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    Simon Pegg Has a Comedy Reunion with Edgar Wright within the Works — however It’s Not a ‘Shaun of the Lifeless’ Sequel

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    Simon Pegg is shutting down any hope for a “Shaun of the Lifeless” sequel amid its twentieth anniversary. Pegg, who collaborated with author/director Edgar Wright for the “Cornetto Trilogy,” which included “Shaun of the Lifeless,” “Sizzling Fuzz,” and “The World’s Finish,” instructed Selection that he’ll reunite with Wright for one more comedy quickly — simply not inside the “Shaun of the Lifeless” world.

    “It’s pretty to be requested, and the next that movie has is the most effective you may hope for as a filmmaker, however ‘Shaun’ is a narrative with a starting, center and finish, and it’s a narrative that so as to add to it — like ‘Alien 3′ did to Aliens’ — would possibly find yourself detracting from the unique,” Pegg mentioned. “So definitely when Edgar and I make our subsequent movie, we’re going to essentially disappoint all people.”

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    “Shaun of the Lifeless” starred Pegg as one of many sole survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Invoice Nighy and Pegg’s frequent companion Nick Frost co-starred within the 2005 indie horror comedy hit. Pegg assured followers that he’ll work with each Frost and Wright once more quickly, saying, “It’s only a query of when, not if.”

    Wright and Pegg even just lately had been “making an attempt to decide on a primary premise for one thing” within the comedy realm. Pegg added that he “promised” Wright he “wouldn’t make one other comedy earlier than they work collectively.” Pegg beforehand instructed The Guardian in 2023 that whichever challenge Wright and him work on subsequent, there might be no affiliation with their previous movies. “We’re not going to depend on what we’ve completed earlier than,” Pegg mentioned on the time. “I like the concept of pissing folks off.“

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    “Shaun of the Lifeless” catapulted Wright’s directing profession, with auteurs comparable to Quentin Tarantino and John Carpenter applauding the characteristic.

    “I keep in mind turning up for the ‘Shaun of the Lifeless’ premiere on the ArcLight on Sundown and Edgar was sat there with Quentin Tarantino,” Pegg, who’s now selling the ultimate installment of “Mission: Not possible — The Remaining Reckoning,” mentioned to Selection. “There have been numerous cool folks there, and we obtained so many help from Quentin and George Romero and John Carpenter and Stephen King and Peter Jackson … all these guys type of stepped up for us — I feel as a result of they noticed numerous themselves in Edgar.”

    And Pegg is able to return to indies like “Shaun of the Lifeless,” too. “I spent the primary a part of my profession sort of indulging numerous the issues I cherished as a toddler, however ever since I turned a guardian, they’re simply not my precedence,” he mentioned after starring in “Star Trek” and extra franchises. “It simply doesn’t curiosity me anymore.”

    Wright, within the meantime, is revisiting Stephen King’s “The Operating Man” with Glen Powell within the lead. All roads do appear to steer again to Pegg because the “peg” between collaborators: Pegg’s longtime “Mission: Not possible” co-star Tom Cruise is famously Powell’s mentor after the duo labored on “Prime Gun: Maverick” collectively.



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