Nick Frost Says He, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright Will Still Be Making Buddy Comedies in Their Sixties
In another decade or so, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy will gain a new taste. Who’s ready for some prune ice cream?
When Nick Frost first started making comedy projects together in the late 1990s, the young bucks started with a surreal, roommate-focused sitcom called Spaced that ran for two seasons and earned the trio enough critical clout to eventually pull off one of the most ambitious and only-thematically-related film trilogies of all time, the aforementioned Three Flavours Cornetto series. Pegg is the senior-most member of the comedy collective, having been a decrepit 29 years old by the time Spaced premiered on U.K.’s Channel 4, but Frost believes that he can keep working that geezer until he’s absolutely ancient.
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In a recent talk with The i Paper, Frost revealed that he “definitely” believes the Three Flavours Cornetto trio will reunite and continue to make hilarious and touching films about male friendships until they’re all old and gray — well, grayer.
“Our films are about how male friendships evolve as men get older,” Frost explained of Wright-directed trilogy that saw him and Pegg play best each other’s best friend in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End. Although the three friends and collaborators haven’t made a film together since the final Cornetto entry, The World's End, in 2013, Frost is optimistic that their bond doesn’t have an expiration date, saying, “I think me and Simon and Edgar will definitely do something else at some point. Even if we’re 60, it’s like, so how are these 60-year-old friends now? What’s their relationship like? And our audience will be 60 as well. We’ve all grown up together.”
And it’s not just Frost offering a scoop on a fourth Cornetto film. Back in July, Pegg angrily urged his fans to stop asking for a Shaun of the Dead sequel, but he cracked the door open on turning Three Flavours Cornetto into a quadrilogy. “There’s something always in the works with Edgar and I,” Pegg explained, adding of his intention to make a movie with his two best mates, “It really is a question of when, not if.”
While some Cornetto die-hards took Pegg’s comments to mean that a fourth film in the series was right around the corner, Frost just dumped some cold water the frothing fans by suggesting that the answer to the “question of when” could be another decade or more. After all, Wright just turned 50, so if he, Pegg and Frost going to make a buddy comedy about a bunch of sexagenarians, he’s going to need some serious time to marinate on it.
Still, it’s exciting to know that the three best buddy comedians in the U.K. are willing to keep working until they’re practically pensioners. Just don’t expect any more fence-jumping gags when Pegg is on his third hip.
