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Simon Pegg And Edgar Wright To Begin Plotting THE WORLD'S END This Fall?
Beaks here...
With Edgar Wright commencing principal photography today on SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (congrats and godspeed!), and Simon Pegg nearing an early June start on PAUL (with co-writer Nick Frost and director Greg Mottola), it's just way too early to start getting worked up over the final chapter in their "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy", THE WORLD'S END. So curse that wicked Pegg for ever-so-briefly discussing the mysterious project with Entertainment Weekly's Adam B. Vary when it sounds like we won't be seeing the damn thing until 2011. Here's the salient paragraph:
Finally, this fall, Pegg says he hopes to reteam with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright on another of their genre-bending films, tentatively titled The World's End. "If Shaun of the Dead was about leaving your 30s and taking responsibility," says Pegg, "and Hot Fuzz was about being a man, then the next one will be about being an old man," Pegg bursts out laughing, "being f---ing 40, which I am approaching. Edgar isn't, the little bastard."
I don't know how far along on the script Pegg and Wright are, but they're notoriously meticulous plotters (and we love them for this), so a late '09 start seems hopeful. Fortunately, we'll have SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD and PAUL (which Pegg also discusses in the EW article) to keep us occupied until... THE WORLD'S END!
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And I Feel Fine
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Wooha, with this and the V remake, we're in business people...
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Good day.
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I love Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz!
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Let's all forget some of the crap he's been in since Hot Fuzz. These are films by geeks FOR geeks!
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I've been reading it and it's absolutely perfect for Wright's style.
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And can we get Pegg & Frost as dwarves in the Hobbit???
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i thought marvel wanted to have that up and ready before avengers came out?any word on when they are starting production on that one?
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I mean, I love Sean of the Dead. A pitch- perfect classic. And Hot Fuzz had a decent movie in it somewhere. But there was so much padding. So many failed jokes for every good one. So much wanky editing - do we really need a montage of sub-Guy Ritchie style shots every time someone opens a filing cabinet? Didn't someone somewhere take a look at it and decide that it needed some judicious editing? I hope they tone down their excesses for the next one and get back to a lean and tightly-plotted script.
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Stop enjoying yourself being fellated by all these Hollywood arseholes and use your new-found clout to further the cause of 2000ad!We want a Strontium Dog movie and we want one NOW!
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Zenith. Or ABC Warriors. Or Nikolai Dante. Come on, Simon, get with the fucking programme!
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But sadly I just can't. It's just not my sense of humour I suppose, but I'm happy for their successes.
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But I like in a town in Canada that is almost exactly like the village in Hot Fuzz, so I got an extra 50% joy out of the movie. A festival, swans, obsession about buskers, maintaining an "old" feel, all that stuff.
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make that live, not like in a town.
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Oh yea, Marc Forster. Too bad, because these guys would be such an easy though obvious fit.
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Excuse me while I dig myself my grave...
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HF was well made and pretty clever.
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Mar 30, 2009 2:41:57 PM CDT
Hot Fuzz is a great film. Its mature and deftly written.
by lovecraftfan
From its wonderfully literary allusions to Agatha Christie, its halirious satire of small English town muder mysteries, to its great characters and deft plotting. There was even some nice action. Hot Fuzz is a far more mature and better written film than Shaun and I love Shaun.
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It's subjective, really. I'm as English as Pegg, but half the time his humour leaves me cold. That's the joy of comedy - hit and miss. For every skit that worked - from Monty Python to Little Britain = there were two that didn't. The point was that the writers never stopped trying. The day that writers think they've found 'funny' is the day the idea croaks - see 'Friends' for example.Meantime, I'll flag 'Father Ted' up as the best-written comedy of the last two decades. Discuss...
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but their movies are overated, decent films, but far from hillarious and classics, and I second a 2000AD Strontium Dog or Sam Slade movie.
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just said it all for me, the fecker
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Ooh, a Sam Slade movie? Now you're talking, chap! How about a full-on 'Verdus is burning' storyline with Boots and Cutie?A whole robot world out to kill off the one human private eye trying to shut it down? Classic storytelling, my man!
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wow man, that brings back some great memories,
and theres some great movies just waiting to be made there, a whole citadel of flesh and shit I think I remember in one of them I also think they should use the "Judgement Day?" storyline for the new Dredd movie, (but somehow elbow Judge Death in of course) -
How abot 'Sinister/Dexter' with a Tarantino script?How about Ridley Scott's 'Indigo Prime'?How about Brett Ratner's 'The V.C.'s'? Ok, we'll forget that last one...
