Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have made several cult and popular films with their Cornetto Trilogy, made up of the comedies and genre spoofs Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End. While Wright has gone on to direct several more films since their conclusion of their ‘trilogy’, the duo and Nick Frost, the other lead of those films, have never worked together again. That may just change now as Pegg revealed he and Wright have been developing a new original idea for a film that will be separate from the Cornetto Trilogy.
In an interview with Discussing Film for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Pegg revealed that for the last year he and Wright have been discussing a new film, explaining their desire to make something original that will not act as a sequel to any of the films in the Cortnetto Trilogy or continuing their themes.
“We’ve always done original ideas, even though we’ve kind of built them around existing genres or whatever. Edgar and I are always talking about what we’re going to do next. Neither of us can believe it’s been 10 years since The World’s End. But because our careers have obviously changed and we’re not just sitting around writing zombie films like we used to, the real problem now is about syncing our diaries up at a time when we can both sit down and write a film. And then obviously shoot it. I’ll say this, it’s not about if but when we will do something, which we will do because we’ve already started talking about it.
Edgar came over to my house last year and we started kicking ideas around. It’s not going to be another sort of Cornetto film in that those movies were specifically genre riffs, which addressed the idea of the collective versus the individual. There are certain kinds of thematic consistencies between those three movies which make them a trilogy – it’s not just the ice cream, it’s a series of connecting thematic details. With what do next, we want to be completely different from that. We don’t want to do a take on action movies or a take on sci-fi or a take on horror. We want to make a movie that is totally its own thing, existing outside of the Cornetto trilogy. My desire, really, is to do something super different.”
We’ll have to wait for more information as Pegg and Wright continue to develop their ideas and line up their schedules. It will likely be a while as not only is the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike is still ongoing with no end in sight as the studios refuse to restart negotiations, but Pegg still has Dead Reckoning Part Two to complete and Wright is currently in development on two films along with Scott Pilgrim: The Anime.
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Originally published August 3, 2023. Updated August 4, 2023.
