Next "Blood and Ice Cream" film as soon as next year? Simon Pegg seems to think so

I got a chance to catch up with Paul, the latest sci-fi pairing of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. As a bit of a sci-fi nerd it's a movie that's right up my alley. Greg Mottola did a hell of a job directing, and in general it's a damn funny flick. As good as it was, it always feels like something is missing. That missing cog is of course director Edgar Wright.  Pegg/Frost/Wright are like the the Three Amigos. Their first two movies, the zombie bromance Shaun of the Dead, and the action-comedy Hot Fuzz, are comedy perfection in my book.  The trio coined their collaborations the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy, or better yet the "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy"(each film features a character eating ice cream). Kinda hard to have a trilogy without a third chapter, right? The final film already has a planned title, At World's End.

While talking to MTV, Pegg let fly the possibility that our wait for the presumably final chapter in the trilogy could be right around the corner now that everybody's done doing their own little offshoot projects...


"Edgar has coughed up that [Scott Pilgrim] furball and we're now in the process of regurgitating Paul, so Edgar and I are planning to get together in the next few months to start working on the next in the 'Blood and Ice Cream' series".

"We're hoping--hoping, fingers crossed--maybe next year would be a good time to make it, even release it".

Pegg quickly gave himself some cover by saying nothing was set in stone, and that the timetable only works in a perfect world. Hey man, I'm just glad to hear any news about it at all.

Frost has gone on to do many a project on his own away from his usual cohorts. He's made solo films such as Run Fatboy Run, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, and of course Star Trek.  Frost was most recently seen in the 2009 comedy, Pirate Radio. He and Pegg will be together again providing voicework in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, which lists Wright as a writer. And then there's Paul.  Can't forget that.