Full Cast Announcement For The Hot Fuzz! Coogan! Considine! Dalton! Broadbent!

Posted by Todd Brown at 7:00pm.

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Glory! I’ve been sitting on part of this list at the director’s request for a little while now, waiting for them to get all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed so they could announce the full ensemble in one swoop and that time has come.

The complete cast has been announced for The Hot Fuzz, the new film from the crew behind Shaun of the Dead, and it’s a doozy! Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were obvious, but how about Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Martin Freeman, Bill Bailey, and - most exciting to me and a name I’ve been pulling for relelntlessly - Paddy Considine. My money says Considine’s the villain, and a damn good one.

Read on for the full press release from Working Title ...

HOT FUZZ HEATS UP Working Title is delighted to announce its next production, Hot Fuzz, an action comedy from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, co-creators of the hugely successful romzomcom, Shaun of the Dead.

A Working Title production in association with Big Talk Productions, Hot Fuzz is directed by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg.

A comedy about a London cop who is seconded to deepest, darkest Somerset, the film is from an original screenplay by Wright and Pegg. Hot Fuzz will be produced by Nira Park (Shaun of the Dead), Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and the executive producer is Natascha Wharton.

Pegg leads a stellar British cast including Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge), Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights), Steve Coogan (A Cock and Bull Story) and Martin Freeman (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Paddy Considine, Bill Bailey, Olivia Colman, Anne Reid, Rafe Spall, David Bradley, Stewart Wilson, Paul Freeman and Edward Woodward..

Says producer Nira Park, “We’re delighted to once again be joining creative forces with Working Title on this very exciting and very British film. Together, we’re looking forward to giving the police action genre the same treatment we gave the living dead in 2004.”

Police constable, Nicholas Angel is good at his job, so good in fact, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, his superiors at the Met have decided to sweep him under the carpet. So it is that London’s top cop finds himself in the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost), an oafish but well meaning young Constable, who dreams of being Mel Gibson. Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play, Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems.

The film will start principal photography later on in March.

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Mack 03/02/2006 @ 4:58am

Sweet merciful crap! What a lineup! I heard rumors about the Considine casting but never thought that the rest of the cast would be that awesome. Good to see Bill Bailey in there as well. I like his hair! Does anyone know if he, Simon and Edgar had done anything together since Is It Bill Bailey?