Here’s the motherload of collaborations if I ever saw one: Jack Black, Edgar Wright, Mike White, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost. Add them all together and do you know what you get? THEM! That’s right, according to White (in an interview with /Film), who’s writing THEM with Wright as we speak, Black may well be making an appearance, along with Wrigh fav’s Pegg & Frost. And how flippin’ cool would that be???
For those out there thinking: what the shit is THEM?, have no fear, as White puts it like this: It’s like a conspiracy theory comedy horror movie. Whatever the hell that means… It’s also based on the book by Jon Ronson called THEM: ADVENTURES WITH EXTREMISTS, which goes a bit like this: British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us.
Wow. A story like that, from the folks who brought us SHAUN OF THE DEAD and THE SCHOOL OF ROCK? Sheit… I’m so there! While it’s just light talk on whether Black will be involved at this point, with White and Wright on board, I can hardly see how he wouldn’t. And what about Pegg and Frost? When asked if they’ll be on board, Pegg told Wright: If he’s going to bring his bitches, you should bring yours.. Nuff said. Check out the full interview by clicking HERE, and stick around for more of THEM as we hear it!
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