'The World's End' Featurette: That Edgar Wright Is A Darn Good Director

We've seen a healthy collection of footage for Edgar Wright's new film The World's End, to the degree that many of you might not want to see anything else before the film opens. That said, this featurette is worth a look, thanks to the inclusion of a lot of lovely behind the scenes footage. The intent of this one is to celebrate the work of Wright as a director. He's pretty great, say the interview clips here, but you probably already knew that.

There's also some music in this one that is interesting — a taste of the film's score, perhaps, complete with a strange layering of sounds sound a lot like cell phone interference. (Edit: Yep, that is some of the score.) It's an eerie sound that works well with this footage, and a fun mutation of the sci-fi synth scores from the '70s and '80s.

The World's End opens in the UK on July 19 and in the US on August 23.

Director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for a third film following the successes "Shaun of the Dead" (2004) and "Hot Fuzz" (2007). In "The World's End," 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.