'The World's End' Creators Talk About Cops, Beers and Zombies

Back in 2004, Shaun of the Dead became a cult hit. That alone was a victory for its creators—director Edgar Wright, actor and Wright’s writing partner Simon Pegg, and actor Nick Frost, who collaborated on the British TV series Spaced—but the fact that it set them on the road to creating one of the great genre trilogies is a miracle. Their follow-up, 2007′s buddy-cop send-up Hot Fuzz, cemented their reputation for whip-smart scripts that both satirized and embraced the sci-fi and pulp tropes they’d grown up with. (Hell, Pegg’s 2011 memoir, Nerd Do Well, includes enough Star Wars meditations to choke a Hutt.)

Since then, Edgar Wright directed Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and has been developing Ant-Man for Marvel. Pegg nabbed plum roles in the Mission: Impossible and Star Trek franchises, and Frost has popped up everywhere from Attack the Block to Snow White and the Huntsman. Now, at last, the band is getting back together. Its Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy concludes with August’s The World’s End. The movie follows a group of friends who try to re-create an epic pub crawl from their youth but become humanity’s only hope in the face of an otherworldly apocalypse. Just your typical night out, really. WIRED asked the trio about bromance, revelry, and the ice cream treat that brought it all together.

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