In a feature with EW, Simon Pegg has revealed that production for the third installment of the genre-bending Blood and Ice Cream trilogy hopes to begin this fall (though they do say, “reteam in the fall” which is vague).
The trilogy, which is the collaborative work of Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost, has already seen the zom-rom-com (zombie-romantic-comedy) “Shaun Of The Dead” and the cop-action-comedy “Hot Fuzz.” The next installment is tentatively titled “The World’s End” and, although Pegg neglected to reveal anything about the film’s plot, he did describe the overall arc of the trilogy: “If ‘Shaun of the Dead’ was about leaving your ’30s and taking responsibility and ‘Hot Fuzz’ was about being a man, then the next one will be about being an old man. Being fucking 40, which I am approaching. Edgar isn’t, the little bastard.”
But isn’t fall more than a little over-ambitious? Wright is currently filming “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” (principal photography starts tomorrow) Pegg and Frost are preparing for their next collaboration, “Paul,” which is being helmed by Greg Mottola. Wouldn’t Wright be knee-deep in ‘Pilgrim’ editing by then? Seems dubious. Maybe he means reconvene to start hashing out ideas and perhaps begin working on a script?
Note, for those possibly getting tired of the Pegg/Frost collab, Mottola’s “Paul” will switch things up and go role reversal: this time Pegg will take the sidekick role that Frost typically portrays in the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy. “Paul” was recently greenlit and hopes to shoot this summer in New Mexico.