July 30, 2011

Things the Movie "World's End" Needs to Have

  • Written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
  • Directed by Edgar Wright
  • Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Rafe Spall (Timothy Spall’s son), Simon and Edgar’s family members, have Edgar as a voice actor at some point and preferably have Bill Bailey, Kate Ashfield, Dylan Moran, Peter Serafinowicz, Lucy Davis, Timothy Dalton and Jessica Hynes
  • Produced by Nira Park
  • Cornetto (mint)
  • Taking a “shortcut”
  • Lots of blood
  • A hand injury (like Pete’s in Shaun and Nicholas Angel’s in Fuzz)
  • Twins (like the zombie twins in Shaun and the Bill Bailey twins in Fuzz (who nobody tells nothin’))
  • A 28 Months(?) reference (In Shaun, at the end while filpping through channels you hear the line ”Claims that the virus was caused by rage-infected monkeys have now been dismissed as bull- “, a 28 Days nod. Then in 28 Weeks there is a shot with a swan, a reference to the swan in Hot Fuzz, Elvis)
  • A whole lot of Bromance between Simon and Nick’s characters (fun fact: in an early draft of Fuzz there was a love interest for Nicholas Angel, but she was cut and most of her lines were given to Danny Butterman, unchanged)
  • A monkey of some sort (like Ed’s impression of Clyde and the stuffed animal Angel won in Fuzz)
  • The word exacerbate
  • The line “YEAH _OYEEE!” (Boy in Shaun, Roy in Fuzz)
  • Someone being called “pickle” (an affectionate name Edgar’s mum called him which was also used in Spaced)
  • Simon’s character saying about/to Nick’s, “He’s not my boyfriend! Hey/thanks, babe” (also used in Spaced)
  • A Winchester gun
  • A pub with husband and wife owners, a fruit machine and a sequence where at least one gun is being fired
  • A flower shop where Simon’s character will buy flowers for someone he loves
  • Quick, Edgar Wright style, transition sequences
  • A cleaned up, television version with words like “funk” “clump” and “silt”
  • Clever character names (In Shaun the names rhyme with the character’s ultimate fate and in Fuzz they are almost all occupations or activities)
  • Simon’s character getting dumped
  • On the DVD, an End-o-Meter (or something of that nature)
  • Foreshadowing, references to other movies of that genre and repeating lines
  • An actual photo of one of the actors as a child (In Shaun there was a picture of Simon and Fuzz had a picture of Nick)
  • Nick’s character has to “die” but then return in the final scene
To which Edgar Wright said:

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