Martin Freeman, Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike: THE WORLD’S END Trailer is Here and It’s Awesome Posted by Karin Abcarians - 05/08/2013 - (SCREEN INVASION)

The first trailer for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End has arrived! It’s hilarious, weird and completely awesome! It stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike and is of course directed by Edgar Wright with writing by him and Simon Pegg.

Here’s the synopsis of the film: Director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for a third film following the successes “Shaun of the Dead” (2004) and “Hot Fuzz” (2007).

In “The World’s End,” 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.

 Here’s the trailer:

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Rosamund Pike sheds ice-queen shackles with meatier role in 'Jack Reacher' (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST)

Rosamund Pike has shed her ice-queen imageto star opposite Tom Cruise in their action-packed new film, writes James Mottram

You might think the daughter of two opera singers, who holds a degree in English from Oxford University, and once counted Chelsea Clinton as a friend might be a little, well, unapproachable. It hardly helps that in the case of Rosamund Pike, she rose to fame as the icy Miranda Frost in 2002's James Bond film Die Another Day, a role she played rather too well. All of a sudden she was the English rose with thorns, aloof and standoffish. Or as she explains it: "Suddenly, my personality was usurped by Miranda Frost's hostility and cool."

In fact, the 33-year-old Pike is a rather warm soul who has a way of making you feel, if only for half an hour, like an old friend. When we meet at London's Soho Hotel, Pike curled up on a cream sofa, wearing a cream blouse, spiky heeled boots and black leggings, we talk about all manner of things - the merits of iPads, the redemption of tennis player Andy Murray, boozy Saturday nights out in the suburbs, her (not entirely serious) plans for a daytime TV chat show with Pierce Brosnan, her improving American accent and the "horrendous burglary" she endured a few weeks back.

This is a particularly hectic time for Pike: she's just started shooting The World's End, a comedy about an epic pub crawl from Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. She's in the midst of moving house with her partner, Robie Uniacke, a businessman. They're also contending with parenthood. Pike gave birth in May to a boy they named Solo.

For all this, Pike presents a serene façade. "I'm much more chaotic than people realise," she says in her cut-glass accent. "People think I'm incredibly calm. It makes me laugh. They say things like, 'You've got this wonderful air of calm about you.' I take the compliment, because the reality is so far removed."

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Martin Freeman Joins Edgar Wright’s World’s End Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 1:45pm by Kevin Melrose (SPIN OFF)

As filming officially begins on The World’s End, Martin Freeman has joined stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the conclusion of director Edgar Wright’s comedy trilogy that began in 2004 with Shaun of the Dead and continued in 2007 with Hot Fuzz.

Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes) and Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher) also have been added to the cast.

Written by Wright and Pegg, The World’s End picks up 20 years after an epic pub crawl, with a 40-year-old Gary King (Pegg) dragging his childhood friends back to their hometown to make another attempt at reaching the fabled pub … The World’s End. But as they try to reconcile the past with the present, they realize the struggle isn’t only for their future but for humanity’s.


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