Posts tagged edgar wright

Speaking to Ain’t It Cool News Simon Pegg shed some light on his eagerly anticipated next collaboration between himself and Edgar Wright. He hopes to complete a first draft with Wright before shooting ‘Star Trek 2′ for the tentatively titled ‘The World’s End,’ the final part of the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy, the series of insanely entertaining movies directed by Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost in the two lead roles: “We already started the conception process, so it’s just a question of when we can get together. I’m just about to start shooting a movie here in the UK, so maybe between that and ‘Star Trek 2′ we might get a chance to bang out a first draft if we’re lucky.”

The writor-actor also explains that their next movie isn’t going to be the same as ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz,’ while still trying to manage fans expectations: “I wouldn’t want to become predictable or be the guys who do that. The next thing that we do will hopefully be… you know, in writing our new thing, Edgar and me have been very determined – that we’re going to start in earnest very, very soon – to not just do the same thing again, to do something very different. Not to the point of alienating people who want something, but just give people something new and something different. You can’t just stay where you are forever. You have to mutate to survive, and I think we’re going to make sure that we do that. I’d hate to become stale and predictable. People are already making films that are kind of like the sort of thing we might do. I want to stay a little bit ahead of the curve at least.”

‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ are both two of my favourite films of the last decade, both thoroughly worthy of their cult classic status. I couldn’t be more excited by this film!