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The World's End is a 2013 science fiction comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg.It is the third and final film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, after Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).
The third installment is The World's End, a 2013 science fiction apocalyptic comedy. The film follows a group of friends, led by Pegg, reattempting an epic pub crawl of their youth and discovering an alien occupation of their home town. In the final scene of the film, a Cornetto wrapper blows past in a breeze, briefly catching on a wire fence.
Simon John Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham [1] [2] on 14 February 1970 [3] in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, [4] [5] the son of Gillian Rosemary (née Smith), a former civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. [6]
Wright recalled that in his early days, he used to discover the songs in chart lists in NME, UK Top 40 and The Chart Show to listen to the indie rock numbers. He recalled that a number of songs in the film "struck hard" during their adolescence, while some of the tracks are remembered: "Loaded" by Primal Scream, "I'm Free" by the Soup Dragons, "Step On" by the Happy Mondays, while the rest ...
Simon Pegg has played Benji Dunn, Ethan Hunt's sidekick, since 2006's Mission Impossible III. Now in Dead Reckoning Part One, he discusses the whole series.
It is the first film in Wright and Pegg's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, followed by Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World's End (2013). Shaun of the Dead was inspired by ideas Pegg and Wright used for their 1999-2001 television sitcom Spaced , particularly an episode in which Pegg's character hallucinates a zombie invasion.
This isn't recency bias talking: The 21st century has given us some pretty great horror films.. Sure, the last millennium was rather awesome, too, with the Universal monsters (Dracula ...
Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He came to public prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the sitcom Spaced, directed by Edgar Wright. He went on to co-write and star in the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013).