Edgar Wright’s Explanation for Never Wanting to Make Shaun of the Dead 2 Makes Perfect Sense

Should determination beryllium a Shaun of the Dead 2? Not now, not ever, manager Edgar Wright has insisted — and his mentation for wherefore helium has specified a hard enactment connected it makes cleanable sense.

2004’s Shaun of the Dead, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is considered by galore fans to beryllium the cleanable zombie drama film. It sees Pegg’s washed up Shaun spell from zero to leader arsenic a zombie apocalypse explodes astir him and his friends successful the Crouch End country of London. Many of its lines are often repeated by fans online ("Let's spell to the Winchester, person a bully acold pint, and hold for this each to stroke over”), and it spawned Wright and Pegg's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, which includes 2007’s Hot Fuzz and 2013’s The World's End.

Over the years (21!), fans person wondered whether Wright and Pegg would instrumentality to Shaun of the Dead for a sequel. While Pegg has made wide his feelings that a sequel oregon reboot should ne'er happen, present Wright has added his thoughts.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, helium told Polygon he’ll ne'er instrumentality to marque Shaun of the Dead 2. Why? Because the characters spell done their journeys successful the archetypal movie, and there’s not truly overmuch near to say.

"We weren't truly funny successful doing it due to the fact that we didn't deliberation determination was immoderate much communicative to tell," Wright said. Apparently helium was asked to marque a sequel aft Shaun of the Dead came retired alternatively of Hot Fuzz, but helium refused.

"There are a batch of franchises wherever the sequels don't truly gain their support due to the fact that each the communicative has been told successful the archetypal movie," Wright added. "When a quality has gone done a monolithic change, it's precise hard to person a 2nd installment. Shaun of the Dead has him going from being a benignant of bittersweet sack to being a leader by the extremity of the movie. So it's precise hard to commencement the adjacent movie erstwhile there's nary evident arc. We are precise blessed with it being a 1 and done."

With immoderate luck, that’s wherever Shaun of the Dead volition stay: arsenic a cleanable movie of its clip that inactive stands up today. No sequel ‘getting the set backmost together,’ and nary remake with ill-judged recasting.

It’s worthy noting astatine this constituent what Pegg has said successful the past astir a imaginable Shaun of the Dead 2. In May, helium said that portion he’s moving retired a task to bash with Wright, it’ll beryllium a surprise. “It’s beauteous to beryllium asked, and the pursuing that movie has is the champion you tin anticipation for arsenic a filmmaker, but ‘Shaun’ is simply a communicative with a beginning, mediate and end, and it’s a communicative that to adhd it it — similar Alien 3 did to Aliens — mightiness extremity up detracting from the original,” Pegg told Variety. “So surely erstwhile Edgar and I marque our adjacent film, we’re gonna truly disappoint everybody.”

In the abbreviated term, Wright has a reboot of his own, though this 1 is an adaptation of a novel: The Running Man.

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