Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek, Paul) is going to star in the British “psycho-comedy” A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Pegg will play the main character, a crime novelist who has become a paranoid wreck as a result of his research into Victorian serial killers. Things go from bad to worse when a Hollywood executive decides to make a film out of his findings. Amara Karan (The Darjeeling Limited), Clare Higgins (Hellraiser, The Golden Compass), Sheridan Smith (TV show Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps) and Alan Drake will also star in the film, which is being written and directed by musician turned filmmaker Crispian Mills, together with co-director and animator Chris Hopewell.
The comedy will be shooting at Shepperton Studios and on location in London. This is the first film to receive backing from a new initiative, Pinewood Films, which will help to finance a small number of low-budget British films each year and provide them with access to Pinewood and Shepperton’s facilities.
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