Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright are shooting a new feature, Hot Fuzz, set to release in February 2007. These are the boys behind Shaun of the Dead and the freaking awesome UK TV series Spaced. The movie features heterosexual lifemates Pegg and Frost as cops (not zombie hunters) doing the buddy cop action comedy thing (a la Lethal Weapon... but British). Hot Fuzz has a podcast production diary teaser. I like a big day on set and pub action, which goes something like... "hello, the web. we're shooting at a 900 year old pub built by peasants who wanted to get drunk. and, uh, it's been here ever since."

(via twitch)

Also, did anyone else hear about Werner Herzog getting shot in February? I love this:

German director Werner Herzog was shot by a crazed fan during a recent interview with the BBC.

The 63-year-old was chatting with movie journalist Mark Kermode about his new film, documentary Grizzly Man, when a sniper opened fire with an air rifle.

Kermode explains, "I thought a firecracker had gone off.

"Herzog, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, said, 'Oh, someone is shooting at us. We must go.'

"He had a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in. He just carried on with the interview while bleeding quietly in his boxer shorts."

An unrepentant Herzog insisted, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."