Friday 14 April 2006

Friday 14 April 2006
Director: Edgar Wright (TV's Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead)

HOT FUZZ

For anyone who enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead, you'll be pleased to hear that the same team have just started work on Hot Fuzz, about a successful London cop (Nicholas Angel) who is seconded to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford, which is not quite as idyllic as it first appears...

Once again Edgar Wright will direct, with Simon Pegg starring as Angel. Nick Frost (Shaun's Ed) will co-star, alongside British thesps Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton and Martin Freeman (The Office).

Even better, the production has its own video blogs, available here. Personally, I'm not particularly won over by the premise of Hot Fuzz, but have faith in the geeky delights of the team behind Spaced. Not sure if Hot Fuzz will have quite the appeal in foreign territories, compared to zombie black-comedy Shaun Of The Dead. But we'll see...