An all-Wright end of the 'World'

It’s not just a clever name: Director Edgar Wright really does end a world with his latest film.

The Brit filmmaker’s “The World’s End” isn’t only about a glorious bar crawl that concludes at a fabled pub that just so happened to also be called The World’s End, it’s also the final entry in his somewhat accidental Simon Pegg- and Nick Frost-starring Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. (“A joke that stuck,” as Wright puts it.)

The trio’s trilogy has previously addressed zombies (“Shaun of the Dead”) and murderous villagers (“Hot Fuzz”) with their trademark blend of humor and action, and “The World’s End” is a fitting end, a robot invasion comedy that puts a modern spin on “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

The frequent cohorts and collaborators have made some of their best work together, and Wright knows exactly why. He reasons that the shorthand of his friendship with Pegg and Frost allows them to “be really honest and frank with each other.”

“That’s something that saves a lot of time,” Wright says.

Recalling the film’s production, completed chronologically, Wright says, laughing, “In some cases, where people look tired and disheveled, it’s because they were, because we’re on week 10 of a 12-week shoot.”

The film is a surprisingly stunt-heavy outing, with Pegg, Frost and a stellar supporting cast gleefully participating in robot-versus-human bar brawls that Wright crafted to feel “messy, but also extremely fast and violent and funny at the same time.”

For Wright’s biggest fans, “The World’s End” is packed with calls back to the other films and shared themes between them, as Wright deems it “a glorious collision of a lot of different elements.”

While “The World’s End” is not a sequel to the other films, Wright and company still wanted to “wrap those things up and do something that feels like a finale.” It may be the end of Wright’s world, but “The World’s End” is a conclusion we can all feel pretty good about.