Simon Pegg has confirmed that he and Edgar Wright will be teaming up to film a brand new trilogy, with the “Three Cornettos trilogy” having been wrapped up with the 2013 comedy sci-fi film The World’s End.
Pegg made the surprise announcement that he and Wright are embarking upon a new movie trilogy on BBC 6 Radio Music, telling DJ Edith Bowman that “it will happen”.
Pegg said: “We made three films in 10 years and hopefully in the next decade we’ll make another three,” he said, adding that the first installment “has a title and everything”.
According to the actor and writer, the reasoning behind them branding The World’s End the last installment in the “Cornetto trilogy” was due to being the last film the duo would make that would follow the foundation laid down by Shaun of the Dead. Along with Hot Fuzz, the three films in the original trilogy featured an array of in-jokes and recurring themes (such as the fence-hopping gag) that will not be present in the new trilogy that the pair are currently working on. In fact, it hasn’t even been made clear whether Nick Frost, who assumed the role of supporting actor in all three films in the original trilogy, will be appearing in Pegg and Wright’s next venture.
Pegg continued: “When we said the trilogy was over, it was because that group of films was over. They’re all kind of related with each other and deal with a specific idea. There’s a criteria to those films. The next thing we do won’t do that, it will just be something else.”
Pegg will next appear in Phineas and Ferb’s animated Halloween special, with him and Nick Frost reprising their roles of Shaun and Ed from Shaun of the Dead.
