Edgar Wright hit Comic-Con's Hall H twice with his Visionaries panel as well as a "The World's End" (August 23) presentation with his stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They discussed the ice cream trilogy that began with "Shaun of the Dead" and continued with "Hot Fuzz" and concludes with "The World's End." They cover three genres--zombie flick, buddy cop, and sci-fi--and themes: evolution, devolution and resolution. This trilogy conclusion will be it, Wright says--if the three chums work together again it will be on something new. (As for Marvel's "Ant Man," Wright's finally ready to embrace the latest technology to excite us "one inch at a time"--in 2015.) Highlights of the two panels below: Edgar Wright: I realized what we had done is that three different genres like a zombie film, a cop film, and this one's a sci-fi film, are really Trojan horses to make relationship comedies. It's usually that me and Simon [Pegg] take something from our personal...
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