After a long and troubled journey, Tommy Wirkola's Hollywood debut with Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters finally opened last month. While it didn't set the American box office on fire, it was #1 for a week, and has earned over $100M on the global market. Not too bad. But maybe Wirkola expected something more, like a better marketing campaign, and so he's headed back home to Norway for a sequel to his breakout hit, Dead Snow.
Dead Snow was actually a lot of fun, and became something of a cult hit. The film basically followed a group of students who are attacked by Nazi zombies while on a vacation. The sequel, titled Dead Snow: War of the Dead, has the sole survivor of a zombie attack battling an even larger group of zombies with the help of the Zombie Squad, a professional gang of American zombie killers.
Wirkola: “We have a script that I am super excited about, which is bigger, scarier, funnier, more action-filled and gorier than the previous one, and I can’t wait to unleash another horde of undead Nazi zombies onto the world again.”
The film will be released in English and Norwegian, and begins shooting later this year. [Screen Daily]
