The World's End
The World's End is a 2013 apocalyptic science fiction comedy film directed by Edgar Wright from a screenplay by Wright and Simon Pegg. It is the third and final installment in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, after Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). It stars Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, and Pierce Brosnan. In the film, five friends return to their hometown to reattempt a pub crawl they failed twenty-three years earlier, only to discover the town is in the midst of an alien invasion.
Plot
Gary King, an immature 40-year-old alcoholic, decides to recapture his youth by contacting his boyhood friends Oliver Chamberlain, Peter Page, Steven Prince, and Andrew Knightley, and inviting them to complete the "Golden Mile", a pub crawl encompassing the 12 pubs of their hometown of Newton Haven, the last of them being the World's End. The group attempted the crawl as teens in 1990, but failed to reach the final three pubs. Andy, now a teetotaller due to a drunk driving incident years before involving himself and Gary, reluctantly agrees to join after Gary lies about his mother dying.
More details
| author | Edgar Wright Simon Pegg |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | England |
| director | Edgar Wright |
| editor | Paul Machliss |
| events | alcoholism alien invasion |
| genre | comedy horror science fiction |
| keywords | alcoholic android boyhood friend capture childhood friends dark ages draw drive drunk driving electromagnetic pulse eternal youth golden mile group fight pub crawl pulse school teacher suicide attempt survive teetotaller |
| musicBy | Steven Price |
| producer | Eric Fellner Nira Park Tim Bevan |
| publisher | Focus Features Universal Pictures |
| theme | black comedy comedy horror dystopian japanese post-apocalyptic science fiction horror |