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Simon Pegg Talks Future Reunion With Edgar Wright; “We’re Circling Something”
While we probably shouldn’t expect to see Shaun of the Dead 2, with Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho) recently commenting that he’d rather focus on making movies he hasn’t already made before, that doesn’t mean an eventual reunion with Simon Pegg is out of the question. Wright and Pegg became known to American audiences through Shaun of the Dead, the duo subsequently pairing for Hot Fuzz and The World’s End.
It’s now been almost ten years(!) since Pegg delivered a career-best performance in Wright’s The World’s End, and fans are hungry for a reunion. So… should we be expecting one?
Pegg tells ComicBook.com, “With Edgar and I, we have to just get our schedules in order so that we can write together again. We’re talking about stuff, there’s been ideas thrown around and we’re circling something. But obviously he’s really busy, I’m really busy.”
“It’s not like the old days when we were just trying to get seen and we had all that time,” Pegg continues. “Now things are a little more complicated. But there’s room in my heart for all that stuff and I obviously want to work Edgar and Nick [Frost] again because they’re my mates and it means we get to hang out more.”
Nick Frost was of course Pegg’s co-star in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, and the lovable duo most recently worked together on Amazon’s “Truth Seekers.”
That series, alas, was cancelled by Amazon after just one season.
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.