Shaun of the Dead 2 Gets Yet Another Disappointing Update

Fans of 2004’s Shaun of the Dead have been waiting for over 21 years for a sequel, and according to Edgar Wright’s latest comments, the film is unlikely to materialize anytime soon. In a recent interview, Wright opened up about why he has not conceptualized a follow-up to his iconic romantic zombie comedy despite support from the original film’s studio.

Edgar Wright says he was never ‘really interested in’ doing Shaun of the Dead 2

While speaking to Polygon about his upcoming dystopian action thriller, The Running Man, Edgar Wright revealed that despite the studio’s demand for Shaun of the Dead 2 right after the release of the original film, he declined to make it. Instead, he decided to work on 2007’s Hot Fuzz as he was happy with Shaun of the Dead being “a one-and-done” feature.

“We weren’t really interested in doing it because we didn’t think there was any more story to tell,” the English director noted.

Further explaining his decision to forgo making a sequel to Shaun of the Dead, Wright said, “There are a lot of franchises where the sequels don’t really earn their keep because all the story has been told in the first movie. When a character has gone through a massive change, it’s very difficult to have a second installment. Shaun of the Dead has him going from being a kind of sad sack to being a hero by the end of the movie. So it’s very difficult to start the next movie when there’s no obvious arc. We are very happy with it being a one-and-done.”

Simon Pegg, who played the titular Shaun of the Dead and is also a frequent collaborator with Wright, gave a similar answer when asked about the possibility of there being a Shaun of the Dead 2 in an earlier 2025 interview. The Star Trek star stated, “It’s lovely to be asked, and the following that film has is the best you can hope for as a filmmaker, but Shaun is a story with a beginning, middle and end, and it’s a story that to add to it, it — like Alien 3 did to Aliens — might end up detracting from the original.”

Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net