Given how beloved the film and characters quickly became, it’s somewhat surprising that a sequel was never made to 2004’s Shaun of the Dead. Instead, Edgar Wright admirably brought more original ideas to life, subsequently directing Hot Fuzz, The World’s End and most recently, Baby Driver.
But there was at least one point in time where Wright and Shaun star Simon Pegg contemplated making a sequel. One of the proposed titles? From Dusk Till Shaun!
In an extensive oral history piece on EW, Pegg teased what could’ve been.
“I jokingly wrote a treatment for From Dusk Till Shaun, which was a sequel to Shaun of the Dead,” Pegg recalled. “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,” he added.
Wright also laid out another potential sequel plan that was discussed.
“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,” Wright told EW. “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.”
At this time, no actual sequel plans seem to be in motion.