Amazon Passes On ‘Zombieland’ TV Series, Creator Says It Was “Hated Out Of Existence”

Well, that was fast. It’s been almost two months since Amazon announced it had funded a Zombieland TV series pilot and a month since it debuted. Now it’s cancelled.

Writer Rhett Reese, who along with Paul Wernick wrote the cult movie and the pilot, went to Twitter to express his frustration:

Our Zombieland series will not be moving forward on Amazon.Sad for everyone involved.

— Rhett Reese (@RhettReese) May 17, 2013

I’ll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans.You guys successfully hated it out of existence.

— Rhett Reese (@RhettReese) May 17, 2013

Stranger still is that many of the responses to his tweet were positive. The show was incredibly awful. I can’t really place the blame entirely on Rheese and Wernick because the script was witty enough, but between the terrible casting and the dime store budget, the episode could’ve been shot by YouTubers and been a better product. Zombieland was one of a number of pilots that Amazon funded in their bid to become the next Netflix, but it’s obvious that they preferred quantity over quality and I’m curious how many of those pilots will ultimately become shows.

Source: Screen Crush