What was the inspiration for the story? Why a cop movie?
Edgar Wright: We wanted to make a cop film in the UK, because there isn’t really any tradition of cop films in the UK. So, it was absolutely none like the sort of the ones in the 80’s and then very few in the 70’s. We’ve got a lot of TV cop shows, but we wanted to make a cop film. We felt that every other country in the world had its own tradition of great cop action films and we had none. Nick Frost: I think British film making came to it from the angle of the mobster and the gangster…Then after Shaun of the Dead people kind of really enjoyed the chemistry between Simon and me. It seemed to be a good way, a buddy cop movie, seemed to be a good way of getting that chemistry back up there. HW: With the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, what would be the natural next step if you were to team up again? EW: We are going to team up. Simon and Nick are writing a script together. Then me and Simon are writing a script together, which will be the third…we wanted to make a trilogy. Lik
