Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in 2004’s “Shaun of the Dead. In addition to sipping tea and patiently waiting, folks have found a number of other ways to entertain themselves in quarantine, including listening to hot pianists from their balconies and singing out their windows. “Go to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this all to blow over,” reads a board next to one woman, who appears to be enjoying a beer in lockdown. Love from Simon and Nick.”įans are here for the advice - some responded with photos showing they had already created placards of one of the film’s famous quotes, to have near them in quarantine. Don’t be selfish, look after each other, give someone a call if you think they might be lonely,” Pegg tells Frost over the phone, after warning him not to go to the local pub.įrost then informs Pegg he’s running out of toilet paper - and the camera pans to show Pegg has been hoarding it. “If you can, stay at home, have a cup of tea, and wait for all this to blow over. Mixing glorious pastiche and gory ghost story, director Edgar. 4 after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. “Hey, so what’s the plan?” asks Frost in a telephone call. This review of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho was published on Sept. Once Nighy is dead, they plan to save Shaun’s mother - and then enjoy some tea and wait for the pandemic to pass. In “The Plan,” which has already racked up over 1.3 million views as of Friday morning, the pair recreate a famous scene where they discuss murdering Shaun’s stepfather (Bill Nighy), who has become infected. These zombie-film actors have some advice for real-world residents: Keep calm and stay at home.Īctors Simon Pegg, 50, and Nick Frost, 47, released a public service announcement on YouTube Thursday in the form of a remade scene from their 2004 Edgar Wright-directed apocalypse parody, “Shaun of the Dead.” 'Malicious' portrait of a shooter and other commentaryīiden plainly wants the border crisis to keep getting worse (Wright’s only other feature at that time was the Western parody A Fistful of Fingers.) In several other interviews, both Wright and Pegg have revealed that this spirit of pessimism was a sentiment shared broadly among other crew members as well.New US hospitals face fiscal crisis over COVID-19 relief moneyĪfter being swindled and fooled, will we learn from our COVID failures? Romero classic, directed by a filmmaker who was not yet a household name.
Shaun was a scrappily budgeted zombie movie with a title parodying a George A. In retrospect, it’s easy to see where that attitude came from. Its genius lies in balancing genuine scares and a palpable sense of dread, punctuated by sprinklings of lighthearted humor. In a 2013 interview, Wright recalled a particularly discouraging moment in which an extra playing a zombie mistook the director for a crew member, looked over at him, and declared, “Whew- straight to video for this one.” What I love about Shaun of the Dead is that it's solidly in the zombie movie genre, complete with the right amount of blood and gore and terrifying mindless masses of the undead. Put together for roughly $6 million, Shaun of the Dead intrigued critics and scared up $30 million at the box office upon its release, propelling Wright’s film career and becoming a cult classic in the process.īut things weren’t always shaping up that way on set. Shaun of the Dead stars Simon Pegg as Shaun, a boring man with a dead-end job and repetitive lifestyle which includes nightly trips to the bar with his fiance, Liz (Kate Ashfield. In the film, Pegg plays the titular Shaun, a slacker who leads his girlfriend and dysfunctional band of friends after London is taken over by a zombie outbreak. It was the first feature collaboration between director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg (who also co-wrote Shaun) and Nick Frost, who had previously worked together on the Britcom Spaced.
The title character is Shaun (a sheep previously featured in the 1995 short film A Close Shave and the Shopper 13 short film from the 2002 Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions series).
On April 9, 2004, an improbable zombie-meets-romantic comedy called Shaun of the Dead debuted in theaters. Shaun the Sheep is a British stop-motion children's television series and a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise.