Last month it was announced that director Edgar Wright’s The World’s End has finally got the green light, reuniting the director with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Now the Daily Mail has revealed that Rosamund Pike has joined the cast.
This will be the final installment in Pegg, Frost and Wright’s Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, folloing 2004’s Shaun of the Dead and 2007’s Hot Fuzz. The story revolves around five friends who reunite 20 years after an epic pub crawl, when one of the friends decides to recreate the event. However they soon realise that their goal of reaching the bar known as The World’s End is the last of their worries. It isn’t known what role Rosamund Pike will play.
Edgar Wright is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Simon Pegg. Filming will begin next month in the UK.