Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy

Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
Cover of The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy DVD box set
Directed by	Edgar Wright
Produced by	Nira Park Tim Bevan (HF, TWE) Eric Fellner (HF, TWE)
Written by	Simon Pegg Edgar Wright
Starring	Simon Pegg Nick Frost (See below)
Music by	SOTD: Pete Woodhead and Daniel Mudford HF: David Arnold TWE: Steven Price
Cinematography	David M. Dunlap (SOTD) Jess Hall (HF) Bill Pope (TWE)
Edited by	Chris Dickens (SOTD, HF) Paul Machliss (TWE)
Production companies	Working Title Films Big Talk Productions StudioCanal (SOTD, HF) Film4 Productions (SOTD) Relativity Media (TWE)
Distributed by	United Kingdom: Universal Pictures United States: Rogue Pictures (SOTD, HF) Focus Features (TWE)
Release date	9 April 2004 (2004-04-09) (Shaun of the Dead) 14 February 2007 (2007-02-14) (Hot Fuzz) 19 July 2013 (2013-07-19) (The World's End)
Running time	329 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$38 million
Box office	$156.7 million

The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (also known as the Cornetto trilogy or the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy) is a series of British comedic genre films directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, produced by Nira Park, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The trilogy consists of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013).

The name originates from a "silly joke" during the promotion of Hot Fuzz. Wright had written in Cornetto ice cream as a hangover cure for Frost's character in Shaun of the Dead, based on his own experiences. In Hot Fuzz, Wright included a couple of brief throwaway scenes that referred to the Cornetto joke in Shaun. On the promotional tour of Hot Fuzz during production of The World's End, one interviewer pointed out the use of Cornetto in the first two films, and Wright jokingly said that they represent a trilogy comparable to Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours film trilogy.

Wright seriously considered the three films as a trilogy, and wrote The World's End to complete themes set out in the earlier films, adding a Cornetto reference to the film. Each film in the trilogy is connected to a specific Cornetto flavour appearing in each film.Shaun of the Dead features a strawberry-flavoured Cornetto, which signifies the film's bloody and gory elements,Hot Fuzz includes the blue original Cornetto, to signify the police element to the film, and The World's End features the green mint chocolate chip flavour (though only shown by a wrapper caught in the wind) representing "little green men" and science fiction. According to Wright, Wall's, manufacturer of the Cornetto, were "very pleased with the namecheck".