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“Hot Fuzz”, the much anticipated (in my house anyway) follow up to the zombietastic “Shaun Of The Dead” will be released in the US on March 9th, and in the UK on February 16th, 2007. Edgar Wright’s directing, and best buds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are co-starring so it’s the “Spaced”, “SOTD” team together again.

Pegg will play a London cop so good at his job that his colleagues get sick of him and ship him off to nowhereville, where he’s partnered with Nick Frost’s bumpkin policeman.

The full trailer is now available via Working Title Films website, click here to have a look.

Got to be honest: I’m a little worried about this. Pegg and Frost basically played the same characters in “Spaced” and “SOTD”, Pegg a loveable loser with an excellent disbelieving double take, Frost his socially awkward friend. But looks like they’ll actually be acting in “Hot Fuzz”.

Pegg looks quite serious as a super-copper and Frost’s bumpkin accent seems to come and go, even in the trailer.

So while the good people at Cinematical are already planning hand to hand battle over who gets to see it first, I’m feeling a little bit skeptical.

But if “Hot Fuzz” lives up to “SOTD”, or even to your average episode of “Spaced”, then I’ll never have been happier to be wrong.

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