Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright invites his drinking buddies to premiere

The director of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's apocalyptic comedy has asked the pub crawl mates who inspired the film to attend its London premiere.

The World's End - first look review

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost bring their trilogy of comedies celebrating British eccentricity to a funny and satisfying conclusion.

The World's End, review

The World's End is a fitting climax to the trilogy Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg started nine years ago.

They battled zombies in Shaun of the Dead and fought renegade little Englanders in Hot Fuzz. Now, with their latest film, The World's End, the final instalment in their comic Cornetto Trilogy (so called because the ice creams turn up in each of the films), stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright are facing their toughest challenge yet. We're not going to give much away beyond saying that the film combines the best aspects of the first two movies - the goofy humour, the knockabout violence, the witty observations on English life - and adds a hefty dollop of sci-fi action and an unexpectedly charming, thoughtful air of bittersweet nostalgia.

The World's End Review

Edgar Wright's feverish direction keeps the energy level high, but the script slows to a painful crawl at a crucial stage late in the game, and struggles with the narrative gymnastics required to keep the group from heading for the hills the moment they discover Newton Haven's dark secret.

Simon Pegg talks about The World's End

He discussed the soundtrack that he and Wright have put together for the film, how his writing process with Edgar Wright on The World's End compared to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuz, bringing every actor that appeared in the previous two films back for The World's End, the possibility of a Comic-Con screening, and more.

Following up a cult comedy hit like Shaun Of The Dead was a tough call but co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright triumph here. Part two in their 'Cornetto trilogy' (Part three, The World's End, is out in August) casts Pegg as an eager-beaver cop whose over-achievement makes him unpopular with colleagues. Shipped off to a sleepy backwater and teamed with a laid-back bozo (Frost), he is surprised to find village life isn't as innocent as it first seems.

A comedy that gets funnier every time you rewatch it, this brilliantly parodies Hollywood studio action buddy-movies such as Bad Boys. We love that its sole raison d' être was allowing Pegg and Frost to live their movie dream of getting to shoot guns in both hands while leaping in slow motion.

The World's End: Edgar Wright interview

The World's End - the third and final part of Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost's genre-skewing trilogy that kicked off with Shaun of the Dead and continued with Hot Fuzz - is set to hit screens in the UK this August.

Edgar Wright's The World's End begins

Working Title Films and Big Talk Productions have commenced filming on The World's End, the third installment of Edgar Wright's trilogy of comedies.

Simon Pegg interview

It's our pleasure to bring you our interview with Geek favourite and A Fantastic Fear Of Everything star Simon Pegg, who talks here about Edgar Wright, Hollywood and British films, and much more...