After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything, co-directed by music video director Chris Hopewell and Crispian Mills, who, in addition to being the lead singer of obscure late-90s pop band Kula Shaker (remember “Hush?”), is also the son of original Parent Trap actress Hayley Mills. Basically, he’s obscure trivia personified. Aaaaaaanyway.

Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.

The trailer is basically a “whimsy” mix-tape, and I still have no idea what it’s about, but I admit the mysterious pipe-smoking hedgehog as a recurring theme has me intrigued.

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A few days ago, Redditor Golden_Dalek posted on the Internet’s favorite forum that he sent a few items to Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek star Simon Pegg three months with the hopes of having them signed. Sure enough, when he checked the mail this week, his items had returned, fresh with Pegg’s King John I on everything. And that includes a personalized letter that Pegg added to the stash.

Alex,

Congratulations on being the person who has taken the most piss in terms of amount of things to sign. If any of this turns up on eBay, I have your address and I still have the cricket bat.

Simon

Pegg added a little smiley face, too, so that we knew he was joking, but he shouldn’t have because now everyone is going to send him stuff to autograph. I just shipped a crate to Pegg, filled with expired condoms. I need to do something with those damn things, so he better have a few pens ready.

Image of the actual letter after the jump.

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Paramount released this new publicity still from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, starring Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner, from director Brad Bird (Ratatouille), opening December 21st. Here we see Cruise’s Ethan Hunt grilling Renner’s Brandt on whether there are indeed gays in there.

This Christmas… Justice wears white pants.

We’ve been hearing about The Adventures of TinTin: Secret of the Unicorn (directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson) for what feels like decades, and finally, the first teaser is here.  Based on the beloved Belgian comic strip I’d never heard of before this, the 3D, motion-capture project “stars” Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jamie Bell, and Cary Elwes.  As far as I’m concerned, the most interesting thing about it is that Edgar Wright co-wrote the script (with Steven Moffat and Joe Cornish).  Seriously, did you guys see Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s last movies?  Anyway, now that the first footage is here, it sure looks… uh… motion-capturey.  Although it may have broken the record for most dramatic music ever set to footage of a guy staring at a toy boat.

[HD Available at Apple]

Here’s Jackson’s explanation for using motion-capture to Empire Magazine back in November:

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Thanks to Robopanda for sending over this clip of a 25-year-old Simon Pegg doing stand-up comedy back in 1995.  It’s obviously not a new clip, but I hadn’t seen it before, so INDULGE ME.  It’s a British audience, and pretty much every joke has to do with being British, but it still holds up fairly well (PLAID SHIRTS ARE STILL COOL!).  The most disappointing part is that the guy who introduces him says, “Our next act is 25, I’ve got suits older than that!”

It’s disappointing, because at first I thought he said “I’ve got soups older than that!” which would’ve been far more hilarious and British.

[via EpicPonyz]