It would be nice to have another!
Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has been busy since he directed the film and just recently he said that a sequel may happen in the future. In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Wright had this to say about a possible sequel.
“I’ve definitely had some ideas and me and Simon have even talked about it at points, but it’s that thing of, do I want to spend three years of my life doing that? Or do I wanna, if I have the opportunity to tell a new story, would I do that?…I would never say never, and you’re not wrong to say that that’s the one that you could do further installments.”
The first film ended with the possibility for a sequel so that is a positive. However Wright said later in the interview that it is hard to do sequels because the first film follows an arc that does not always make a sequel very cohesive.
“The tricky thing with a lot of sequels, and especially comedy sequels, is once characters have finished an arc. Nicholas Angel becomes less of an automaton and becomes more human and Nick Frost’s character becomes less of a simpleton and more of a badass. So then the thing is like, when that’s your starting point for the next one, where do you go from there?”
So pretty much, Wright and Pegg are open to making a sequel but are unsure if they actually want to make one. We’ll see what happens next and hopefully there will be a definitive decision on whether or not there will or won’t be a sequel.
