Simon Peggis going to make a new movie withEdgar Wright, it’s just a matter of timing. Pegg and his buddy Nick Frost collaborated with Wright on the Cornetto Trilogy, which consists ofShaun of the Dead,Hot FuzzandThe World’s End. The final entry was released in 2013 and virtually ever since, fans have wanted to know when the trio will work together again. Pegg doesn’t know exactly when that will be, but he promises that it’s an eventuality.
The problem is that all three of them have become quite busy in recent years. Simon Pegg has been acting in the newerStar Trekmovies, among many other projects. Nick Frost has been part ofInto The Badlandson AMC while also squeezing in a movie role here and there. Pegg and Frost have also started a production company and arereleasing a new horror comedy togethertitledSlaughterhouse Rulez. Edgar Wright had his biggest success as a director withBaby Driverlast year, with Sony hatching plans for a sequel. Still, Pegg insists in a recent interview that it’s not a matter of if but rather when they will make a new movie together. Here’s what he had to say about it.
“Oh yeah, that’s like a given. The only reason we haven’t is just timing. Me and Edgar and Nick are not colleagues, we’re friends. We go back a long time and we have a relationship that transcends work, but if only to hang with each other for an extended period we’ll make another film again. It’s just with our various commitments we have to find the time to write and make it. Me and Edgar talk about it all the time, and whenever we’re together we start brainstorming and we have certain ideas we want to develop. It’s just a question of ‘when,’ not ‘if.'”
The fact that they’re all friends makes the idea of making a new movie together all the more motivating. They clearly had a great time working together in the past and making a new movie would mean, as Simon Pegg points out, getting to spend a lot of time with one another. While their next project hasn’t yet been determined, Pegg says that it won’t be a continuation of theCornetto Trilogy.
“The next thing we do will be different in terms of the preoccupation. It depends. It won’t be a Three Cornetto film, and that was something that evolved over the course of making those three movies, which were almost loose sequels even though they weren’t narratively connected. You could thematically link them… with ice cream.”
Edgar Wright is currently working on adocumentary about the band Sparks, while Simon Pegg is starring inMission: Impossible - Falloutthis summer and is looking at possibly making his directorial debut soon. Nick Frost hasFighting With My Family,The FestivalandPugwashall in post-production. Not to get anyone’s hopes up, but 2019 looks like it could be relatively free for the trio. Maybe they can cook something up next year? This news comes to us courtesy ofComingSoon.net.
