Whenever Viola Davis‘ name pops up anywhere on a film’s billing, it’s more than safe to assume a healthy dose of onscreen greatness. Whether it’s Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Woman King, or one of what will no doubt be many DC Universe projects, the EGOT winner has a near-incontestable penchant for bringing the thunder, so to speak.
In fact, we think she’s one of the few actresses today who could successfully breathe new life back into a spooky trend that fizzled out back in the 2010s, and we’re not talking about vampires.
In an interview with IndieWire, Davis revealed that, out of all the project types she has an interest in tackling, the zombie genre is immensely high on that list, and we reckon that the idea of giving Davis her own Train to Busan is one that would garner plenty of backers.
“Listen, I would love to do a zombie movie. Now I say that, in shooting it, I don’t know if I can distinguish between the real and the fiction because if someone was running at me as a zombie, I don’t know. You might hear some stories. But I want a Train to Busan. I want my version of Train to Busan. I want to fight some zombies. That’s what I want to do.”
She’s commanded two iterations of the Suicide Squad, led Dahomey’s most elite military unit, and fathered Michael Jordan over the course of her career, and that’s just counting her most recent accomplishments. And especially after watching her command the screen and the battlefield in The Woman King, we should in fact be surprised and, frankly, disappointed if no one decides to slap a machete in Davis’ hands and cut her loose against an army of the undead.
In the meantime, Davis’s next big screen appearance will be The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, where she’ll portray Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the woman responsible for creating the titular contest, which comes to theaters on Nov. 17.