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Motthus · 02-03-2006, 11:14

This was on Ainitcool.com about Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg (Shaun Of The Dead) new film Hot Fuzz:

"A Working Title production in association with Big Talk Productions, Hot Fuzz is directed by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg.

A comedy about a London cop who is seconded to deepest, darkest Somerset, the film is from an original screenplay by Wright and Pegg. Hot Fuzz will be produced by Nira Park (Shaun of the Dead), Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and the executive producer is Natascha Wharton.

Pegg leads a stellar British cast including Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge), Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights), Steve Coogan (A Cock and Bull Story) and Martin Freeman (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Paddy Considine, Bill Bailey, Olivia Colman, Anne Reid, Rafe Spall, David Bradley, Stewart Wilson, Paul Freeman and Edward Woodward..

Says producer Nira Park, "We're delighted to once again be joining creative forces with Working Title on this very exciting and very British film. Together, we're looking forward to giving the police action genre the same treatment we gave the living dead in 2004."

Police constable, Nicholas Angel is good at his job, so good in fact, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, his superiors at the Met have decided to sweep him under the carpet. So it is that London's top cop March

finds himself in the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost), an oafish but well meaning young Constable, who dreams of being Mel Gibson. Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play, Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems.

The film will start principal photography later on in March"

Lets hope this film is as good as Shaun Of The Dead!

Motthus · 20-04-2006, 15:16

Here is some more news about Hot Fuzz that was on the Empire website:

"Empire’s just come back from a nice chat with Jessica Stevenson and Martin Freeman about their new film Confetti (you can read all that in our Interviews section very soon) and as Martin had just hotfooted it from the set of Hot Fuzz - the latest film from the Shaun Of The Dead gang - it seemed only polite to ask him how it’s all going.

“I’m the first voice you hear in the film,” says Martin. “I’m quite anally retentive, slightly superior to Simon Pegg’s character, and I’m the one who tells him that he’s basically being moved from the Met to the country because he’s so good he’s making the rest of us look bad. But he doesn’t believe me so I get Steve Coogan in. He doesn’t believe Steve Coogan so then we’ve got to get Bill Nighy in and we’re all saying ‘Listen, you’ve got to go mate’ so eventually he goes. Then the hilarity begins.”

Unsurprisingly for fans of Shaun, and Edgar and Simon’s TV show, Spaced, Freeman thinks the story is a goodie. “I think it’s a very funny script and they’ve assembled a cast that is pretty tremendous really – myself excluded,” he says (ease up on the modesty there Martin). “It’ll be amazing, it’s brilliant. It’s got Simon and Edgar’s typical sharp eye and sharp ear. At the read through it was a really great group of people and obviously they all wanted to be there, attracted to the material.”

Seeing as Stevenson played ass-kicking zombie fighter Yvonne in Shaun and co-wrote Spaced with Simon, will she be turning up in Fuzz? “Absolutely not and I’m very annoyed!” she says (laughing, we might add). “It’s very boysy, I don’t think there are any girls, and if there are any girls then I don’t know who they are.” And just for emphasis: “I’m not doing a cameo, I haven’t been asked to do a cameo and maybe even if they did ask me I wouldn’t do it anyway!”

Skivey · 03-06-2006, 18:40

Just finished my shoot for the day, an amazing day finished by an amazing round of applause tothe cast and crew whos last day it was.

A bit surreal being in the same scenes as edward woodward and timothy dalton, but hey... we all get our 15 minutes oneday!

Hail HOT FUZZ, next years british comedy of the last millenium!

Good day!

Skivey!

Motthus · 05-06-2006, 15:25

Lucky you to get to feature in Hot Fuzz!
So when is the offical UK release date for Hot Fuzz?

