No time for quick puns or jokes here, just a quick sitdown to share news of a project that movie nerds everywhere have been rabid over for years – Deadline Dorset reveals that the long-anticipated third film in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s Cornetto Trilogy not only has a plot in place, but it also has a planned start date. That’s like, this year.
The outlet reports that Working Title and Wright “have set a September start date for The World’s End,” which will serve as the final film of the trilogy that also includes Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz. As with the first two films, Wright will direct from a script that he’s penned with Pegg. Pegg will again star alongside Nick Frost in the film which, while total no-duh news, is so exciting to see in print that it’s a bit dizzying. The current plan is for the film to hit theaters in spring of next year, which is thrilling enough to make fans go a bit cross-eyed. Universal Pictures has not green lit the film just yet, but is “expected” to (again, duh).
So what exactly is The World’s End going to be about? We’ve known that Wright and Pegg completed their script last month, but details have been scarce on its actual content. But no longer!
Deadline reports that the plot of The World’s End is as follows: “20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.”
Let’s see – pals, a pub, and a classic movie struggle wrapped up in Cornetto-flavored package? Sounds about right.
The boys have been working on the film for years, with first reports emerging in 2008 that the film would round out Wright and Pegg’s “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy” (also known as the “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy”). Since then, fans of the pair have been eagerly anticipating its production, joining Wright’s long-teased Ant-Man as two of Hollywood’s most tantalizing films yet to be made. We can’t wait.
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