Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves. The quiet suburb where Chuck Norris lives in quiet retirement just got a whole lot noisier. Because in a move no one saw coming, the king of roundhouse kicks is returning. But he is not here to settle into a rocking chair, he is here to pilot a zombie-infested airplane. Introducing: Zombie Plane.
Yes, it’s real. In Zombie Plane (2025), a commercial flight from Sydney to Los Angeles is overrun by zombies. Your standard “this was just a flight to get through jetlag” turns into “this is now an airborne apocalypse.” To save the day, the powers-that-be recruit Chuck Norris (playing “Chuck Norris”), Vanilla Ice (playing “Vanilla Ice”), and a host of celebrity cameo-ers turned secret agents. Yes, Vanilla Ice trained under Chuck, apparently. Because that’s how deep these 90s nostalgia vibes go in this film.
In short: it’s Die Hard meets Night of the Living Dead meets Ice Ice Baby. It may not make sense, but that’s the point.
Let’s talk about retirement for a moment. Retirement is when you put your boots away, sip something mildly alcoholic and occasionally brag to your grandkids. But Chuck Norris apparently skipped all that and went straight to “I’ll take the zombie gig.” At 85 (give or take a beard hair), Norris is back on screen to show us that you never really retire if there are undead requiring immediate roundhouse justice. If there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that zombies did not expect to get their faces offended by a man whose stare alone can send souls back to the void.
Plus, the promotional machine seems to be leaning into the absurdity. One article notes the film “uses comedy, the zombie genre and ’90s nostalgia as a vehicle, to comment on pop-culture as much as it feeds it”. Which basically means: buckle up, because this is gonna be meta and wild.
Yes, Vanilla Ice is back. Not as a rapper dropping new singles (though I wouldn’t rule that out), but as a secret agent whose backstory includes being trained by Chuck Norris. Expect a lot of 90s pop references, possibly some awkward rhymes mid-zombie-kill, and a kind of “I can’t believe they let me do this, but here I am” energy. Sophie Monk, in fact, reportedly mocks him in the film, calling him a “one-hit wonder and a has-been” at one point. That’s your self-awareness quota right there. So yes, Vanilla Ice is now also a zombie-slaying operative. We’re living in strange times.
Let’s be real, Zombie Plane is not going for Oscar gold. It’s leaning full-tilt into the “this movie is such a glorious mess that it will provoke laughter, disbelief, and possible eye-rolling into orbit.” The movie basically has everything, from celebrity versions of themselves fighting zombies, plus the absurd notion that one of them was trained by Chuck Norris and the icing on the cake, cameos galore (Ice-T, Brian Austin Green, and more are said to appear). A premise that defies suspension of disbelief, because “zombies on a plane” is already the kind of setup you buy precisely because it makes no sense.
When a film embraces its chaos, that’s when it becomes fun. You don’t go into Zombie Plane expecting tight script, deep character arcs, or subtle horror. You go in expecting Chuck Norris to punch a zombie, Vanilla Ice to drop a non-hit rap line, and someone somewhere to question why they bought a ticket on that flight.
Zombie Plane is not just a movie. It’s a cinematic dare. It’s Chuck Norris’s bold statement: “I may retire, but I’m not done with killing undead monstrosities just yet.” And in true Chuck Norris fashion, if the zombies refuse to die, he’ll kill them until they do. Or at least until the credits roll.
So get your popcorn on November 13, suspend your disbelief, and prepare your inner snark. Because Zombie Plane is airborne, and the only thing worse than a zombie outbreak might just be the jokes along the way.
