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The World's End, this summer's alien-invasion pub-crawl comedy from director Edgar Wright, has more than a few beer-belly laughs. But a lot of the best LOLs from the movie didn't make it into the final cut – technically, because they're "bloopers" – but luckily, they made it on the Blu-ray edition of the film, out today.
Wright says all of his fondest, funniest memories are in those gag reels (watch two of them above and below). "It's all on the Blu-ray," he told WIRED. "We worked really hard on that film. We shot it in like 12 weeks, not very long for how ambitious it is. And pretty much all of the times we cracked up are in those 12 minutes. Other than that it's just working very hard."
The hard work paid off. The World's End, which starts out as a pub crawl and ends up as an apocalypse in hilarious and true Wright/Pegg/Frost fashion, was a gem – and a fun, smart genre movie in a summer that got saturated with superheroes and space epics. It was also the end of the line for the Cornetto trilogy – the ice cream-monickered series of films that went from Shaun of the Dead to Hot Fuzz to The World's End.
Now Wright is set Ant-Man, due in 2015. The highly anticipated flick will lead Marvel's Phase Three of movies and come hot on the heels of The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Not that Wright wants to talk about it.
"I have got to give you one of those frustratingly vague answers," Wright said, before adding, "I guess the thing that excites me about this one is that it's the first time it's been adapted, so it's not a remake. I'm excited for some of the sequels, like Avengers 2, but I'm less excited about endless remakes, to be honest. I just think that if we don't start making new movies there will be nothing to remake in 20 years."
In other words, The World's End: re-hitting theaters in 2033.
