The best British zombie rom-com in movie historical past will return to theaters for an additional run to the Winchester in honor of its twentieth anniversary. Focus Options introduced that Shaun of the Useless starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will get one other theatrical run beginning on Aug. 29 for US theaters and Sept. 27 for UK theaters.
Shaun of the Useless tells the story of a British slacker named Shaun who will get dumped by his girlfriend Liz, performed by Kate Ashfield, on the eve of an undead apocalypse. His finest buddy Ed, performed by Nick Frost, takes him out for an evening of consuming simply because the zombies begin to emerge to assist him recover from the breakup and remind him “it’s not the top of the world.”
They get up to a George Romero-esque world overrun by lifeless, shuffling cannibals and a hangover that makes them blissfully unaware of the carnage surrounding them. The hilarious, steady shot of Shaun strolling from his flat to the nook retailer and again with out as soon as noticing the bloody state of the world round him is value seeing on the large display.
Shaun of the Useless grew to become one of many sleeper hits of 2004 and marked the primary movie within the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy starring Pegg and Frost and directed by Edgar Wright. The trio first labored collectively on one other British cult comedy with the two-season TV collection Spaced when a zombie themed subplot line in an episode impressed them to make a correct British zombie comedy within the type of Romero’s “Useless” motion pictures. The motion cop parody Scorching Fuzz in 2007 and the alien invasion pub crawl journey The World’s Finish in 2013 rounded out the remainder of the trilogy.
The “ice cream” refers back to the flavors of Cornetto ice cream treats that make Easter egg appearances in every film: the crimson strawberry taste for Shaun of the Useless, the blue vanilla taste for Scorching Fuzz and the peppermint taste for The World’s Finish. The film additionally sparked the beginning of Pegg’s appearing profession in America as an impressed Scotty in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek film trilogy and Hughie’s father on the Amazon prime superhero satire The Boys.
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