Motthus · 28-07-2006, 13:08

They showed 4 clips from Hot Fuzz at Comic Con here are the descriptions of those clips from Aintitcool.com:

“Clip 1: Simon Pegg talking to a classroom about why he wanted to be a cop. Nick Frost is sitting with all the kids as Pegg is talking about what it takes to be a police officer... unquestionable moral authority, etc. "Any questions?" Frost looks around, looking for raised hands and then raises his own. Pegg acknowledges him. "Is it true that there is a place on a man's head that if you shoot it, it will blow up?" Then it cuts to the badass totally 80s cheesy cop movie logo of HOT and FUZZ being all ROBOCOP silver. Each word gets hit with a bullet, spinning them around like a carnival target shooting contraption. As they slow to a stop and face us again the voice over, a trailer-guy deep voiced dude, goes, "HOT... FUUUUZZZZZ." I think this was the clip that ended with a barrage of actiony type bits, with Nick cocking a shotgun and Simon jumping sideways through the air in slow motion firing two pistols all John Woo style. They all looked so serious, but I can't help but laugh when I see these guys doing this stuff. Seeing Nick Frost cock a shotgun one handed and go, "This is what I'm talkin' about!" just makes me cackle.
Clip 2: Has Simon and Nick sitting at a pub talking to each other it seems Simon is telling Nick about how he got into being a police officer. "I never remembered a time when I didn't want to be a police officer. It all started with my Uncle Derek. He bought me a police pedal car when I was 5. Every second I was awake I was arresting kids twice my size... for litering, spitting... I got beaten up a lot when I was young. But they couldn't stop me. I wanted to be like Uncle Derek." Nick: "He sounds like a cool bloke." Simon: "Actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students." Nick, without missing a beat: "What a ****." Then logo and voice over guy... "HOT... FUUUUZZZZZ." Nick does an eye gag, after the logo... where he pretends to stab a fork in his eye, spraying out ketchup or whatever the hell it is all over the place, including on Simon. Very funny.
Clip 3: They spot a wigger trying to shoplift. GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY eyes close-up on both Pegg and the shoplifter and the chase begins. He and Nick chase him down the street and he gains. Simon calls out that they're taking a shortcut. Nick, "Through the gardens?" Simon turns towards camera and says, "What's the matter? Never taken a short cut before?" and cockily runs at the first of many low fences. This is a mirror image to the same sequence in SHAUN OF THE DEAD where his confident leap over a wall wasn't... shall we say... successful? Here Simon runs at the wall and easily bounds over it and effortlessly hops over the multiple fences, getting smaller and smaller in the frame as he gets over the obstacles. At the end of the low to the ground fence hurdles is a giant fence at least 4 feet higher. Simon leaps over the last of the little fences, out of sight for a split second and then he comes jumping up, doing 2 or 3 flips and flying over the big fence, like he hit a trampoline.
Nick looks on in puzzlement, but then charges the first fence and crashes right through it, falling flat.
Clip 4:
Simon and Nick and Filch from HARRY POTTER (David Bradley) are led into a shed where there is a huge stash of guns. When they see the weapons, both their eyes light up, none more than Nick Frost, though. He's grinning ear to ear and exclaims, "By the power of Greyskull!!" The editing here is hilarious. It takes the action movie cliche of quickly cutting to see lots of weapons to an extreme, cutting quickly for 20 seconds or so, often times back to the same rack of shotguns. Not only are there guns, but there are also explosives, including a giant spiked and rusted water mine. It gets kicked and starts making all these hollowy/echoey sounds. All three get an "oh shit!" look on their faces haul ass out. They bust out of the shack and run towards camera... we're obviously waiting for the big explosion. Nick and Simon dive over a shrub in front of camera, hitting the ground and rolling... and nothing. No explosion. Nothing. They sit and look at the building for a few seconds and kinda go, "huh..." Then it cuts to them standing in a field with the water mine. "It's been deactivated..." Somebody, "What?" "It's not live!" and Nick kicks it again, producing the same hollowing/echoing countdown sounding vibration going through it again. Clip ends here.”

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it is released in the UK until March 2007!

Chrisso · 28-07-2006, 16:26

And while you're waiting for the release date to be confirmed, production video diaries from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright can be viewed here:

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film.php?filmID=99

Motthus · 24-09-2006, 18:01

I have the trailer for Hot Fuzz twice in the last week in the cinema and it looks so good. On the trailer it states that Hot Fuzz will be out Feb 2007 and it looks like it could be as funny as Shaun Of The Dead!

