The actors may have reunited in subsequent films including Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, but we never have seen the return of Shaun and Ed in a proper Shaun of the Dead sequel. Fans of the horror-comedy have been begging for a follow-up since the film was released in 2004, and in fact, Simon Pegg once (jokingly) wrote a treatment for a sequel titled From Dusk Till Shaun.
But we likely won’t be seeing a Shaun of the Dead sequel anytime soon, and probably not ever. Speaking with SFX Magazine, Edgar Wright explains why he just doesn’t have any interest.
“I haven’t gone back to horror-comedy, because with Shaun of the Dead I felt like I had said much of what I wanted to say with that movie,” he tells SFX Magazine. “It’s difficult to return to that, even as a producer. Sometimes I get sent films – people want to make the next Shaun and want me to come aboard as a producer. But I find it difficult to cover the same territory again.”
Wright continues, “The thing is that films take so long to make. I think that’s the thing that fans don’t quite understand sometimes. They’ll say, ‘Why don’t you knock out a Shaun sequel?’ It’s like, these films take three years to make, you’ve got to really, really love it to do it. So because films take longer to make, trying to challenge yourself with a different subject matter or something you haven’t done before, it’s always the real motivator.”
And that brings us to Last Night in Soho, Edgar Wright’s brand new psychological horror movie that’s releasing on October 29. To say the least, it looks like nothing Wright has ever done before, a far cry from the horror-comedy antics that introduced him to American audiences.
Last Night in Soho takes us back to London’s Soho district during the Swinging Sixties, with Thomasin McKenzie starring as a fashion designer who uncovers a murder from the past. The victim? Anya Taylor-Joy‘s Sandie, a singer from the ’60s.
In the film, “Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.”
