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now guys thanks so much for joining us um all right let's talk word story how do you guys meet Wow which one which origin story do you want I was hanging around in a lab and I was bitten by a radioactive Edgar yes how did you come home we met in the gamma ray blast you tell the story you you you were formerly a scientist called like Richard Renner yeah it's gotta be it's gonna be to like the same letter and acknowledging Rena caught in a blast of gamma radiation in dilemna cross he was pinched by a radioactive peg became friends right yeah I was hanging up some washing and I picked up a ready I tooth take and I came out I fell out your bomb how did you three work start working together was it space did you guys work before that - these guys aren't you guys intention for 20 years yeah we made a lot of really rubbish little films to go didn't we we did we met because Nick was a waiter I wasn't and we I met through my girlfriend was working with Nick and it said there's a very funny man at work and he wants to have a double with stand up I was a stand-up comedian at the time so we hooked up over that not hooked up no like oh yeah it wasn't like at a sector was it and and then we just started hanging out and so when I eventually met Edgar in 96 I mean 80 on the night watch on the Night Watch on the Nights Watch we we we've formed a relationship work together a little bit and then when it came to for space to happen which is our sitcom I suggested that we use this guy I knew called Nick Frost hello a very accomplished young actor hey America whoo I felt could bring something special to the television program so you guys you guys it's basically I was the big impact it seems to be even bigger now than it has been in a while is this something you guys do you guys been asked about this special star the role baby try me I think it's because it just keeps doing the rounds I think the latest thing is it's been on Netflix so I think a lot of people in this country who had previously seen it are just watching it but it's the gift that keeps on giving I think the thing is that you know we've always really wanted to appeal to people in such a way that you know they absolutely love it rather than just think is pretty good I'd much rather one person go that is the best thing I've ever seen in my life than a million people say bring in so yeah let's talk that the children as it's now known as the trilogy what I love about the films is that there's a human story that the drama itself is not the reason but kind of the conduit to tell the scenes yeah when you were writing these and developing stories what came first was the genre or the story you want to tell in the case of showing the dead it was the genre first and but then our take on it we thought we want to make a zombie film but then for a while we didn't know exactly what that would be and then the idea came about about making a film with in Georgia Merida universe where we could insert people like us specifically Brits with no guns and no access to guns and with a hangover and and that was that was the idea and that kind of then blossomed into something which then became like the idea of like oh maybe it's a romantic comedy which just happens to have zombies in it in Hot Fuzz the central idea was like contrast the British police with like American movies but then in this one I think actually the the the story and the genre went hand in hand because the sci-fi invasion aspect of it is an amplification of a feeling it's like when you go back home you feel alienated pun intended from your hometown and so it was a natural extension of that so I think with this one actually was the genre was very organic I think some people assume that when you write the first half an hour of the movie and then pick the genre have a hat when you guys like get together and talk I know you've mentioned the word discipline a lot of these interviews when you do you talk about the writing process and what is it like safe word is wasabi that disciplinary just oh sorry yes and not the DNP DSM but no anyway I see oh is that what it is no it's oh it's your safe word no you're safe where this gladder which i think is very concise i footage that hurts my when you go to the worst safeword of all time would be harder it's like no that's a bad safe word don't do that no one what's happening is I'm fine oh yeah Sinclair just start over list no when you guys start doing the new I do the writing process like what what is that like when you guys get in a room and like start working out these ideas together well it was in the case of this one me and Simon actually had the idea when we were doing the Presto for Hot Fuzz six years ago and we had the idea pretty fully formed like it was always going to be could the worlds end the world end was always going to be the last bar and it was about like a pub crawl which literally all pub crawls are like exercise and self-destruction and so it's the idea of like do a film that sort of about um again but really it's about one man's self-destruction and so we had this idea it was always gonna be about returning home it was always gonna be about like some kind of quiet invasion but then we sort of sat on it because part of it was that we we wanted to go off and do separate movies and come back and also I think we needed to get older to write the script so it's got slightly different concerns because like six years later these guys are husbands and fathers and 24 and I've just turned 24 and the safe word is were serving you know these are things I've learned in the last 60s not only we did we definitely couldn't have written this film six years