Pegg's follow-up to Shaun of the Dead is a go
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Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the men behind 2004's surprise hit Shaun of the Dead, recently told Empire Online that their second feature has been officially greenlit by Working Title. The film - Hot Fuzz - is a comedy that "will star Pegg and Nick Frost [Shaun's Shaun and Ed] as two mismatched cops who team up in a West Country backwater."Pegg and Wright have been working on the film all year, and report that the script is much more complex than the one they wrote for their first film. Weirdly, they claim that their writing has been heavily influence by a joint OD on Shane Black, with whose "sass" Pegg says the two are currently enamored. In fact, he describes Hot Fuzz as being "like a British Shane Black movie." Well, ok. But what's wrong with just another Pegg-Wright flick? Based on the first one, people seem to like those sort of a lot.
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12-15-2005 @ 10:02AM
Christopher Campbell said...
Just because Hot Fuzz will be heavily influenced by Black, doesn't mean it won't have the same feel as Shaun of the Dead. With the first film they were on a heavy OD of Romero. If they can do for buddy cop movies what they've done for zombie movies, I expect another brilliant comedy.
And more complex than Shaun of the Dead? That movie has so many levels, when you really think about it, that Hot Fuzz must be a real brain teaser.
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12-15-2005 @ 5:31PM
The Jeremy said...
Pegg was great as "The Editor" in the Doctor Who episode entitled *The Long Game* this past season.
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