Ruben Fleischer Still Loves What ‘Zombieland’ Became

Zombieland came out in 2009 at the height of the post-apocalypse media fad, and helped put actors like Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg on the map. The same is true of its director, Ruben Fleischer, who’s gone on to helm other action-comedies like Venom, Uncharted, and as of this weekend, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t.

Talking to Deadline, Fleischer reminisced about the original Zombieland, whose script he initially dismissed. But once he clocked it as a road trip movie like…