Zombie Plane

Interesting facts

Zombie Plane is an upcoming Australian action comedy film directed by Lav Bodnaruk and Michael Mier about a government organisation's efforts to prevent a zombie outbreak using high-profile celebrities. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Vanilla Ice, Sophie Monk, and Chuck Norris as fictitious versions of themselves. A press release on the film stated that it "uses comedy, the zombie genre and '90s nostalgia as a vehicle, to comment on pop-culture as much as it feeds it".

Production

The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly jointly announced on 16 October 2023 that Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice, and Sophie Monk would be playing themselves in Zombie Plane, an action comedy film which was directed by Australian filmmakers Lav Bodnaruk and Michael Mier. THR also noted that the film would feature additional celebrity cameos as well as "a '90s pop soundtrack including tracks by Ice himself".

Mier said that the idea for the film was inspired by a TMZ episode screenwriter William Strong had seen, in which Ice told the reporter that some kind of biohazard had caused his flight to be grounded. The script employs self-referential humour that "mercilessly mocks its main stars": for example, Monk spends a considerable amount of time deriding Ice's career in the film, at one point referring to him as "a one-hit wonder and a has-been".

A June 17, 2025 Variety article reported that principal photography on the film had been completed in Gold Coast, Queensland, with Ice-T, Brian Austin Green, Stephen Curry, and Kyle Sandilands (in a cameo appearance) confirmed to have joined the cast. Scenes "mostly in a purpose-built 60-meter long airplane" were also shot in Brisbane earlier in 2023, as reported by THR on 1 November 2023.

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