Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost Begin The Final Chapter in their ‘Blood & Ice Cream’ Trilogy This September

The comedic British trio are back together after years off following 2007’s Hot Fuzz.  Each have gone on to separate adventures over the years after the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – the first two films in the commonly referred to “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy.”  There was no question whether or not director Edgar Wright would team up with the two actors to make the final chapter, but a lot of questions lingered regarding when we were going to see it especially following the buzz around Marvel studios recently and their interest in having Wright adapt Ant-Man.  Not to mention his plan to direct The Night Stalker for Disney.  Thankfully, everyone’s fears can be put to rest as not only a date has been set for the production to begin but a synopsis has been revealed as well.  Wright and Pegg have teased recently that they were working on the final draft of the script but never did I believe it was going to happen this year.  Deadline is reporting that filming starts this September!  The planned film, The World’s End, is scheduled to arrive in theaters in the spring of 2013.  You can read the official synopsis of the film below.

20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.

After Shaun of the Dead ripped apart the zombie/horror genre and Hot Fuzz threw the book at the buddy-cop film genre, The World’s End seems to combine the absurdity of “bro” comedies and road-trip films like The Hangover and Road Trip with the over the top insanity of disaster films.  Obviously, as we have come to expect from all of Wright’s films, it will most likely be an amalgamation of different themes and genres in a way that only the clever Brit can form together.  After reading the synopsis of the film, are you excited to see what the trio will give us in their final chapter in the planned trilogy?