It’s pretty rare for any movie series to get its first sequel a decade after the original movie. But “Zombieland: Double Tap” has done exactly that, hitting theaters a full ten years after “Zombieland.”
That lengthy gap makes what is now the “Zombieland” franchise in a weird place for viewers. Did Sony make a new one because they plan on making more? Or is this more of a fun little one-off reunion movie? With these things carrying fairly small budgets, Sony is probably going to keep its options open, in a “we’ll see how this plays out” kind of way.
That being said, now that “Zombieland: Double Tap” has created a franchise, viewers are going to understandably wonder if the film follows in the footsteps of pretty much every other franchise movie the past few years by including a mid- or post-credits scene that teases future entries.
The answer is yes, there are both mid-credits and post-credits scenes for the sequel to “Zombieland.” The mid-credits scene starts about a minute into the credits, and obviously the other scene is all the way after the credits. So if you need to dart out to the bathroom you will have time between the two scenes.
For those who are just here to find out the answer to the question posed by our headline and don’t want to know anything else, now is the time to close this tab. Because we’re going to talk about those extra scenes here for a second.
Seriously, there are some big cameos after the movie has officially ended, and we’ll be talking about it freely for the rest of this article.
There are spoilers from here on out.
The mid-credits scene takes us back to just before the zombie outbreak, in a callback to one of the first film’s most memorable scenes: the death of Bill Murray. As you may recall, that death scene saw Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) ask Murray if he had any regrets, and he replies “Garfield, maybe.”
So flashback takes place during the press junket for “Garfield 3: Flabby Tabby” — this is not a real movie, as the real version of the “Garfield” movie franchise stopped after two. The junket is attended by several real journalists, including Josh Horowitz and Al Roker.
We see Murray make jokes with the various journalists, but eventually the lengthy bonus scene gets to the point when Roker asks him to pretend to spit up a hairball. While Murray makes his attempt, Roker stands next to him and gets in on the fun. Or so it seems — Roker is actually infected with the zombie plague and is turning into one at that moment.
Chaos ensues, and Murray escapes out to the lobby to find a lot more infected. He fights through them while uttering pithy Garfield quotes, closing out the scene with a “I hate Mondays.”
The post-credits scene is an outtake from one of the junket interviews, and it sees Murray doing his hairball again — but with a twist. He says he’s going to do a hairball in Spanish this time, and it sounds slightly different when he does it.
Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone reprise their roles from the first film, while Thomas Middleditch, Zoey Deutch, Rosario Dawson, Avan Jogia and Luke Wilson are new additions. Ruben Fleischer directs.
7 Actresses Who've Demanded Equal Pay, From Emma Stone to Viola Davis (Photos)
After Patricia Arquette's Oscar acceptance speech and Jennifer Lawrence's Lenny essay last year, more and more actresses have spoken out about pay inequality.
Patricia Arquette
Arquette delivered a moving speech about pay inequality during her 2015 Oscar acceptance speech for her role in "Boyhood," but she didn't stop there. In August 2016, she told TheWrap, "Look, inequality is in 98 percent of all industries, so I’m not surprised it’s still in Hollywood. That’s just part and parcel with what’s happening across the nation."
However, she is seeing some progress: "A lot of studios are actually really making it a priority. There’s incremental changes as far as Hollywood goes."
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Hilary Swank
In October 2016, Swank told Chelsea Handler on "Chelsea" that "Boys Don't Cry" didn't pay enough to cover her health insurance. Then she revealed that she earned only 5 percent of what one of her male counterparts earned on another movie.
"But the male hadn't had any kind of critical success, but had been in a movie where he was 'hot,"' she said. "And he got offered $10 million, and I got offered $500,000."
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Emma Stone
The "La La Land" actress told Vogue in November 2016, “We should all be treated fairly and paid fairly. I’ve been lucky enough to have equal pay to my male costars. Not ‘lucky.’ I’ve had pay equal to my male costars in the past few films. But our industry ebbs and flows in a way that’s like, ‘How much are you bringing into the box office?’"
“What are we at [nationally]? Seventy-nine cents to the dollar?” Stone continued. “It’s insane. There’s no excuse for it anymore.”
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Michelle Rodriguez
In May 2016, Rodriguez invoked the S word in discussing Hollywood's gender pay gap. "It’s like being born a slave. You know it’s like, ‘Oh, damn. Darn my luck. I wish I was born somewhere else or maybe some other way,'” the actress said. “But it is what it is.”
Robin Wright
The "House of Cards" star demanded to be paid the same as co-star Kevin Spacey and threatened to go "public" if Netflix didn't cough up the dough. "I was like, ‘I want to be paid the same as Kevin,'” Wright told media at the Rockefeller Foundation earlier this year. "There are very few films or TV shows where the male, the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal. And they are in ‘House of Cards.'”
She added, "I was like, ‘You better pay me or I’m going to go public,'” Wright said. “And they did.”
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Viola Davis
In February 2016, the "How to Get Away With Murder" actress told Mashable, "I believe in equal pay, first of all. I’m sorry, if a woman does the same job as a man, she should be paid the same amount of money. She just should. That’s just the way the world should work. What are you telling your daughter when she grows up? ‘You've got to just understand that you’re a girl. You have a vagina, so that’s not as valuable.’ What are you telling her?"
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Emmy Rossum
The star of "Shameless" nearly scuttled Showtime's plans for an eighth season when she demanded to be paid the same as series co-star William H. Macy, who plays her father on the show (a move that Macy supported). The gambit worked: She wound up getting a new deal.
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Many stars rallied against gender pay gap in Hollywood — and “Shameless” star Emmy Rossum actually won
After Patricia Arquette's Oscar acceptance speech and Jennifer Lawrence's Lenny essay last year, more and more actresses have spoken out about pay inequality.