The World's End

This page is for The World's End (Film), if you were looking for The World's End (Pub), click here. The World's End is a 2013 British science-fiction apocalyptic comedy film. It stars Simon Pegg as Gary King, the film's protagonist, but also stars Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike.

The film was directed by Edgar Wright, co-written by Pegg and Wright and produced by Nira Park, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The film was also produced by Relativity Media, Big Talk Productions, and Working Title Films.

The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion while attempting to top their pub crawl from 23 years earlier. It is the third and final film in the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Plot
Gary King, a middle-aged alcoholic, resolves to track down his estranged school friends, and complete The Golden Mile, a pub crawl encompassing 12 pubs in their home town of Newton Haven. The group attempted the crawl as teenagers, in 1990, but failed to reach the final pub, The World's End.

Gary arrives in Newton Haven with friends Peter, Oliver, Steven, and Andy. They book a room at the local Bed & Breakfast, go out and begin The Golden Mile.

In The First Post, Gary and Andy argue about Andy's drinking of water instead of beer and they move on to the next pub. In the second pub, The Old Familiar, where they see Oliver's sister, Sam. They are thrown out of the third pub for Gary's being barred in 1990. In the fourth pub, all except Gary talk about leaving, and while he is in the toilet, he has a little skirmish with a teenager. When the teenager's head comes off, he is revealed to be a robot. Gary's friends walk in

Some time later, Andy recounts this story around a campfire in the ruins of London. The destruction of Newton Haven triggered a worldwide electro-magnetic pulse that wiped out modern technology and set humanity back to the Dark Ages. The remaining robots have reactivated and are mistrusted by surviving humans. Andy's marriage has recovered, Steven is in a relationship with Sam, and robot versions of Peter and Oliver have returned to a semblance of their former lives. In the ruins of Newton Haven, the now-sober Gary enters a pub with the younger robot versions of his friends and orders five glasses of water. When the bartender refuses to serve robots, Gary draws a sword and leads his robot friends into a brawl.

Fan Art
A large amount of fan art was created for The World's End, due to the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and the hype for the new film. Here are our top 3 picks: