Line #6 Trivia/HotFuzz


1	* ActingForTwo: Creator/BillBailey plays both Sgt. Turners.
2	* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/NickFrost only agreed to do the film if he could name his character.
3	* {{Blooper}}: When everyone's running to get away from the sea mine, you can see that Creator/DavidBradley didn't run out of frame fast enough and he can be seen ducking behind some junk.
4	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: This is Creator/SimonPegg's favourite film of his own.
5	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/SimonPegg lost over two stone (twenty-eight pounds, thirteen-ish kilograms) in preparing for the role of Nicholas Angel.
6	* HeyItsThatSound: At the very beginning of the film, Thomas and Percy's whistles from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' can be heard in a high pitch in the Universal logo. Though this is largely because the opening is a sound collage of the various whistles / sirens that the British police service has used throughout the ages, and a police whistle was employed for the sound effects in the earlier show.
7	* HostilityOnTheSet: Before filming the lay-by scene, Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost reportedly had an argument. Pegg claimed Frost was getting cocky and making the Assistant Directors get him coffee, whereas Pegg wanted him to get his own. As a result, they took four hours to do that scene, and they didn't talk to each other at all, except when acting.
8	* LoopingLines: Creator/SimonPegg redubbed most of his lines from the second half of the movie to make his voice sound more like an 80s action hero.
9	* ProductionPosse: From the people--on-screen and off--who brought you ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' and ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''!
10	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/SimonPegg normally plays lazy slackers, but his character here is a driven and focussed go-getter who doesn't even crack a smile until an hour in.
11	* PlayingWithCharacterType: Played with. The gag of the main villain[[spoiler:s is that, except for Creator/TimothyDalton, they're all played by old Shakespearean actors and BBC fodder, the last group of people you would expect to be the gun-toting action movie villains. Creator/JimBroadbent normally plays warm avuncular characters, not the BigBad of a murder ring.]] Then, when you realise many of them have played villains in movies or have connections to the horror genre, the connection makes much more sense.
12	* PromotedFanboy: Creator/JimBroadbent was a big fan of ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and asked them for a role in Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/EdgarWright's next film. They wrote the part of Inspector Butterman for him.
13	* RealLifeRelative: A couple of Village of the Year judges are played by Creator/EdgarWright's and Creator/SimonPegg's mothers. The DVDCommentary confirms this.
14	* StillbornFranchise: Simon Pegg himself was considering an idea for a Hot Fuzz sequel where Danny Butterman has to do his job in the big city, a reversal of how Nicholas Angel had to do his job in a small town.
15	* UncreditedRole: Creator/CateBlanchett, Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/PeterJackson all have brief uncredited cameos.
16	* WagTheDirector: In the script, Frank's wife's name was Iris, but since Creator/JimBroadbent had recently won an Oscar for playing the husband of a woman named Iris in ''Film/{{Iris}}'', he thought viewers might see it as a reference to that, so he asked for her name to be changed, to Irene.
17	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
18	** The original script had a Buddhist monk in the town instead of Reverend Shooter. This was no doubt changed because an elderly Church of England vicar was a better fit for the village's rural aesthetic, [[spoiler:but a ''Buddhist monk'' pulling out a pair of guns could have been [[RefugeInAudacity even funnier]]. This is alluded to when the Reverend bellows "Fuck off, Grasshopper!" at Nicholas.]]
19	** The blond haired boy stood next to Angel at the school, the one who Tim Messenger suggests wears Angel's hat, is called [[MeaningfulName Gabriel]] and he originally had his own plot and backstory. He would have been the grandson of Tom Weaver, the man behind the extensive surveillance system, and the 'leader' of the hoodies that Angel recruits later on in the film. It also would have made the NWA's plans to [[WouldHurtAChild "eradicate" them]] [[HarsherInHindsight a lot darker.]]
20	** Angel actually had a love interest in the first draft of the script, called Victoria. However she was cut, [[HoYay and most of her lines were given to Danny, with little to no changes.]]
21	** When Angel confronts Skinner the first time, he lists his motive as involving a land ownership scheme involving most of the victims which Tim Messenger had uncovered. Originally the RedHerring was a far bigger subplot, with many scenes of Angel investigating the victims to come up with that motive for their death. But as this was never meant to be more than a RedHerring, it was felt it padded the movie too much and most of the scenes were cut, reducing the plot a quick montage of Angel decrypting Tim Messengers' typos, and a speech Leslie Tiller gives to Angel shortly before her death, leaving it to feel like Angel sort of came up with the reasons Skinner killed so many people out of nowhere.
22	** Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg went to Brixton Police Station hoping to get anecdotes from serving officers, even offering to take them to the pub. Every officer turned them down, after the liaison officer had incorrectly told them Wright and Pegg were journalists. They were never forgiven.
23	* WorkingTitle: Creator/EdgarWright originally wanted to name the movie ''Hott Fuzz''. Creator/SimonPegg objected to the suggestion, fearing he would have to explain the additional "t" in "Hott" in every single interview about the film.

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