Simon Pegg is leaving comedy to go back to his original roots, horror comedy. Accoridng to Variety, Pegg will star in "A Fantastic fear of Everything."
Pinewood Shepperton Studios will back the film, this is a first. This will be a low budget, horror film with only 3 million dollars attached to it. This is a psycho-comedy, which is in the process of filming. It is also being backed by Universal Pictures and Indomina Releasing.
The film is about Pegg play a children’s author turned crime novelist, He looks into the lives of Victorian serial killers. This makes him so paranoid he has a fear of losing his own life.”
This is written and directed by Krispian Mills. This will be his directorial debut.
Other cast include Amara Karan (The Darjeeling Limited), Clare Higgins (Hellraiser),
Sheridan Smith (Hysteria) and Alan Drake.