ago when Nick and I have turned 40 now at goose edge in it and you know it's very much about being this age and looking back to a time when you were younger and more sort of or seemingly more vibrant or you know for Gary King my character in the movie it's like he he could only exist in that time because that was the last time he was kind of happy so the film kind of deals with nostalgia and as an incredibly nostalgic soundtrack which Edgar and I you know we had this playlist of about 200 tracks we listen to during our writing process so the worlds in you know it's it was a bigger budget Hot Fuzz but relatively small like most films yeah Scott Pilgrim definitely star trek-like was adventure ah no you come on it was an artistic choice at a budget decision early I think it's because it's a British movie I think that's the thing is this or because the British movie the British cast if you're trying to get more money that's when you have to cast an American in the film so it's like so you know to kind of maintain its um because those bitches sell yeah it's so you have Scotty and double-bagging stuff yeah but there's still a thing is it's like it's a it's a British movie so that there's a limit of how much it can cost so I think this is like the the biggest we could ever get with a film like this so but that's good you know like I mean I am absolutely I'm actually not just happy with the movie but in terms of the visuals actually exceeded what I thought we could do with the money which is which is great so I was very very pleased how it looks and there's no in fact star trek into darkness cost five million dollars to make and UK so it's all up on the screens on the screen is above the lines very low last question do we have our on borrowed time here um I was doing what happened this do you guys do know this is a cancer thing oh come on I just hope we live long enough to see the end of Breaking Bad after that he might else he's a ghost is it you guys know it's obviously gone very well on UK international ready because we're about to open the u.s. does success in the u.s. matter to you guys is that something you absolutely and they're not worried about just like we you know we're very proud of the movie it's a British movie so the fact that it gets a wide release in the u k-- us is like amazing for us because it's like when we do Q&A s around the country do screenings it the novelty never ever wears off of us seeing our home country on a foreign screen like so that's amazing and so it's like so we just a very feel very fortunate that we get to make these movies and you know people over here in North America see them it's great this is like so well analyze three it's a Cornetto trilogy but an ice cream what do you guys call this we call the three flavours Cornetto trilogy it's very much an unofficial title inside as a joke stuck but you guys have embraced at this point as a trilogy yeah yeah it's kind of in a way it's the simplest wedding that it's the simplest it's the most sort of obvious way to bind three together there are lots of things which connect them I think there are you know it's not just the defense gag or or or the people in it there are lots of themes and things which are quite complex which knit it together nicely but the obvious overriding thing became this ice cream snack which we put into shaun of the dead as a joke what's hilarious is that when we use the companies to sneak in and watch bits of shaun of the dead in front of the u.s. crowd the Cornetto line from surely they would never get anything it'll be silence like a like wind rushing through a tunnel yeah we don't know but and then it kind of you know people started to get it a little bit more with Hot Fuzz and now in this film if and when the appearance of that particular confectionary appears this is a big wolf and it's like hey we taught America something about ice cream or our ice creams so what we're saying essentially is the Cornetto is better than King Karen I'm sorry I'm sorry you had to hear it from us that's why I'm AB injuries and gonna have to argue then that one oh no no I'm bending Ben & Jerry's is difficult in at Target oh I think you can't get it in the waffle coming what a bench oh yeah yeah you can clip up any scoop two three four scoops you know I've been in Jerry's flavour with you cool to do your mentor what would it be call meta mortals it's cool that's good meta morsels I think we're the children there's there's three in it it's this act of your life is over um what's next I'm gonna you know that bit at the end of the Shawshank Redemption when Tim Robbins is mend in that boat I mean that's after he does the walk to the pile of yeah yeah well 300 miles from our shoes that's why we're there from march of the Penguins yeah and then when Nick finishes is pressed for keeping fury and he'll walk along the beach of his birthday and see me on top and the camera just move away so what's what's next for you guys after that when are you guys getting back together for a project I don't know we started talking about little bits and bobs cuz of course we will do something again we won't have to abide by the little set of rules we wrote for ourselves with these films and we can were freed up a little bit come on that's good yeah maybe Nick could write some Wiggles River the writers together that'd be fun be nice with it if he doesn't my cancer is cured ah there you go after the good work chef emotional ownership after workout they don't pull your mind hi I'm that lovely no Edgar Simon Nick thank you guys so much oh thank you thank you thanks very much I or took interview thank you he she says oh thank you uh I'm still going we're still interview to the chef