Finally, "Shaun of the Dead" helmer Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg's British cop movie has been given the green light by Working Title reports Empire. The movie, which stars "Shaun" leads Pegg and Nick Frost as two mismatched cops who team up in a West Country backwater, has been talked about but somewhat stuck in limbo for over a year now. Whilst he won't give away plot points, he says Shane Black's work and the "Dirty Harry" films habe been a big influence on the flick.
Pegg himself explained the reasoning behind why it took so long to get approval - ""We got the green light yesterday. It sounds as if it's going to be March, which is exciting. We've actually been writing it for most of the year!. We've been working so hard on it. It's such a complex script. I think the first draft was 235 pages long because we thought 'oh fuck it, let's just go for it, let's just vomit it onto the page and see what happens'. And we've shaved off a hundred-odd pages, but it's one of those things where if you remove one thing, there's a pay-off later on that needs to be addressed".
"It's been a far more intensive process than writing Shaun. Shaun kinda wrote itself in a way, but this took some real brainpower. It's been brilliant fun and a real exercise in comedy and logic. Sometimes we'd sit there frowning at each other, thinking 'we're writing a comedy!' We'd be scratching our heads and crying, but I think that what we've come up with now is a better script than Shaun Of The Dead, so fingers crossed."
