Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick

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Rhett Reese, writer and producer, and Paul Wernick, Emmy Award-winning producer and writer, bring their immeasurable talents to the big screen with the feature screenplay Zombieland.

The duo first sold the story of Zombieland as a spec pilot to CBS, but the film's producer recognized they had the makings of a major motion picture and took it to Sony for feature development. Reese and Wernick both wrote and executive-produced the film, and were involved in the production from conception to final cut, including being on set. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone as a ragtag group of survivors after the zombie apocalypse. Zombieland opens on October 2.

In 2008, Reese and Wernick sold their original feature pitch Earth vs. Moon to Universal Pictures. They are slated to write and executive-produce the sci-fi epic war movie. Building on their feature successes, the pair was hired to pen the Spider-Man spinoff Venom for Sony Pictures and Marvel Comics.

Reese and Wernick created, wrote, and executive-produced The Joe Schmo Show for Spike TV in 2003. The critically acclaimed reality series drew Spike's highest ratings in history, and went on to be named to numerous Best Of lists, including TIME Magazine's Top 10 TV Shows of 2003 and Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best TV Shows Ever on DVD. The Schmo format has sold internationally, in the U.K., France, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand.

On the heels of Joe Schmo 2, Spike TV fast-tracked the Reese Wernick original series Invasion Iowa, a high concept, high stakes comedy hybrid starring William Shatner. The show premiered on Spike in the first quarter of 2005. Reese and Wernick also created, wrote, and executive-produced the animated comedy pilot, The Tomatos, for MTV.

Wernick has produced several network reality shows, and has won three Emmy Awards for his work in news. Reese has written screenplays for Pixar Animation Studios (Monsters, Inc.), Walt Disney Pictures, Nickelodeon, Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, and Sony Pictures, among others.

Reese and Wernick have collaborated since their high school days together in Phoenix, beginning with a sugar-cube mock-up of Stonehenge in ninth grade.

Having had great success across genres and mediums ranging from reality, comedy and drama television, to sci-fi, horror and comedy features, they plan to further produce and direct.

Follow Rhett on Twitter @rhettreese

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