It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.

Pegg's other credits include the World War II mini-series Band of Brothers guest appearances on Black Books Brass Eye Special I'm Alan Partridge The Parole Officer and in the Factory Records story 24 Hour Party People. His parents divorced when he was seven and he took on the surname "Pegg" after his mother re-married. technician who assists Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt.

Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor comedian writer film producer and director. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Wright Nick Frost Jessica Hynes and Dylan Moran.