Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy

Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
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Directed by	Edgar Wright
Produced by	Nira Park Tim Bevan (HF, TWE) Eric Fellner (HF, TWE)
Written by	Edgar Wright Simon Pegg
Starring	Simon Pegg Nick Frost (See below)
Music by	Pete Woodhead and Daniel Mudford (SOTD) David Arnold (HF) Steven Price (TWE)
Cinematography	David M. Dunlap (SOTD) Jess Hall (HF) Bill Pope (TWE)
Edited by	Chris Dickens (SOTD, HF) Paul Machliss (TWE)
Production company	Working Title Films Big Talk Productions StudioCanal (SOTD, HF) Film4 Productions (SOTD) Relativity Media (TWE)
Distributed by	United Kingdom: Universal Pictures United States: Rogue Pictures (SOTD, HF) Focus Features (TWE)
Release dates	9 April 2004 (2004-04-09) (Shaun of the Dead) 14 February 2007 (2007-02-14) (Hot Fuzz) 19 July 2013 (2013-07-19) (The World's End)
Running time	329 minutes
Country	United Kingdom United States France (SOTD, HF)
Language	English
Budget	$38 million
Box office	$156.7 million

The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (also known as the Cornetto trilogy or the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy) is a series of British comedic genre films directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, produced by Nira Park, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The trilogy consists of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013).

The name originates from a "silly joke" during the promotion of Hot Fuzz. Wright had written in Cornetto ice cream as a hangover cure for Frost's character in Shaun of the Dead, based on his own experiences. In Hot Fuzz, Wright included a couple of brief throwaway scenes that referred to the Cornetto joke in Shaun. On the promotional tour of Hot Fuzz during production of The World's End, one interviewer pointed out the use of Cornetto in the first two films, and Wright jokingly said that they represent a trilogy comparable to Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours film trilogy.

Wright seriously considered the three movies as a trilogy, and wrote The World's End to complete themes set out in the earlier films, adding a Cornetto reference to the film. Each film in the trilogy is connected to a specific Cornetto flavour appearing in each film. Shaun of the Dead features a strawberry-flavoured Cornetto, which signifies the film's bloody and gory elements, Hot Fuzz includes the blue original Cornetto, to signify the police element to the film, and The World's End features the green mint chocolate chip flavour (though only shown by a wrapper caught in the wind) representing "little green men" and science fiction. According to Wright, Wall's, manufacturer of the Cornetto, were "very pleased with the namecheck".

Wright considered each of the films a "Trojan horse", "genre films that have a relationship comedy smuggled inside a zombie movie, a cop movie and a sci-fi movie". Thematically, Wright saw each of the films containing common themes of "the individuals in a collective [...] about growing up and [...] about the dangers of perpetual adolescence". Wright reworked the script of The World's End to conclude on these themes. The films are further linked by a common set of actors. Wright, Park, Pegg, and Frost collaborated previously in the TV series Spaced from 1999 to 2001. Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Rafe Spall, Julia Deakin, Patricia Franklin, and Garth Jennings appear in each of the films as well as other projects by Wright and Pegg. Clark Collis observes in Entertainment Weekly that the films also feature "a running gag involving garden fences".

Films

Shaun of the Dead

The first film is Shaun of the Dead, a 2004 romantic zombie comedy film (or "rom-zom-com"). The film stars Simon Pegg with Nick Frost. Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to gain focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend, his mother, and stepfather. At the same time, he has to cope with an apocalyptic uprising of zombies.

The trilogy's Cornetto reference begins with a scene in which Shaun buys a cone for his friend Ed (Frost) at his request as Ed wakes up groggy and badly hung over after a night of drinking. Director Edgar Wright has said that he used to use Cornettos as a hangover cure.

Hot Fuzz

The second entry is Hot Fuzz, a 2007 buddy cop comedy. The film stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two police officers who investigate a series of mysterious deaths in a small English village. The two officers purchase Cornetto cones at a convenience store at various times, and a scrap of the wrapper falls onto the counter when Pegg's character later makes other purchases at a motorway service station.

The World's End

The third and final instalment is The World's End, a 2013 science fiction apocalyptic comedy. The film follows a group of friends, led by Simon Pegg, reattempting an epic pub crawl during an alien occupation of their home town. In the final scene of the film, a Cornetto wrapper blows past in a breeze, briefly catching on a wire fence.

Wright said in an interview for Entertainment Weekly, "We thought it would be a funny idea to do a sci-fi film where even the people who are going to be your saviors are hammered."

Recurring cast

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International.

Actor/actress	Shaun of the Dead	Hot Fuzz	The World's End
Simon Pegg	Shaun	Sgt. Nicolas Angel	Gary King
Nick Frost	Ed	PC Danny Butterman	Andy Knightley
Julia Deakin	Mother of Yvonne	Mary Porter	B&B Landlady
Reece Shearsmith	Mark		Collaborator
Michael Smiley	Tyres		Rev. Green
Peter Serafinowicz	Pete		Ding Dong Home Owner
Martin Freeman	Declan	Met Sgt.	Oliver Chamberlain
Bill Nighy	Phillip	Met Ch Inp.	The Network
Rafe Spall	Noel	DC Andy Cartwright	House Buyer
Patricia Franklin	Spinster	Annette Roper	Upstairs Beehive Lady
David Bradley		Arthur Webley	Basil
Paddy Considine		DS Andy Wainwright	Steven Prince
Alice Lowe		Tina	House Buyer
Nicola Cunningham	Mary		Patient

Discussing The World's End, Wright said that any actor who appeared in the first two films would also appear in the third, adding, "We even got back Nicola Cunningham, who played Mary the zombie in Shaun of the Dead. And Mark Donovan, so the first two zombies from Shaun of the Dead are in this. The twins are in it."

Reception

Box office

Film	Release Date	Budget	Box office	Ref(s)
Shaun of the Dead	9 April 2004	$6,000,000	$30,039,392
Hot Fuzz	14 February 2007	$12,000,000	$80,736,657
The World's End	19 July 2013	$20,000,000	$46,089,287
Total		$38,000,000	$156,865,336

Critical response

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
Shaun of the Dead	92% (201 reviews)	76 (34 reviews)
Hot Fuzz	91% (198 reviews)	81 (37 reviews)
The World's End	89% (202 reviews)	81 (45 reviews)

External links

• Shaun of the Dead at IMDb
• Hot Fuzz at IMDb
• The World's End at IMDb