During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have revealed that they briefly considered a sequel to their 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, with Pegg pitching an idea entitled From Dusk Till Shaun, which would have swapped out zombies in favour of vampires.
“I jokingly wrote a treatment for From Dusk Till Shaun, which was a sequel to Shaun of the Dead,” said Pegg. “It was all about Shaun and Ed having to go up to Edinburgh, or something. I don’t know. It was ridiculous. And it was a joke. It wasn’t like a serious pitch. Edgar thought it would be funny to do the film again, but with vampires. But it was all just pub talk.”
Wright went on to add that: “There was a brief idea we had, that we entertained for all of like 72 hours, where I thought you could do an alternate reality sequel. It basically starts with the same movie but then it becomes not about zombies. But these films, they take three years. So, it’s like, if you’re doing another movie, let’s do something completely different.”
As for whether we might see the Cornetto trio of Pegg, Wright and Nick Frost reuniting for another film, Wright stated that: “If we did something else, I think it would be something new, that’s not part of the existing kind of trilogy. It’s really about writing something that we want to do, rather than it seeming like we ought to do something, do you know what I mean? The three movies we made all come from different points of passion. It’s finding what that is and again chaining ourselves to the office to write it. [Laughs] But I would like to work with them again, of course. They’re best friends as well as collaborators.”
What do you make of From Dusk Till Shaun? Is it something you’d like to have seen, or would you prefer something entirely new? Let us know in the comments below…
Originally published October 29, 2017. Updated October 30, 2017.
