This was a perfect, so perfect marriage in advertising and profitability, but why was it overlooked?

For those of you who don't know, Left 4 Dead is a video game produced by Valve.  You play one of four characters (who are all strangers) in a Zombie apocalypse and your goal is to fight your way to a rescue point to be rescued.

Zombieland looks like it is Left 4Dead:  The Movie.  Four almost strangers (there are two sisters who know each other) meet up and they are fighting their way through a Zombie apocalypse.  Woody Harrelson's character looks like a clean cut version of Francis.

This is where the big drop is going to be - Zombieland the Videogame.  I'm not sure where the movie takes place, but it was filmed in Atlanta...and with L4D2 being set in the South (from Georgia to Louisiana, I believe), then Zombieland could have easily been the movie version of L4D2.  They could have modeled the characters after the movie maybe, but I don't know if the girls (they look young) would have been "acceptable" to whiny parents if they were wielding shotguns...I'm still kind of upset in the enhanced version of ET that the scene where two cops are holding guns in the original, but in the new version they replaced the guns with radios...

Release dates of the two:  Zombieland - October 2nd, and Left 4 Dead 2 - November 17th.  The days apart that these two releases are is 45 days.  Half of that is 27.5.  Round it up to 28, and you have October 30th, the Friday BEFORE Halloween.  L4D2 could have been released that Tuesday the 27th and Zombieland could have opened up on the 30th, and I really believe the two could have turned a lot more profit out of each other.  No, I don't have too much time on my hands   It's OK to admit you weren't the first to see that.

Anywho, I know I'll enjoy Zombieland nonetheless...it looks like a superfun movie.  Like the comedic, fun version of the 28 Weeks series.  If it is successful, maybe they'll make a sequel with four other random strangers!