Zombieland: Bill Murray’s cameo was going to be made by another legendary actor

zombieland has one of the craziest cameos in the zombie subgenre: Bill Murray’s appearance as Billy Murray. However, the protagonist of Ghostbustersnow embroiled in a spiral of controversy over numerous cases of harassment, was not the first choice for the film’s creative team at Sony Pictures. Rhett Reese, screenwriter of the feature film, has now explained on Twitter that the main idea he had in mind was to get Joe Pescione of the artists of One of ours that he is a legend among the mafia genre, and that we could see him a few years ago in The Irishrubbing shoulders with his fellow warriors: Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro and Al Pacino.

Murray was one of the last options to appear in Zombieland

“We wanted Joe Pesci for what turned out to be Bill Murray in Zombieland. We warned Pesci’s agent that he was a small role. he l said: ‘There are no small papers, only small money.’ It was clearly a no.“, explained Reese. And it is that Pesci’s fees should not be exactly cheap considering that he has been part of some of the most important feature films in the history of modern cinema, such as Once Upon a Time in America, Home Alone or Casino Among other names, Reese explains that he also the participation of Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sylvester Stallone, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Mark Hamill or Patrick Swayze was valued..

Bill Murray ended up being chosen to play himself in a very small role.. Murray has not stood out in the last stage of his career for having assumed leading roles, and in fact what he is most remembered for is still for projects from the eighties and nineties (Caught in time, the wacky squad or the mentioned Ghostbusters), in addition to Lost in Translation. Murray will appear in one of the upcoming Marvel movies, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. She has been seen in the trailer and for now she looks quite curious.