Simon Pegg , Nick Frost , and Edgar Wright gathered in Comic - Con ’s Hall H today to talk about their late film , The World ’s destruction , including how it link thematically to Shaun of the all in and Hot Fuzz and why Pegg ’s fictional character is like a drunken Doctor of the Church .
“ Well , if you ’ve ever ascertain Doctor Who and thought it would be funnier if the Doctor was really hammered , then this is the flick for you , ” Wright gag about The World ’s End , which opens today in England and on August 23rd in North America . “ So why do n’t we just re - title it Doctor Hooch ? ” In the video above , Wright and Pegg both talk about the MD - ish ingredient in their film .
The jury , which was moderated by Chris Hardwick , focused on all three parts of the trio ’s Cornetto trilogy and how it have-to doe with to Pegg and Frost ’s own lifetime . “ I guess when we did Shaun of the Dead , we were closer to those two guys , ” Pegg explained . Speaking to Frost , he add , “ You were more like Ed than you are now and I decidedly was more like Shaun … I could have been Gary [ Pegg ’s character from The World ’s End ] but I managed not to be . ”
“ We want to wrap some thing up , ” Wright said , explain how the film fill in the trio ’s Cornetto Trilogy with Shaun of the all in and Hot Fuzz . “ There ’s this theme of ageless adolescence — the joys and dangers of it — and this film is kind of about that . ”
Hardwick asked if they were tempt not to mention anything about the movie ’s exotic twist . “ We did n’t have any pick , ” Pegg tell . “ plastic film need selling and regrettably that requires you to give things out in ordination to give the audience an theme of what they ’re going to see . Ideally , any film you go to see , you should n’t know anything about it . Then you ’re surprised by every turn and every moment of tension you ’ll experience as the movie maker specify . But it ’s very rarefied that chance these twenty-four hour period . ”
Pegg says that Gary is the persona he ’s most enjoyed playing so far . “ He was a challenge because he is n’t directly likable . He ’s actually passably duplicitous and he ’s a operator . He ’s a jester . It was great play to dally that , ” enjoin Pegg . “ Gary King , I feel like he ’s a very layered grapheme . There ’s a quite a little live on on with Gary , and it ’s probably been my most versatile experience in a movie . ”
Frost depict his eccentric , Andrew Knightley , as an angry man . “ He has an atomic bomb inside of him . Just watching him on screen hold back for him to go off is staggeringly — it give me a nice tone . ” His role is dub the “ Pink Hulk . ”
They were also asked about creating a drinking biz around The World ’s End . The general agreement is that a universe ’s destruction drinking game would most sure as shooting kill a somebody . But the pattern are childlike : every time one of the characters pack a swallow , take a drink .
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