Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright on the Shaun of the Dead Sequel that almost was…

So, myself and my son – who is 15 in the next few weeks – have just sat down recently and watched Shaun of the Dead (the rest of the Cornetto trilogy is coming) and it’s hard to put into words just how great that movie is.

Poking fun at the zombie genre while also being a solid zombie movie itself, Shaun of the Dead works on several fronts and is, frankly, superb.

And one thing that would be great is if we’d had a sequel.

And we almost did.

Now, we know Shaun kicked off the so-called Cornetto trilogy but the movies – Hot Fuzz and The World’s End – are not actually connected.

But briefly, star and co-writer Simon Pegg toyed with the notion of a sequel albeit a bit tongue-in-cheek.

“I jokingly wrote a treatment for From Dusk Till Shaun,” Pegg says.

“Which was a sequel to Shaun of the Dead. 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.”

Fun fact, guys, Into the Spider-verse actually had a nod to From Dusk Til Shaun that is fantastic… guess it go made in another reality, huh?

Wright recalls the conversation but also recalls why it never came to be: “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,” says the co-writer/director.

“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.”

Awwwwwwww…

But, will we ever see Pegg and Wright reunite with co-star Nick Frost because there’s no denying that these three together are a slice of fried gold.

“I actually was texting with Simon today, in fact,” says Wright.

“If we did something else, I think it would be something new, that’s not part of the existing kind of trilogy. It’s really about writing something that we want to do, rather than it seeming like we ought to do something, do you know what I mean? The three movies we made all come from different points of passion. It’s finding what that is and again chaining ourselves to the office to write it. [Laughs] But I would like to work with them again, of course. They’re best friends as well as collaborators.”

Honestly, having these three back together would be as big a deal for me as a new Star Wars movie, so I’ll keep my fingers, toes and anything else that bends crossed for this reunion

Source: EW