Between multiple attempts over the last few years that just didn’t work out for one reason or another, combined with the distraction that is the successful Deadpool movies, we begin to see why this movie took so long to produce.
More than one person has remarked about how much like 2009 the new Zombieland actually feels.
Luckily, it seems the wait was worth it, and once you sit down in the theater, it won’t feel like much time has passed at all.
This likely, at least in part, is because the new movie waited for the screenwriting due of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese to find the right script.