As a budding screenwriter, Reese met Wernick again as he worked as a television producer, and one of Wernick's jobs,
Big Brother 2, inspired both to do their own take on reality shows,
The Joe Schmo Show.
The Joe Schmo Show was also named on numerous Best Of lists, including
Time magazine's "Top 10 TV Shows of 2003" and
Entertainment Weekly's "50 Best TV Shows Ever on DVD." In 2004, Reese and Wernick created and executive-produced
Stuck on ODB, a comedy reality show starring
Ol' Dirty Bastard (ODB) of the
Wu Tang Clan for Spike TV. However, ODB died before the show ever aired. A year later, Wernick and Reese followed up with
Invasion Iowa, a high-concept, high-stakes comedy hybrid starring
William Shatner. The show premiered on Spike on March 29, 2005. Reese and Wernick's first feature collaboration was the 2009 film
Zombieland, which they created and also executive-produced. The film was released by
Sony Pictures on October 2, 2009, and became the highest-grossing zombie film at the time. Reese and Wernick followed
Zombieland with
Paramount Pictures'
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), starring
Dwayne Johnson,
Channing Tatum, and
Bruce Willis. The sequel outperformed the original, grossing $375 million. In February 2012, it was announced
Universal Studios had acquired Reese and Wernick's script for a feature film adaptation of
Cowboy Ninja Viking. In September 2012, their original science fiction spec screenplay
Epsilon was sold to
Sony Pictures, with plans to co-produce with
Michael De Luca. In April 2015, Reese and Wernick had optioned Thomas Oliver's book
The Real Coke, The Real Story to produce a film about the failed launch of
New Coke. ==Personal life==