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Mar 24, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
We would not be denied. Except, we kept getting fucking denied. This time, by @kevinbacon. Well, not directly. He reached out to us after the film released, confessing be a closet Zombie guy, that he loved the movie, said he had never even been sent the pages we wrote for him See, we were nobodies back then. Zombies weren’t cool. Walking Dead was just a comic book. Our best guess is we were getting flat no's from agents based on the title page alone. Kevin subsequently treated @rhettreese & me to breakfast, and yes, no shit,
Mar 21, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
So a no-go on Swayze & @theslystallone. Our fearless leader @gavinpolone called: ‘Fire up the @hamillhimself draft.’ We would not be deterred. #BillMurray hadn’t yet been mentioned, for we would have never in our wildest imagination thought we could get him. So we used the force. And got a forceful fuck no. #zombieland