![]() Sam, Gary, and Steven fight Blank versions of Sam's childhood friends, known as the "twins". Gary urges them to continue the pub crawl to avoid suspicion, which the rest of the group agree to only because of Gary's stubbornness. ![]() Shocked and overwhelmed, Andy starts drinking again. The group realises that most of the town has been replaced with androids (which they dub "Blanks"), explaining why no one remembers them. As Gary's friends find him in the toilet to confront him over lying about his mother's death, the other members of the teen's gang, all androids, enter the toilet and engage in a battle against the human friends. ![]() Angry and upset at the group after they admonish him for his childishness, stubbornness and selective memory, Gary goes to the toilet, where he gets into a fight with a teenager and knocks his head off, exposing him as an android. After Peter encounters Shane Hawkins, his childhood bully who does not seem to remember him, Gary interrupts Peter's account of his torment after going off to buy a round of shots. The town residents do not recognise the group, except for one bartender who tells them that they are banned. The group encounters Oliver's sister, Sam, over whom Gary and Steven fought in school during the teenage crawl, Gary had sex with Sam in a pub toilet. Andy, now a teetotaller due to a drunk driving crash years before involving himself and Gary, reluctantly agrees to join after Gary tells him that his mother died. The group attempted the crawl as teens on 22 June 1990, but failed to reach the final three pubs. Gary King, an immature 40-year-old alcoholic, decides to recapture his youth by contacting his boyhood friends Oliver Chamberlain, Peter Page, Steven Prince, and Andrew Knightley and inviting them to complete the Golden Mile, a pub crawl encompassing the 12 pubs of their hometown of Newton Haven, the last of them being the World's End. The World's End was also a commercial success, grossing $46.1 million worldwide. It won Best British Film at the 19th Empire Awards, and was nominated for Best Comedy at the 19th Critics' Choice Awards. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the screenplay, performances of the cast, humour, and Wright's direction. It was later released in the United States by Focus Features on 23 August. The World's End premiered at Leicester Square in London on 10 July 2013, and was first theatrically released in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures nine days later. The film's stunts were coordinated by members of Jackie Chan Stunt Team, and The World's End is considered a social science fiction film. Principal photography began on 28 September 2012 and lasted until that December, with filming locations including Elstree Studios, Letchworth Garden City, and Welwyn Garden City. The film was produced by Relativity Media, Big Talk Productions, and Working Title Films. ![]() The film entered initial development in 1995 after Wright wrote a screenplay titled Crawl about teenagers on a pub crawl after deciding it was better suited as a comedic exploration of young adulthood and aging, he reworked the screenplay with Pegg in the early 2010s. In the film, five friends return to their hometown to reattempt a pub crawl they failed twenty-three years earlier, only to discover the town is in the midst of an alien invasion. It stars Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, and Pierce Brosnan. It is the third and final installment in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, after Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). The World's End is a 2013 apocalyptic science fiction comedy film directed by Edgar Wright from a screenplay by Wright and Simon Pegg. ![]()
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