Star of Ready Player One, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the Star Trek series, Simon Pegg is officially set to dip his toe in directorial waters. Put simply, he's going to be a director.

Speaking to Empire, the 48-year-old confirmed the news and revealed that his latest project will probably start filming later this year.

He said: "My directorial debut will hopefully be shooting by the end of this year. Nira Park sent me a script last year and said, 'This might be your first film.' I read it and said, 'I think you might be right.' Sure enough, that's what we're gearing up to do in November."

Directing our thoughts over to Boogie Nights territory, the actor then joked: "It's a porno."

Whatever the unspecified project turns out to be, we'll be peggin' it to the cinema to see what he's come up with (see what we did there?)

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At the turn of the year, Pegg confirmed that he and longterm collaborator Nick Frost were developing a new TV show, titled Truth Seekers.

"Each episode is going to be an adventure, a potential haunting or something," he said. "It'll start as a very parochial idea, a very small business venture for these people, but it will expand as the series goes on to be something far more global."

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He continued: "It's a language everyone understands, the mystery of the unknown.

"Shaun of the Dead was a very parochial story set in North London and somehow it managed to get this global reach because everyone understands the language of zombie movies."

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