02-03-2006, 11:14	#1
Motthus Forum Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,928	Hot Fuzz This was on Ainitcool.com about Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg (Shaun Of The Dead) new film Hot Fuzz: "A Working Title production in association with Big Talk Productions, Hot Fuzz is directed by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg. A comedy about a London cop who is seconded to deepest, darkest Somerset, the film is from an original screenplay by Wright and Pegg. Hot Fuzz will be produced by Nira Park (Shaun of the Dead), Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and the executive producer is Natascha Wharton. Pegg leads a stellar British cast including Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge), Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights), Steve Coogan (A Cock and Bull Story) and Martin Freeman (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Paddy Considine, Bill Bailey, Olivia Colman, Anne Reid, Rafe Spall, David Bradley, Stewart Wilson, Paul Freeman and Edward Woodward.. Says producer Nira Park, "We're delighted to once again be joining creative forces with Working Title on this very exciting and very British film. Together, we're looking forward to giving the police action genre the same treatment we gave the living dead in 2004." Police constable, Nicholas Angel is good at his job, so good in fact, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, his superiors at the Met have decided to sweep him under the carpet. So it is that London's top cop March finds himself in the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost), an oafish but well meaning young Constable, who dreams of being Mel Gibson. Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play, Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems. The film will start principal photography later on in March" Lets hope this film is as good as Shaun Of The Dead!

03-06-2006, 18:40	#3
Skivey Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	Thats A Rap! Just finished my shoot for the day, an amazing day finished by an amazing round of applause tothe cast and crew whos last day it was. A bit surreal being in the same scenes as edward woodward and timothy dalton, but hey... we all get our 15 minutes oneday! Hail HOT FUZZ, next years british comedy of the last millenium! Good day! Skivey!

20-04-2006, 15:16	#2
Motthus Forum Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,928	Here is some more news about Hot Fuzz that was on the Empire website: "Empire’s just come back from a nice chat with Jessica Stevenson and Martin Freeman about their new film Confetti (you can read all that in our Interviews section very soon) and as Martin had just hotfooted it from the set of Hot Fuzz - the latest film from the Shaun Of The Dead gang - it seemed only polite to ask him how it’s all going. “I’m the first voice you hear in the film,” says Martin. “I’m quite anally retentive, slightly superior to Simon Pegg’s character, and I’m the one who tells him that he’s basically being moved from the Met to the country because he’s so good he’s making the rest of us look bad. But he doesn’t believe me so I get Steve Coogan in. He doesn’t believe Steve Coogan so then we’ve got to get Bill Nighy in and we’re all saying ‘Listen, you’ve got to go mate’ so eventually he goes. Then the hilarity begins.” Unsurprisingly for fans of Shaun, and Edgar and Simon’s TV show, Spaced, Freeman thinks the story is a goodie. “I think it’s a very funny script and they’ve assembled a cast that is pretty tremendous really – myself excluded,” he says (ease up on the modesty there Martin). “It’ll be amazing, it’s brilliant. It’s got Simon and Edgar’s typical sharp eye and sharp ear. At the read through it was a really great group of people and obviously they all wanted to be there, attracted to the material.” Seeing as Stevenson played ass-kicking zombie fighter Yvonne in Shaun and co-wrote Spaced with Simon, will she be turning up in Fuzz? “Absolutely not and I’m very annoyed!” she says (laughing, we might add). “It’s very boysy, I don’t think there are any girls, and if there are any girls then I don’t know who they are.” And just for emphasis: “I’m not doing a cameo, I haven’t been asked to do a cameo and maybe even if they did ask me I wouldn’t do it anyway!”

05-06-2006, 15:25	#4
Motthus Forum Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,928	Lucky you to get to feature in Hot Fuzz! So when is the offical UK release date for Hot Fuzz?

