One of the highlights of the summer movie season is expected to be The World's End, the third comedy from Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, and Nick Frost after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Here's the brand new US trailer for the movie,which looks pretty good from here. You can watch the UK trailer, which has mostly different footage, below:
Wright and Pegg's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (spelling flavors with a "u", classic), which so far has included Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, will reach its conclusion soon. Wright and Pegg will film The World's End this fall, with intention for a spring 2013 release. As before, Wright will direct with Pegg starring with Nick Frost. Here's the synopsis:
"20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his [...]
Well, this is pretty fun: Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright has been asked to direct an episode of The Walking Dead, season 2. The man is a certified zombie expert. Unfortunately, he seems like he's not up for it: “I really enjoyed the first season, and I wouldn’t wanna be the guy that comes in and fucks it up.” Aw, come on, Edgar.
It's been six long years since Hot Fuzz, the last movie Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright made together, but that wait is almost over as their new movie The World's End is coming out August 23rd. Starring Pegg and Nick Frost as some friends on an apocalyptic pub crawl, it looks to have everything you expect from a Wright/Pegg venture, including that patented fence gag.
Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through pretty pictures and less pretty words, the behind-the-scenes secrets the creators, writers, and cast discuss about their show. If you've ever questioned why Roseanne had that Godzilla toy, this is for you.
Show: Spaced
Episode: "Ends" (S01E07)
Original Airdate: November 5, 1999
Episode Plot: Tim's (Simon Pegg) ex-girlfriend is back, and Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) isn't sure what to think. Mike (Nick Frost) also attempts to reenlist with the Territorial Army.
Players Involved: Edgar Wright, director, and Patton Oswalt, special guest
Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim) apparently used to appear on British TV shows about young filmmakers all the time when he was a teenager in the early and mid '90s. Wright posted this video on his blog this week, alongside several more appearances on similar shows. Between these videos and Judd Apatow's interviews with comedians he looked up to when he was a kid, it seems like a lot of our top comedy directors were precocious teens. Someone please find video of a teenaged Dan Harmon!
Edgar Wright says his next film is "kind of like a musical" and also "slightly a departure." Cool, that clears up approximately nothing. Here are some loglines I've narrowed it down to, under the framework of this plentiful new information:
- Musicalmost: it's like a musical, but every time the characters are about to break into song, they don't
- a super-serious, non-musical biopic about Winston Churchill's albino second cousin Rodney Churchill
- a traditional Broadway musical about anthropomorphized weather phenomenon. The scene where El Niño meets the Santa Ana winds is…stormy (hey-o!!)
- PUNk: a hard-rock opera about the underground music scene in early 70s London that [...]
