film's credits.

** ''Zombieland'' was originally imagined as a TV series. However, when all the networks the creators went to shot it down, eventually the creators settled on making [[MidDevelopmentMediumShift a movie out of it]]. The "Zombie Kill of the Week" is pretty clearly a holdover from the TV idea. Ironically, when the movie was proven a hit, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were considering in making a TV SpinOff that never came to be after a failed pilot on Amazon Video, in 2013.
** TheCameo of [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] AsHimself, was originally going to be Creator/PatrickSwayze AsHimself, and the characters would've referenced ''Film/DirtyDancing'' and ''Ghost''... [[ActorExistenceFailure alas...]] Creator/MarkHamill was also considered for TheCameo role.
** In the DVD extras, it's revealed that Abigail Breslin liked the zombie makeup so much that she asked the producers if Little Rock could become a zombie at the end. They turned her down.
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* The sequence with Tallahassee making a last stand is ''riddled'' with continuity errors. Look closely and you'll see that he starts out with a 1911 and a P226, then midway through the fight the Sig changes into a P228, and by the end of it he's dual-wielding two 1911s. The whole scene [[RuleOfCool looked cool]], so nobody cares, especially when you consider that having [[ThrowawayGuns more than two guns on hand]] [[CrazyPrepared would be perfectly in character for Tallahassee]].

** Creator/EmmaStone (''Film/{{Birdman}}'' and ''Film/LaLaLand'')

** TheCameo of [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] AsHimself, was originally going to be Patrick Swayze AsHimself, and the characters would've referenced ''Film/DirtyDancing'' and ''Ghost''... [[ActorExistenceFailure alas...]] Creator/MarkHamill was also considered for TheCameo role.

* UncreditedRole: ''Everyone'' outside the main cast, and the clown zombie, are left off the film's credits.

* ActorAllusion:
** Woody Harrelson managed to survive this apocalypse intact. In his [[Film/TwoThousandTwelve previous film]], however, there ''is'' the matter of that annoying supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park...
** The zombie apocalypse hasn't stopped [[spoiler: [[AsHimself Bill Murray]] of ''Caddyshack'' fame]] from playing golf.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The movie has a nearly identical title to the anime ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'', another zombie-centric HorrorComedy satire. The similarities end there, though, as the anime is actually a DeconstructiveParody of IdolSinger shows featuring a cast of undead girls forming a pop band to turn [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures Saga Prefecture]] into a commercial venue.

** ''Zombieland'' was originally imagined as a TV series. However, when all the networks the creators went to shot it down, eventually the creators settled on making [[MidDevelopmentMediumShift a movie out of it]]. The "Zombie Kill of the Week" is pretty clearly a holdover from the TV idea. Ironically, when the movie was proven a hit, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were considering in making a TV SpinOff that never became to be after a failed pilot on Amazon Video, in 2013.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The movie has a nearly identical title to the anime ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'', another zombie-centric HorrorComedy satire. The similarities end there, though, as the anime is actually a parody of IdolSinger shows featuring a cast of undead girls forming a pop band to turn [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures Saga Prefecture]] into a commercial venue.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The movie has a nearly identical title to the anime ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'', another zombie-centric HorrorComedy satire. The similarities end there, though, as the anime is actually a parody of IdolSinger shows featuring a cast of undead girls forming a pop band to save [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures Saga Prefecture]].

* ActorAllusion: Woody Harrelson managed to survive this apocalypse intact. In his [[Film/TwoThousandTwelve previous film]], however, there ''is'' the matter of that annoying supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park...

* ThrowItIn: The conversation between Little Rock and Tallahassee about ''Series/HannahMontana'' was a ThrowItIn by Creator/AbigailBreslin.

** TheCameo of [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] AsHimself, was originally going to be Patrick Swayze AsHimself, and the characters would've referenced ''Film/DirtyDancing'' and ''Ghost''... [[ActorExistenceFailure alas...]]
*** Creator/MarkHamill was also considered for TheCameo role.

** Creator/EmmaStone (''Film/{{Birdman}}'')

* Unlike his Twinkie-obsessed character, Creator/WoodyHarrelson is a vegan and a raw foodist. He did not eat Twinkies for the film, he ate fake ones made of corn meal.

** The zombie apocalypse hasn't stopped [[spoiler: Bill Murray of ''Caddyshack'' fame]] from playing golf.