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Simon Pegg |
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Run, Fatboy, Run |
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Interview by: Izumi Hasegawa |
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Mar 24, 2008 |
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Simon Pegg – Run, Fatboy, Run
Thandie Newton, Michael Ian Black(wr) and David Schwimmer(dir) interviews available upon request.
Q1: How did you get involved in this project?
SP: David contacted me 3 or 4 years ago when this script first came up. It was after Shaun of the Dead and he'd seen that and I think he was talking to British producers about the possibility of it being made here and so we had a dinner and talked about it. I read it and liked it and then it kind of went away really. I sort of didn't hear about it again. And then me and David ended up in this other film together called Big Nothing, and he said on set, this is still around if you are interested and I kind of said I was. And then it definitely became something that was going to be filmed in London and would need to be rewritten because the original script was set in New York. And so I, being a writer as well, took on the duty of translating it to London and doing sort of the second draft on the script ...
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