Harrelson to Battle Zombies

Woody Harrelson is one of those actors who’s sort of flown under the radar for most of his career. You get the feeling he’s not exactly living a clean life (wasn’t he doing drugs with Owen Wilson or something?), and yet, he’s still out there and going strong.

Did you see him in No Country For Old Men? Excellent. And he’s got eight projects in the works, so he must be doing something right.

Now the actor who got his big break on Cheers is set to battle zombies. He’s signed to star in the horror comedy Zombieland, which Ruben Fleischer is directing for Columbia Pictures. The flick’s set for a 2009 release.

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Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (The Joe Schmo Show), Zombieland revolves around a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies. Harrelson plays one of the men, a zombie fighter named Albuquerque. He seems very malleable when it comes to roles, so I’m sure he’ll do just fine.

Image: Woody Harrelson, Sleepwalking, Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2008