Some SPOILERS follow for Zombieland: Double Tap.
For director Ruben Fleischer and his fellow creatives, the most nerve-wracking thing about wrangling the Zombieland gang back together for the upcoming Zombieland: Double Tap was whether or not they could match let alone top the 2009 original. Fleischer has found solace in the reactions to the film coming out of early test screenings.
“The responses were fantastic,” Fleischer told the press during a recent edit bay visit on the Sony Pictures lot. “The thing that’s most gratifying to me is one of the questions we asked people was how this compares to the original. I don’t want to blow too much smoke up my own ass but overwhelmingly, like 90 percent of people said it was as good if not better than the original.”
Source: IGN.com Zombieland 2 Director on the Challenge of Topping the Original