New Posters for Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ Starring Simon Pegg & Nick Frost
Focus Features has released two new posters for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End. This is the end, raise your glass and count to ten. Feel the world move and then, pass the hell out because you have the spins. The third installment in the “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” centers on five childhood friends who reunite after twenty years to repeat a legendary pub crawl from their youth , returning to their hometown to once again attempt to reach the fabled pub “The World’s End.” The film stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike and opens on August 23rd.
20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.