Simon Pegg Talks New Comedy, Not 'Star Trek'

Good things come in threes, or at least that's how the expression goes, so Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will team up yet again for a big screen comedy. The stars of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz have worked together for the better part of a decade thanks to the BBC series Spaced, but their introduction to American audiences was Shaun, the whacked-out romantic zombie comedy directed by Edgar Wright. Pegg tells BBC Newsbeat that he and Frost are working on a new comedy called, simply, Paul. Simon says, "It's a road movie about two British geeks called Graham and Clive who travel across America with a passenger... It's very funny. I'm perhaps the most pleased with it of anything I've ever done. It's going to be good." Pegg, of course, is not just a great comedic actor, but a hell of a writer, as well. He co-wrote Shaun and Fuzz with Wright, and he and Frost have hammered out the script for Paul, as well. The dynamic will also be different from the previous films, which saw Frost as kind of an oaf and Pegg as the more resourceful character. Simon told MTV, "No, it’s different actually. I’m the bitch in this one. This time Simon’s the bitch!" Paul is scheduled to begin filming toward the end of the year. And up to and even beyond that, Pegg has a very busy schedule; he's in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which opens later this year, has been announced as a cast member for a new version of David Copperfield, co-starring Colin Firth and Rowan Atkinson, and as everyone knows by now, he's playing Scotty in the Star Trek prequel. But he's not spilling anything about that movie, unfortunately. "You sign an agreement and if you break it they'll sue you. It's as simple as that," says Pegg. "If I was to give away a plot detail now I would be in big trouble legally. That's a big incentive."