Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright at Glastonbury 2024: why there wasn’t a ‘Shaun of the Dead 2’

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00:00Hello, you're watching NME, I'm Jordan Bassett, and we're here with some top-tier film talent,

00:10the top, it's Simon Peganek, alright?

00:13Hello!

00:14Oh, hello!

00:15So I heard that you guys have been approached over the years to sequelize films from the

00:21Conetto trilogy.

00:22What sort of approaches have been made?

00:26Just constant badgering.

00:28No, it was more the fact that we did Hot Fuzz instead of doing a Shaun of the Dead 2.

00:32We immediately kind of like, we didn't want to do a sequel to the film, we wanted to do

00:37something else.

00:38And I think that was basically how we continued on with it.

00:41So I don't think at a certain point, there's definitely been suggestions of spinoffs, but

00:47I mean, I feel like we just wanted to tell different stories and do things in the same

00:53tone, so we do tonal sequels or things that, you know, the Conetti trilogy isn't really

01:00a trilogy.

01:01What?

01:02The Cannoli trilogy?

01:03The Cannoli trilogy.

01:04That's the next one we're going to do.

01:05Did I say it weird?

01:06Cornetto.

01:07You said Cornotti.

01:08Cornotti.

01:09Yeah, it's a trilogy of tone, really, isn't it?

01:11Yeah, I mean, that's why it is the Cornetto trilogy, so-called, is because each of those

01:17films is a sequel of the other, you know?

01:21I feel like with all of those films, it's a story, it has a beginning, a middle, and

01:25an end.

01:26And I'm fine, you know, there are some of my favourite films are sequels, and I think

01:29sequels are an important part of filmmaking, but some films just don't need to be furthered.

01:37And I think sometimes people just want to see the same thing again, and it's a kind

01:40of a sense of, it's better to challenge people and give them something they don't necessarily

01:46want than it is to just give them what they want, because that's kind of boring.

01:51For Sean, particularly, Sean is a story which has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and

01:56there's nothing to do afterwards, there's no more story to tell after that.