Simon Pegg and Edgar Wrights new film 'Hot Fuzz' is all set to go, with principal photography starting later on in March and with a planed release date of February 2007.

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

To read the full press release and discuss 'Hot Fuzz', click here or check out Working Title Films.

Ace news... can't wait!!!

Sounds a lot better than I was imagining. Really looking forward to it now!

K to-the-Kizzle is right. It sounds good. Well done those men.

What they said

Eeeeyyyy! Can't wait!

This sounds ace!

Will Mr Pegg be acting in it? or is it just co-written by him?

Also, am I the only one who read 'Morgan Freeman' at first?!

He is the lead character.

Sold!

That's good news!

It's just the anouncement identified all actors but simon - panicked for a second there!

I saw Timothy Dalton at my local news agents' once.... wearing a polo shirt, khaki shorts, loafers and reading glasses. It was disconcerting as hell. Quite a strikingly handsome man, tho.

Me too.

I like Timothy Dalton. Easily my second-favourite Bond after Connery.

I always thought he was a great Bond, and much maligned. He did the dark movies, where Bond was falling apart slightly and consumed by rage (especially after the friend-killed-by-shark one).

Did you copy that news out of the wells journal? i swear i read that the other day in the journal....

woooo more crazy but brilliant brit movies, think it will do as well in the USA as SOTD, or not, if it did, pegg wright and frost will be... huge, and it will rock

They either totally won't get the whole british police thing or, like SOTD, they will love to see how brits...umm...police people...as they were quite interested to see how we coped in zombie invasion. Am i being very unclear?

Nah not very. Just slightly.

Heh, this reminds me of an episode of alan partridge regarding discussion of the welsh james bond movies

Joy and jollity, good to hear the project is on the cards at last.