During a promotional interview with MovieWeb for his upcoming film Baby Driver, director Edgar Wright was asked about the possibility of a sequel to 2007’s Hot Fuzz, the middle chapter of his Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, and while the filmmaker said he does have some ideas for a possible follow-up, he’s unsure if it will ever become a reality.
“I’ve definitely had some ideas and me and Simon have even talked about it at points, but it’s that thing of, do I want to spend three years of my life doing that?” said Wright. “Or do I wanna, if I have the opportunity to tell a new story, would I do that? If somebody said to me, if Baby Driver 2, if that kind of came up, it would be like, ‘I have ideas.’ I would never say never, and you’re not wrong to say that that’s the one that you could do further installments. I think the thing with sequels is that I’ve always been looking for what’s next? And the thing with any movie is, it’s going to take up at least two years of your life. Maybe three. So, when you’ve got youth on your side, and I’m already in my forties now, it’s like, I guess I would rather be telling new stories than revisiting old ones.”
“Hot Fuzz I think is the only one of the Cornetto trilogy that you could do a follow-up. The tricky thing with a lot of sequels, and especially comedy sequels, is once characters have finished an arc. You know, in Hot Fuzz Danny Butterman especially, Nicholas Angel becomes less of an automaton and becomes more human and Nick Frost’s character becomes less of a simpleton and more of a badass. So then the thing is like, when that’s your starting point for the next one, where do you go from there?””
Would you like to see a sequel to Hot Fuzz, or would you prefer Wright to focus on original projects? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and be sure to check out his new film Baby Driver when it opens on June 28th…
Originally published June 11, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
