The zombies and cheerleaders are returning to Disney Channel.
The network said Monday that it has greenlighted Zombies 3, a third installment in the musical TV movie series. Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim will reprise their roles as Seabrook High School’s star-crossed zombie/cheerleader couple Zed and Addison.
Paul Hoen, a DGA Award winner who has previous directed 15 Disney Channel Original Movies (The Luck of the Irish, Jump In and more), will direct what is being called a “trequel,” from a script by David Light and Joseph Raso, who were previously nominated for a Humanitas Prize for Zombies. Light, Raso and Suzanne Farwell (Disney’s Upside Down Magic) are executive producers.
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In Zombies 3, Zed and Addison are beginning their final year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. Zed is anticipating an athletic scholarship that will make him the first zombie to attend college, while Addison is gearing up for Seabrook’s first international cheer-off competition. Then suddenly, extraterrestrial beings appear around Seabrook, provoking something other than friendly competition.
Disney Channel said the premiere telecast of 2018’s Zombies and the 2020 sequel ranked as No. 1 among kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 for the respective years in which they debuted. The music videos from the movies have garnered more than 1.2 billion views on DisneyMusicVevo.
“After the enormous success of Zombies 2, we wanted to raise the stakes in this third and final installment,” said Lauren Kisilevsky, vp original movies at Disney Branded Television. “So when the ultimate outsiders descend on Seabrook, our team of cheerleaders, zombies and werewolves must band together to face a threat of galactic proportions that may change the face of Seabrook forever.”
Production is scheduled to begin this spring in Toronto. The movie is a production of Bloor Street Productions.
