While the idea of seeing your favorite characters from beloved comedies return is great on paper, as we learned from “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” and “Zoolander 2,” the results don’t always pan out. That should be kept in mind as discussion once again swirls around a possible reteam of director Edgar Wright, and his pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, for a sequel to 2007’s “Hot Fuzz.” But don’t get too excited as Wright expresses some very keen reservations about going down that road.
“I’ve definitely had some ideas and me and Simon have even talked about it at points, but it’s that thing of, do I want to spend three years of my life doing that? Or do I wanna, if I have the opportunity to tell a new story, would I do that? If somebody said to me, if ‘Baby Driver 2,’ if that kind of came up, it would be like, ‘I have ideas.’ I would never say never, and you’re not wrong to say that that’s the one that you could do further installments,” he told Movieweb.
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That being said, Wright isn’t certain where the story could go next, or more importantly, if he’d want to put off doing an original project to make a sequel.
“I think the thing with sequels is that I’ve always been looking for what’s next? And the thing with any movie is, it’s going to take up at least two years of your life. Maybe three. So, when you’ve got youth on your side, and I’m already in my forties now, it’s like, I guess I would rather be telling new stories than revisiting old ones,” he explained. ” ‘Hot Fuzz’ I think is the only one of the Cornetto trilogy that you could do a follow-up. The tricky thing with a lot of sequels, and especially comedy sequels, is once characters have finished an arc. You know, in ‘Hot Fuzz’ Danny Butterman especially, Nicholas Angel becomes less of an automaton and becomes more human and Nick Frost’s character becomes less of a simpleton and more of a badass. So then the thing is like, when that’s your starting point for the next one, where do you go from there?”
Frankly, if Wright, Pegg, and Frost were to get back together, I’d rather see them make something new, rather than going down old paths. Thoughts? Let us know below.
Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver” opens on June 28th.
