The Disney Channel Original Movie list is about to expand, and some new faces are coming. Zombies 4, the next installment to the Zombies franchise, has just begun production in New Zealand. While Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly are reprising their lead roles as Zed and Addison, Disney has rounded out the cast of Zombies 4 with Swayam Bhatia, Julian Lerner, Freya Skye, Malachi Barton, and Mekonnen Knife as never-before-seen monsters and Lisa Chappell and Jonno Roberts in new adult roles.
Disney’s ‘Zombies 4’ Adds New Faces And New Monsters
Disney’s Zombies 4 is, naturally, a continuation of the Zombies movie series, which began back in 2018 with Zombies. The series starts in the town of Seabrook, where a horrible accident turned half the population into brain-eating zombies. The zombies were quarantined in Zombietown, but fifty years after the accident, they can resist the urge to eat brains with the help of Z-Bands. Milo Manheim plays Zed, a zombie football player who transfers to Seabrook High, where he meets Addison (Meg Donnelly), a cheerleader whose father is in charge of the school’s Zombie Patrol. Despite that, Addison and Zed begin a Romeo and Juliet-style forbidden romance that has its difficulties but eventually persuades the student body to embrace their differences and coexist.
The film’s sequel, Zombies 2 (2020), introduced werewolves into Seabrook, while Zombies 3 – also known as Z3 – brought aliens and the reveal that Addison is part alien via her grandmother. While the franchise left off with Addison and Zed graduating high school, Zombies 4 will pick up with the pair on a road trip during the summer after their first year of college. Their winding path will take the couple into a dispute between Sunnyside and Shadyside, where they meet Zombies 4 cast additions Nova (Freya Skye), Victor (Malachi Barton), Vera (Swayam Bhatia), Ray (Julian Lerner) and Vargas (Mekonnen Knife), all monsters that no one in Seabrook – zombie, werewolf, or alien – has ever seen before.
Production on Zombies 4 (working title) has reportedly begun in New Zealand, with Paul Hoen returning as director and Josh Cagan, David Light, and Joseph Raso having penned the script. Hoen, Light, and Raso will also serve as executive producers alongside Manheim, Donnelly, Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky, and Mahita P. Simpson.
