Simon Pegg in ‘Run Fatboy Run’
I’ve mentioned this film briefly before when talking about Pegg’s upcoming projects. The trailer for ‘Run Fatboy Run’ has been playing before ‘Hot Fuzz’ here in the UK, and has cropped up on youtube. ‘Big Nothing’ wasn’t very good, but it’s problems lay in it’s contrived plot rather than anything Pegg did on screen. ‘Fatboy’ already looks funnier than ‘Big Nothing’ just from the amount of chuckles in the trailer alone (mostly involving Pegg hurting himself). Here’s the synopsis for ‘Fatboy’:
A chunky, clueless guy leaves his fiancée on their wedding day only to discover — some 10 years later — that she is his one true love. But in order to win back her heart, he looks to finish his first marathon while making her realize her new man is the wrong guy for her.
via Aintitcool
Surely this is just a very convenient way for Pegg to document the actual slimming he had to go through to play hardened cop Angel in Hot Fuzz?