28-07-2006, 13:08	#5
Motthus Forum Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,928	They showed 4 clips from Hot Fuzz at Comic Con here are the descriptions of those clips from Aintitcool.com: “Clip 1: Simon Pegg talking to a classroom about why he wanted to be a cop. Nick Frost is sitting with all the kids as Pegg is talking about what it takes to be a police officer... unquestionable moral authority, etc. "Any questions?" Frost looks around, looking for raised hands and then raises his own. Pegg acknowledges him. "Is it true that there is a place on a man's head that if you shoot it, it will blow up?" Then it cuts to the badass totally 80s cheesy cop movie logo of HOT and FUZZ being all ROBOCOP silver. Each word gets hit with a bullet, spinning them around like a carnival target shooting contraption. As they slow to a stop and face us again the voice over, a trailer-guy deep voiced dude, goes, "HOT... FUUUUZZZZZ." I think this was the clip that ended with a barrage of actiony type bits, with Nick cocking a shotgun and Simon jumping sideways through the air in slow motion firing two pistols all John Woo style. They all looked so serious, but I can't help but laugh when I see these guys doing this stuff. Seeing Nick Frost cock a shotgun one handed and go, "This is what I'm talkin' about!" just makes me cackle. Clip 2: Has Simon and Nick sitting at a pub talking to each other it seems Simon is telling Nick about how he got into being a police officer. "I never remembered a time when I didn't want to be a police officer. It all started with my Uncle Derek. He bought me a police pedal car when I was 5. Every second I was awake I was arresting kids twice my size... for litering, spitting... I got beaten up a lot when I was young. But they couldn't stop me. I wanted to be like Uncle Derek." Nick: "He sounds like a cool bloke." Simon: "Actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students." Nick, without missing a beat: "What a ****." Then logo and voice over guy... "HOT... FUUUUZZZZZ." Nick does an eye gag, after the logo... where he pretends to stab a fork in his eye, spraying out ketchup or whatever the hell it is all over the place, including on Simon. Very funny. Clip 3: They spot a wigger trying to shoplift. GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY eyes close-up on both Pegg and the shoplifter and the chase begins. He and Nick chase him down the street and he gains. Simon calls out that they're taking a shortcut. Nick, "Through the gardens?" Simon turns towards camera and says, "What's the matter? Never taken a short cut before?" and cockily runs at the first of many low fences. This is a mirror image to the same sequence in SHAUN OF THE DEAD where his confident leap over a wall wasn't... shall we say... successful? Here Simon runs at the wall and easily bounds over it and effortlessly hops over the multiple fences, getting smaller and smaller in the frame as he gets over the obstacles. At the end of the low to the ground fence hurdles is a giant fence at least 4 feet higher. Simon leaps over the last of the little fences, out of sight for a split second and then he comes jumping up, doing 2 or 3 flips and flying over the big fence, like he hit a trampoline. Nick looks on in puzzlement, but then charges the first fence and crashes right through it, falling flat. Clip 4: Simon and Nick and Filch from HARRY POTTER (David Bradley) are led into a shed where there is a huge stash of guns. When they see the weapons, both their eyes light up, none more than Nick Frost, though. He's grinning ear to ear and exclaims, "By the power of Greyskull!!" The editing here is hilarious. It takes the action movie cliche of quickly cutting to see lots of weapons to an extreme, cutting quickly for 20 seconds or so, often times back to the same rack of shotguns. Not only are there guns, but there are also explosives, including a giant spiked and rusted water mine. It gets kicked and starts making all these hollowy/echoey sounds. All three get an "oh shit!" look on their faces haul ass out. They bust out of the shack and run towards camera... we're obviously waiting for the big explosion. Nick and Simon dive over a shrub in front of camera, hitting the ground and rolling... and nothing. No explosion. Nothing. They sit and look at the building for a few seconds and kinda go, "huh..." Then it cuts to them standing in a field with the water mine. "It's been deactivated..." Somebody, "What?" "It's not live!" and Nick kicks it again, producing the same hollowing/echoing countdown sounding vibration going through it again. Clip ends here.” Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it is released in the UK until March 2007!

28-07-2006, 16:26	#6
Chrisso Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Leeds Services: Sky Digital Posts: 465	And while you're waiting for the release date to be confirmed, production video diaries from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright can be viewed here: http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film.php?filmID=99

24-09-2006, 18:01	#7
Motthus Forum Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,928	I have the trailer for Hot Fuzz twice in the last week in the cinema and it looks so good. On the trailer it states that Hot Fuzz will be out Feb 2007 and it looks like it could be as funny as Shaun Of The Dead!