Fans of Zombieland have been wanting a Zombieland 2 since the original first arrived. And if everything goes well, they may just have it in 2019. Exactly 10 years after the first movie’s release.

Writer Paul Wernick, who penned the screenplay for the original with Rhett Reese, recently offered an update on the long-awaited sequel. And while he could make no official announcements, he does sound confident that we’ll finally be seeing the movie soon.

Continue below to see what he had to say.

A new writer has been hired to work on the screenplay for Zombieland 2, a follow-up to the 2009 horror-comedy, for Sony Pictures.

Sony has brought in Dave Callaham for the next draft of the script. Callaham’s previous screenplay credits include DOOM, Horsemen, Tell Tale, and The Expendables, and he also had a story credit on the recent Godzilla reboot.