Ain’t It Cool News had an interview with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and in it, the subject of their final film in the Blood and Ice Cream / Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, provisionally titled The World’s End, came up.
According to Pegg, he and Wright will be starting work on writing the final film very soon, and he hopes to get a first draft done before filming starts on the sequel to 2009’s Star Trek.
The collaboration of Pegg, Frost, and Wright has given British film and TV some of its best and funniest work in recent years, and fans will be pleased to know that work is set to start soon on the final film in the trilogy, following up 2004’s Shaun of the Dead and 2007’s Hot Fuzz.
In the interview, Pegg said of the expectation that will inherently be attached to the project:
“I hope we sort of confound it in a way. 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.”
When asked exactly how soon he hopes to begin writing, he responded,
“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 we might get a chance to bang out a first draft if we’re lucky.”
The three of them have worked together since 1999 when they made the immensely entertaining TV show Spaced, which Pegg co-wrote with Jessica Hynes (who was also in Shaun of the Dead), and Wright directed.
Wright most recently directed last year’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, which somewhat surprisingly didn’t do very well at the box office, despite being very popular among critics and fans alike. He’s since worked as a co-writer on the upcoming The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn, which Pegg and Frost both star in.
We could be a year or two from getting to see their final film in the trilogy, but we all know that it will be well worth the wait, especially with Pegg and Wright’s determination to re-invent the wheel on their last outing. You just know it’s going to be something special.
