Nick Frost and Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz.

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Eli Roth has said he wants to turn [his trailer] "Thanksgiving" into a feature, any plans for "Don't"?
EDGAR: I suppose we'll have to wait and see how Grindhouse does on DVD. I think Grindhouse was sort of…not unfairly maligned by the press, because it actually got really good reviews. I think the thing was, well, my kind of pet peeve with the industry at the moment is the reporting of grosses on a Saturday morning. It becomes a thing where it's not just Variety or the Hollywood Reporter, it's every single fucking magazine. I don't know why that's so important. In the UK, grosses are not so much of a thing. People don't really know what things made or what it didn't, it doesn't really affect things. But what I really don't like is how films are judged solely on the three-day weekend. The thing with Grindhouse that was just bizarre was that the big story was about, like, a three-and-a-half hour R-rated film making $12 million was suddenly being talked about like it was fucking Ishtar. Hang on — it made $12 million, and it's three and a half hours long, and it was Easter weekend, where it's up against, like, Blades of Glory.

And its subject matter wasn't going to appeal to a broad audience to begin with.
EDGAR: Exactly. It is a cult-y film, yeah.

NICK: It's like that thing where people were saying, "Everyone's tired of Grindhouse," When have you ever had the opportunity to see a film like this? You may never get the opportunity to see a film like this again. Fuckin' hell!

Since Hot Fuzz was still a relatively small film, are you worried you may have to surrender your creative freedom as you move to bigger, more high-profile movies?
EDGAR: There's definitely more expectation. It's interesting because, I think with Shaun and Hot Fuzz, we have this sort of thing where they're kind of cult films over here, but in the UK they were really big. Hot Fuzz was huge in the UK. So it's a nice kind of position to be in because the film has been very profitable, but we're at a level where we have some creative control. When more money comes into it, there's going to be more eyes on everything.

NICK: But, I think there's also that thing where we're at a certain point in our careers where we kind of have the ability to say, "Well, we'd like to do it like this." And people trust us a little bit more after Hot Fuzz. So it's that ability to say, "No, we don't make it like this…so you can either trust us or…fuck off!" [laughs]