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Run Fatboy and Lose Friends ... double stinkbombs. Maybe Star Trek will help (?)
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You're a man after my own heart. Now, tell me what you thought of 'Ace Trucking Co.'
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Give it a rest Pegg.
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In a totally non-comedic kind of way.
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A movie about New Jersey? Nice!
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I had to think for a second then, fuck me, Garp, the Speedo Ghost, yea that was awesome, Can you remember one called "Big Dave" heres the overview from wiki Big Dave first appeared in prog 842 in his first story which featured Saddam Hussein trying to take over the world and turn everyone into "poofs" with the aid of some scary aliens. Big Dave, "the hardest man in Manchester", manages to stop Saddam's plan with the help of Terry Waite.
If this story was controversial then the next story surpassed it. It featured the British Royal Family as robots plus Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson as a pair of horny drunks. The story ends with Dave in bed with both royals.
It split 2000 AD fans' opinion down the middle, with some praising it as the best series the comic had ever run, while others thought it was nothing more than puerile rubbish haha I just remember it being bat shit crazy, I also remember loving "Skizz" to for some reason. Going to have to root all my old issues out now. -
... is that he's got too big. He's the kind of comedy actor who should be doing British sitcoms and movies, not American stuff. The same with Ricky Gervais. They exist in a strange limbo where they'll never be blockbuster stars but are too big to do any home-grown stuff anymore.
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Seriously - An alien crash-lands in Burmy-Gam in the mid-Eighties and tries to educate a 'Madness' fan into helping him quit the planet? Fucking amazing Alan Moore story! ET? Bollocks!
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haha jesus, it makes sense now. And I believe it got me into Madness
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That one kinda sucked.
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Hot Fuzz is a great movie( I watch it almost every time it's on cable). Shaun of The Dead was a bit overrated, but I enjoyed as well. Looking forward to their next colab.
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If the Academy didn't have their heads up their asses that script should have gotten an Oscar-nomination.
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... when he was filming in Cardiff with David Schwimmer. When I say 'at' I mean I was in a club and so was he. Still counts!! 2011 is too far away.
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ANT-MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and it BETTER tie into the other movies.
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ANNNNNNTTTTTTT-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
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Don't worry - even if it's the end of the world, you can still find great reviews on mymavra.com!Remember, it's not your Mavra... it's MY Mavra!See you there.
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Hands-down, HF was my favorite film of 2007. Take a British black comedy and blend it with every ridiculous American cop and action movie cliche imaginable, then crank it all up to 11, and yeah, you've got a slice of fried gold. (And AngelinasOilBoy, having the mundane "paperwork" scenes edited like a goddamn Michael Bay movie, with about 4 edits per second, was hilarious in and of itself.) The more I watch it, the funnier it gets -- there are more laugh-out-loud sight gags and hilarious lines in that film than in the last dozen Farelly Bros/Seth Rogen American "comedies" I've seen.
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Saw that in the theater with my friends. I've never seen so many people laugh so much at a movie! I thought Shawn of the Dead made a better repeat-viewing movie, but Hot Fuzz was so frickin' funny the first time through that my sides literally hurt when we got out of the theater!
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"there are more laugh-out-loud sight gags and hilarious lines in that film than in the last dozen Farelly Bros/Seth Rogen American "comedies" I've seen."
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...Hopefully they work more on making the fucking comedy, you know, funny this time around. There is still the stink of Run Fatboy Run hanging around Pegg too. Jesus, why did that have to happen?
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But opinion is subjective. I love that film so much that it makes Shaun look mediocre. And I too, love Shaun! Mind you, I'm a Westcountry fella, so I gets it more than most. Run Fat Boy and How To Lose.. were both big hits in the uk (as was ghost town), which suggests these guys are very popular here. Fuck it, we'll keep them and you yanks can keep the Apatow lot. Fair exchange don't you think?
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Who gives a fuck what the movie's about, 'cause I'll be there anyway.
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Shouldn't be hard to copy the hd-dvd content to a blu-ray disc now would it??? And Shaun of the Dead blu-ray to plz. tyvm
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Mar 30, 2009 6:15:28 PM CDT
Spaced... the Movies, with different characters and plots.
by stereotypical evil archer
Why can't they make film with each other every other year? It would be good for the world...too bad it's ending.
