'Zombie Plane' – Chuck Norris and Vanilla Ice Playing Themselves in Upcoming Zombie Action Movie
QuoteChuck Norris will battle the undead in the action-comedy Zombie Plane, THR reports this morning. The "nostalgia-soaked" film will also star Vanilla Ice and Sophie Monk.
THR details, "Zombie Plane centers on a secret government organization that recruits celebrities to be undercover agents, who together must save humanity from a zombie attack."
And yes, the actors are all playing themselves. The site notes, "Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice and Sophie Monk play themselves (actually, Norris plays Commander Chuck Norris, who mentored and trained Ice into becoming a deadly secret agent), but the feature is reportedly full of celebrity cameos, with a '90s pop soundtrack including tracks by Vanilla Ice himself."
Lav Bodnaruk and Michael Pier are directing the zombie film for Radioactive and Entertainment Squad. According to THR, the film was already shot earlier this year in Australia.
Entertainment Squad's Shaked Berenson (Turbo Kid, Tales of Halloween) teases, "Zombie Plane uses comedy, the zombie genre and '90s nostalgia as a vehicle, to comment on pop-culture as much as it feeds it, creating unforgettable one-liners and situational comedy to the extreme."
Studio Dome will launch international sales at the American Film Market in November.
Not a lste April Fools Day joke it seems.
Chuck Norris is 83, man. He's in great shape for 83, but still.
They lost me at Vanilla Ice.
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And yes, the actors are all playing themselves. The site notes, "Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice and Sophie Monk play themselves (actually, Norris plays Commander Chuck Norris, who mentored and trained Ice into becoming a deadly secret agent),
This is where it lost me. Now if this had been something like Bruce Campbell's "My Name is Bruce", where the leads were playing up on how they were sad sacks and washed up, then it might have been fun.