Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “‘The World’s End’ Interview: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright”.
Now guys thanks so much for joining us um all right. Let’S talk word story: how do you guys meet Wow which one which origin story do you want? I was hanging around in a lab and I was bitten by a radioactive Edgar. Yes, how did you come home? We met in the gamma ray blast. You tell the story, you you, you were formerly a scientist called like Richard Renner yeah. It’S got ta, be it’s gon na, be to like the same letter and acknowledging Rena caught in a blast of gamma radiation in dilemna cross. He was pinched by a radioactive peg became friends right yeah.
I was hanging up some washing and I picked up a ready. I tooth take and I came out – I fell out your bomb. How did you three work start working together? Was it space? Did you guys work before that? These guys? Aren’T you guys intention for 20 years yeah we made a lot of really rubbish. Little films to go, didn’t we we did, we met because Nick was a waiter. I wasn’t and we I met through my girlfriend was working with Nick and it said, there’s a very funny man at work and he wants to have a double with stand up. I was a stand-up comedian at the time, so we hooked up over that not hooked up. No like oh yeah.
It wasn’t like at a sector, was it and and then we just started hanging out, and so when I eventually met Edgar in 96, I mean 80 on the night watch on the Night Watch on the Nights Watch. We we we’ve formed a relationship work together. A little bit and then when it came to for space to happen, which is our sitcom, I suggested that we use this guy. I knew called Nick Frost hello, a very accomplished young actor. Hey America whoo, I felt – could bring something special to the television program. So you guys you guys it’s.
Basically, I was the big impact. It seems to be even bigger now than it has been in a while. Is this something you guys do you guys been asked about this special star, the role baby? Try me, I think it’s because it just keeps doing the rounds. I think the latest thing is it’s been on Netflix, so I think a lot of people in this country who had previously seen it are just watching it, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving. I think the thing is that you know: we’ve always really wanted to appeal to people in such a way that you know they absolutely love it rather than just think is pretty good I’d much rather one person go. That is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life than a million people say bring in so yeah.
Let’S talk that the children, as it’s now known as the trilogy. What I love about the films is that there’s a human story, that the drama itself is not the reason but kind of the conduit to tell the scenes yeah when you were writing these and developing stories. What came first was the genre or the story you want to tell in the case of showing the dead. It was the genre first and but then our take on it. We thought we want to make a zombie film, but then for a while, we didn’t know exactly what that would be. And then the idea came about about making a film with in Georgia, Merida universe, where we could insert people like us specifically Brits with no guns and no access to guns and with a hangover and – and that was that was the idea. And that kind of then blossomed into something which then became like the idea of like oh, maybe it’s a romantic comedy which just happens to have zombies in it in Hot Fuzz. The central idea was, like contrast, the British police with like American movies, but then in this one I think actually, the the the story and the genre went hand in hand because the sci-fi invasion aspect of it is an amplification of a feeling.
It’S like when you go back home, you feel alienated pun intended from your hometown, and so it was a natural extension of that. So I think, with this one actually was the genre was very organic. I think some people assume that when you write the first half an hour of the movie and then pick the genre have a hat when you guys like get together and talk. I know you’ve mentioned the word discipline a lot of these interviews.
When you do you talk about the writing process and what is it like? Safe word is wasabi that disciplinary? Just oh sorry, yes, and not the DNP DSM, but no anyway, I see oh, is that what it is? No, it’s! Oh, it’s your safe word, no you’re safe where this gladder, which i think is very concise. I footage that hurts my when you go to the worst. Safeword of all time would be harder. It’S like! No, that’s a bad safe word! Don’T do that! No one! What’S happening, is I’m fine? Oh yeah Sinclair just start over list.
No, when you guys start doing the new, I do the writing process like what what is that like when you guys get in a room and like start working out these ideas together? Well, it was in the case of this one me and Simon actually had the idea when we were doing the Presto for Hot Fuzz six years ago, and we had the idea pretty fully formed like it was always going to be. Could the worlds end, the world end was always going to be the last bar and it was about like a pub crawl, which literally all pub crawls are like exercise and self-destruction. And so it’s the idea of like do a film that sort of about um again, but really it’s about one man’s self-destruction, and so we had this idea. It was always gon na be about returning home. It was always gon na be about like some kind of quiet invasion, but then we sort of sat on it because part of it was that we we wanted to go off and do separate movies and come back and also, I think we needed to get older To write the script, so it’s got slightly different concerns because, like six years later, these guys are husbands and fathers and 24 and I’ve just turned 24 and the safe word is were serving. You know. These are things I’ve learned in the last 60s, not only we did. We definitely couldn’t have written this film six years ago, when Nick and I have turned 40 now at goose edge in it.
And you know it’s very much about being this age and looking back to a time when you were younger and more sort of or seemingly more vibrant or you know for Gary King, my character in the movie, it’s like he. He could only exist in that time because that was the last time he was kind of happy, so the film kind of deals with nostalgia and as an incredibly nostalgic soundtrack, which Edgar and I you know we had this playlist of about 200 tracks. We listen to during our writing process. So the worlds in you know it’s.
It was a bigger budget, Hot Fuzz, but relatively small, like most films, yeah Scott Pilgrim. Definitely star trek-like was adventure. Ah no you come on. It was an artistic choice at a budget decision.
Early, I think it’s because it’s a British movie, I think that’s the thing is this or because the British movie, the British, cast, if you’re trying to get more money, that’s when you have to cast an American in the film, so it’s like, so you know to Kind of maintain its um because those sell yeah it’s so you have Scotty and double-bagging stuff yeah. But there’s still a thing is it’s like it’s a it’s a British movie so that there’s a limit of how much it can cost. So I think this is like the the biggest we could ever get with a film like this. So, but that’s good, you know, like I mean I am absolutely I’m actually not just happy with the movie, but in terms of the visuals actually exceeded what I thought we could do with the money which is, which is great.
So I was very very pleased how it looks and there’s no in fact, star trek into darkness cost five million dollars to make and UK. So it’s all up on the screens on the screen is above the lines very low. Last question: do we have our on borrowed time here um? I was doing what happened this. Do you guys do know? This is a cancer thing oh come on.
I just hope we live long enough to see the end of Breaking Bad after that he might else. He’S a ghost is it you guys know. It’S obviously gone very well on UK international ready because we’re about to open the u.s. does success in the u.s.
matter to you guys. Is that something you absolutely and they’re not worried about? Just like we, you know we’re very proud of the movie, it’s a British movie, so the fact that it gets a wide release in the u k. — us is like amazing for us, because it’s like when we do Q .