With the duo poised to reprise their Shaun of the Dead roles for an animated TV special, Pegg confirms plans for another trilogy

Simon Pegg is making a new film with long-term collaborator Edgar Wright, and could be set to film a whole new trilogy with the British film-maker, the actor has revealed.



Pegg and Wright are best known in the UK for the “Three Cornettos trilogy”, comprising 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, 2007’s Hot Fuzz and last year’s The World’s End. It had been assumed the pair, along with Nick Frost, were moving on to pastures new. However, Pegg told Edith Bowman on BBC 6 Music radio that more movies were now in the works.



“It will happen. We made three films in 10 years and hopefully in the next decade we’ll make another three,” he said, adding that the first instalment “has a title and everything”.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The way they were … Wright, Pegg and Frost pick up a prize for Hot Fuzz in 2007. Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features

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.”

It was unclear whether Frost, who also worked with Pegg and Wright on the cult 90s TV comedy Spaced, would also be taking part. There were no further details about the proposed new trilogy of films.

In related news, Pegg revealed on Twitter that he and Frost will be reprising their roles from Shaun of the Dead for the first time in a decade in an animated special.





Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) Here’s news, @nickjfrost and myself will be once again stepping into Shaun and Ed’s shoes for the #PhineasAndFerb Halloween special. W00t!!

Pegg will next be seen on the big screen in the Monty Python comedy Absolutely Anything, and will also return in the next instalments of the Mission: Impossible and Star Trek series. Wright recently quit comic book movie Ant-Man after disagreements with Disney-owned studio Marvel, but has the crime-themed action film Baby Driver and the young adult adaptation Grasshopper Jungle on his current slate of potential next projects.

