Burke & Hare & Landis...

Post on The Playlist about Landis' up and coming Pegg/Serkis vehicle Burke & Hare. Filming now, look's good.

Spaced out...

Remember all that chatter a while ago about Spaced going to the States and how they loved it? Well it turns out, as with everything that the Yanks pick up, they were planing to remake it.
If you've seen the Red Dwarf US pilot, your gonna love this. Part of the Spaced pilot discovered in the depths of YouTube by Tim Tim Bisley/Simon Pegg himself, tweeted and picked up by film bloggers alike. (I've got Den of Geek.com to thank.)

It's always strange seeing remakes - an there are loads about, but the TV remakes are slightly different. They use the same script, tweeked to fit the US humor, but still so familiar. The sound design and styling are reminiscent of the original. It feels the same but diluted, there's something 'parallel universe' about US sitcom remakes. Has a few recognizable faces, Daisy is that ginger one from that rubbish office comedy - Less than Perfect, Mike is that big bloke from that rubbish office comedy - Less than Perfect etc. All the characters names have changed too, according to the original post, when you're starting out and you sell the intonational rights to a show, you don't care or consider what's gonna happen down the line, you just want to get it made.

Whatever comes from this strange clip will never mar the original, I may be biased, living a street away from the house used for the exterior location for Megatron Lane, but the original is what helped propelled Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg into the heady film making stratosphere, and nothing the US do with the Spaced scripts is gonna change that. Too weird.

Busy Pegg...

Hey Doghousers!

As I was cycling past the house used for the exterior shots in 'Spaced' (bit of casual famous landmark dropping there), it made me wonder what one of my favourite funny men was up to these days. Simon Pegg almost played it straight as Scotty in Star Trek, but I want more funnies.

Well next year is set to see the release of 'Paul' a comedy about two sci-fi geeks who embark upon a pilgrimage in a RV to the center of America's UFO heartland: Nevada's infamous Area 51. It's been penned by Pegg and Nick Frost, but Edgar Wright is not at the helm this time, it's a chap called Greg Mottola of Superbad notoriety.

I've no clues as to the comedic quality of the film as yet, but it has quite a cute blog site with some videos watching the progress of filming and some videos that just show those crazy cats larking about. Warning: may make you wish you worked on a film set. Why did I choose graphic design as a profession?



**And it's worth noting that for those of you who are awaiting the third and final installment of the 'Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy', Wright and Pegg are back together next year for 'The World’s End'.

Babylon 5's a big pile of shit...

Busy Brit, Simon Pegg has a very busy diary. Not only is his and partner in crime Nick Frost's movie Paul, about two sci-fi nerds who pick up an alien on the way to a convention, in post production but they are also both currently be CG/3D'd for the upcoming Speilberg/Jackson Tin-Tin project. After that Pegg is signed up for Burke and Hare a tale (some say true) of two grave robbers who supply cadavers to an Edinburgh medical university. The fun doesn't stop there however as a re-teaming of Pegg and director Edgar Wright is in the works with a rumored posta apocalyptic treat entitled The World's End. Little is known about the latter only that it will feature a mint choc-chip Cornetto at some point. Nice work