‘The World’s End’ Debuts Behind the Scenes Videos

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Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Eddie Marsan in Edgar Wright’s ‘THE WORLD’S END’ (Photo Credit: Laurie Sparham / Focus Features)

Did Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost really plan for a trilogy or was it just a fluke that they’ve delivered three films now referred to as the Cornetto Trilogy? In these behind-the-scenes videos, Wright, Pegg, and Frost discuss how The World’s End is – even with a completely different story – a fitting end to the Cornetto Trilogy (whether they like referring to it as that or not). As Pegg says, he wants their fans to see The World’s End as a unifying end to the three films.

The World’s End Plot:

The tale of The World’s End begins on June 22nd, 1990. In their suburban U.K. town of Newton Haven, five boys in the prime of their teenage youth celebrate the end of school by attempting an epic pub crawl together. Despite their enthusiasm and the downing of a slew of pints of beer, they fall short of seeing their quest through, to the last pub on their list, The World’s End. Twenty-odd years later, “the five musketeers” have each left their hometown and are now husbands, fathers, men with careers – with the flashing-red-light exception of Gary King (Simon Pegg), who is now a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens.

The irrepressible Gary, keenly aware of his estrangement from his onetime closest friend Andy (Nick Frost), becomes hellbent on trying “The Golden Mile” drinking marathon again. He convinces Andy, Steven (Paddy Considine), Oliver (Martin Freeman), and Peter (Eddie Marsan) to stage an encore, and one Friday afternoon they are all reunited. Gary is in his element: the mandate is one night, five guys, twelve pubs – imbibing at least one pint apiece at each establishment.

Arriving in Newton Haven, they re-encounter Oliver’s sister Sam (Rosamund Pike), for whom Gary and Steven each still carry a torch. As the gang attempts along the way to reconcile their past and present, an increasingly insane and dangerous series of encounters with old haunts and acquaintances makes them realize that the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries…

The World’s End opens in theaters on August 23, 2013.