The World's End (film)

The World's End

The World's End is an upcoming British science-fiction comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three and the film's producer Nira Park have previously worked together on the television series Spaced, as well as the other two films in the so-called "Cornetto trilogy", Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The film follows a group of friends reattempting an epic pub crawl during an alien invasion.

The film is being produced by Big Talk Productions, StudioCanal and Working Title Films. Filming began in September 2012 at locations in Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth Garden City. Part of the film was also shot at High Wycombe railway station in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Filming ended on 22nd December, 2012.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 19th July, 2013 and in the United States on 23rd August, 2013.

Five childhood friends reunite after twenty years to repeat a legendary pub crawl from their youth (which they originally failed) returning to their hometown once again to attempt to reach the fabled pub "The World’s End". Over the course of the night, they begin to realise that the real struggle is "not just theirs but humankind’s", and completing the crawl becomes the least of their worries 'tonight we are going to get totally annihilated'.

Wright has described the film as an example of the social science-fiction genre, in the tradition of John Wyndham and Samuel Youd.

source: wikipedia