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I wish they did a movie about vampires too!!!
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...and also with spaced...is how every single character in them is so well thought out, written and then perfectly cast...It also seems like they have no problem giving some of the funniest lines to these supporting roles and then for the most part playing the straight guy...and to The Penultimate Gunslinger...I think we need to let this side of the truth and the one he's writing with Merchant come out before we say if Ricky Gervais can be a leading man or not in america... besides I thought Ghost Town was a pretty good movie with a nice heart to it...
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according to Hollywood. They certainly don't hire actors that old.
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Mar 30, 2009 10:17:42 PM CDT
FOR SPACED I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO WRIGHT/PEGG/STEVENSON!!
by thefuckingcreepythinman
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Mar 31, 2009 5:48:49 AM CDT
As long as Pegg stays out of Ghostbusters - he can do whatever h
by juansanchez
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The original script was bloody awful, I couldn't even finish it. It literally gave me a headache. There was so much duplicate material, every scene read like deja vu. Edgar rewrote it, anybody read the production draft?
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Seriosuly, if only all films could rock on the way that film did. I saw it on a whim, never hearing a thing about it, and could not believe what a satisfying experience it was. Indiana jones... Watchmen.... what the fuck happened guys?
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And will they be in The World's End? And please god can Mark Heap be in this. The man is a comic whirlwind of such skill that he stole the show in Spaced and Green Wing, not an easy feat amongst such esteemed company.
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That seemed to be the premise of the last, long hour of Hot Fuzz. Hilarious - but for the fact that a market town WAS shot up, in 1987: Hungerford. 17 people died and thank god ownership of firearms was restricted as a result. The film-makers were so busy parodying Michael 'I love violence' Bay, that they didn't notice they had become him. The good news is that Pegg and Wright are stupendously talented and very funny, so their next film will no doubt be a total return to form.
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thought Hot Fuzz was shit. Honestly just do not understand the success of that film. Its not even funny, just one sketch after another for 2 hours without any real plot. I think Americans just like it for the novelty value of a British action film. But one of the greatest films ever it is not.
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First two-thirds is a quirky little British movie, then the major plot twist, and then a balls-out action movie parody. Crusty jugglers!
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After the success of Iron Man I haven't heard a single thing about it. It's like Marvel realized they couldn't put it out in time along with Thor and Iron Man 2 and Captain America, so they just decided to kill it and forbid everyone from talking about it.
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We seriously need a D.R. & Quinch movie!!!
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I brought that up a while back and had troll like fanboys questioning my parentage.
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Was good in kind of a 'Not so good' kind of way. It makes funny with zombies, which are supposed to be scary. Get it? Scary meet Funny! Thats Hillarious!
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Classics, all of them. I have been watching the Spaced series four times in the past year and it is amazing how well it holds up on repeating viewings! Shaun of the Dead was my intro in these fine people's minds and Hot Fuzz a great spoof/hommage to the Hollywood cop buddy movie. I cannot wait for this one. Bring me this movie (and a Cornetto while you're at it).
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Only if it's called 'Mind The Oranges, Marlon'.
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In fact, I just re-read all my D.R. & Quinch back issues on Sunday and laughed my ass off in the process!
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'three flavours corneto' trilogy? Because that's the only term I've heard them use.
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...we're here. We're hoping that Edgar & Simon will call upon our services for the final part of the Cornetto Trilogy. We'd crawl across a pit of flaming glass for those guys!
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...but I thought the first half (maybe 2-thirds?) of Hot Fuzz was a big improvement. It fell apart when they went into the full-on action movie stuff, though. Fact is, Pegg/Stevenson are an infinitely superior writing team to Pegg/Wright. We wuz robbed of the movies the Spaced configuration would've made.
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Opinion, even.
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Bring in Paddy Considine again for this!!!
He just plain rules, and he OWNED Hot Fuzz!!
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Shaun of the Dead was a bag of shite. I had to watch the last 3rd of the film on picture search such was my lack of attention to this sack of crapness. One of the most overated and disappointing films I have ever seen. I don't think I could ever bother with another of their seaming turd piles of movies !!
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... what about Ant Man? I had hopes Pegg would star in it
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