We’ve known that the follow up to Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, The World’s End would eventually have to set an official start date. But Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have collectively (or rather, separately) been so busy with other work that it seemed like they might never knuckle down to actually shooting the third scoop in the Blood And Cornetto Trilogy. Well, knuckle down they shall, as Wright and production company Working Title have now set a September start date for the movie.
While Deadline cautions that the green light has yet to flash on the project from the bigwigs at Universal, that’s expected to be formality, with the aim for **World’s End **to see the inside of cinemas in 2013. Huzzah!
We also now know the basic plot, so look away if you’re itching to stay pure on that point. The story finds five childhood friends reuniting after 20 years because one of them – 40-year-old Gary King, who refuses to grow up – is trying to drag his less-than-enthusiastic mates on a recreation of an epic pub crawl in their home town, which culminated at a watering hole called The World’s End. This being a Pegg & Wright joint, of course, there’s much more to it than that, and the five realise that it’s humanity’s future at stake, not just their friendship. Reaching the boozer may just be the least of their worries (shades of Shaun there, eh?)
After tweets about the script, pics of the lads apparently hard at work writing (but mostly lobbing insults at each other), Simon laid a big hint on the world today, see below.
Job after that involves being an author again and the job after THAT will hopefully involve plasma and gelato if you catch my drift. > > — Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) [May 9, 2012](https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status/200259177128542208)
So the early word is given and the anticipation can now reach fever pitch…