Do not Anticipate a ‘Shaun of the Useless’ Sequel, Says Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead had its twentieth birthday final 12 months, and when you’re somebody pondering it ought to have a followup, your hopes should stay simply that.

Whereas doing promo for his upcoming movie The Working Man, Polygon requested the British filmmaker if he’d ever thought of a second movie. He politely declined the notion, explaining that he and longtime inventive associate Simon Pegg don’t really feel like there’s any fuel within the tank for extra Shaun adventures. In his eyes, lots of sequels “don’t actually earn their preserve as a result of all of the story has been informed within the first film. […] Shaun goes from being a type of unhappy sack to being a hero by the tip of the film. So it’s very tough to begin the following film when there’s no apparent arc.”

Wright’s filmography exhibits he’s not likely a sequel man to start with—the closest factor could be his Cornetto trilogy, or debatably Scott Pilgrim Takes Off—however the zombie style’s been no stranger to continuations. The Strolling Useless’s had multiple spinoffs and sequel collection through the years, and Zombieland, a film typically in comparison with Shaun of the Useless, turned a mini-franchise with a TV spinoff and sequel movie again in 2019. It’s additionally not like we haven’t turn out to be used to decades-later sequels showing out of the blue, a lot of them from Disney as of late.

So far as Shaun’s involved, Wright stated he’s “not not too long ago” been approached with doing a sequel, which he’s simply wonderful with. Pegg’s equally content with leaving Shaun behind, saying in Could the movie must be left alone fully, additionally quashing any concepts of a reboot. To him, Shaun’s arc wrapped neatly on the movie’s finish, and a second “can find yourself spoiling the unique, as a result of if you watch the unique once more, you’re pondering, ‘Effectively they’re gonna undergo this different factor.’ The decision stops having any which means.”

That being stated, Pegg and Wright beforehand pitched joke sequels the place the characters combat vampires up in Edinborough or do one thing fully completely different in an alternate universe. Enjoyable thought workout routines, however the two are clearly wonderful leaving these concepts of their heads.

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