Then we got a chance to make “Hot Fuzz,” and now it seemed the logical thing to do a third. We thought with “Shaun,” if we could sell this to Lufthansa and they would show it on a flight, we’d be lucky. We would never be so arrogant as to assume we would be able make three films.įrost: We thought, being British filmmakers, we were lucky to make one. It wasn’t like we set out to make a trilogy. We figured that if we could possibly get to do it again, we could wrap it up as a nice sort of threesome. They were not direct sequels, and obviously not the same characters or stories, but they were definitely variations on a theme. Pegg: During the “Hot Fuzz” press tour, we realized we’d been able to make two films that were, in essence, thematically connected. When did the word “trilogy” first come up? This is your third and supposedly final film with Edgar Wright. I met up with Pegg, who plays the funny and tragic Gary, and Frost, who plays the straight-laced but pent-up Andy, in New York last week. British pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been working at the acting game together for a long while – first on the English TV series “Spaced,” later in two films for director Edgar Wright – “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” – then for Greg Mottola in “Paul.” There were also some projects on their own, but they’ve known for a number of years that they would get back together with Wright, to kind of finish up what they started in “Shaun” and Fuzz.” Their newest collaboration, “The World’s End,” is a comedy, with serious edges, about trying to recapture one’s youth, loss of identity, alcoholism and, oh, yeah, an alien invasion, all set during a get-together of friends attempting to recreate a pub crawl they went on but didn’t finish right after high school.
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