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To have a good time the twentieth anniversary of one of many best comedies ever made — and the best comedy to function weaponized Sade data — San Diego Comedian-Con is presently internet hosting an “immersive pop-up expertise” that recreates Shaun of the Useless’s Winchester Tavern, the pub the place Shaun and his buddies try and gap up till the zombie apocalypse blows over.
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Judging from images of the occasion, the recreation isn’t completely convincing. Positive, there’s a acquainted bar, a pool desk and a limp zombie physique hanging out of a jukebox, however it doesn’t actually look that very like the pub within the film. And whereas they’re promoting particular Shaun of Useless-themed beer, the faux-pub doesn’t even have a liquor license, so it might’t be consumed on the premises.
No less than we will all the time go to the real-life Winchester pub, proper? Flawed!
Though the inside scenes set on the Winchester had been filmed on the historic Ealing Studios, the outside of the pub was, in reality, an actual pub referred to as The Duke of Albany within the New Cross space of London, described by Time Out as “a tough bitten boozer … frequented by Millwall followers.”
However in 2005, only a 12 months after Shaun of the Useless hit theaters, The Duke of Albany closed. The constructing nonetheless stands, however it’s not a watering gap, as a substitute the pub has been changed with a cultured residential improvement. FWIW: The constructing’s signal nonetheless makes be aware of the truth that the constructing is “fictionally the Winchester.”
It is perhaps good for the individuals who get to reside their lives in the identical spot the place Simon Pegg fought off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls, however it’s a little bit of a bummer for followers of the film. It’s particularly irritating that the pub closed so quickly after Shaun of the Useless got here out, as a result of it simply might have had a second life as a vacationer attraction. Even the present constructing, which barely resembles the pub from the movie, is reportedly one in all “the U.Ok.’s most visited filming areas.”
And if persons are prepared to line up simply to not drink in an unconvincing Californian recreation of the Winchester, simply suppose how many individuals would have needed to seize a chilly pint at the actual factor?
All that stated, the precise inspiration for The Winchester was a pub referred to as The Shepherds, the place Pegg and Nick Frost commonly frolicked and debated how they may survive a zombie apocalypse, finally figuring out that they’d come out to a close-by gun store, then “run again, get into The Shepherds and lock all of the doorways.”
However sadly, it, too, didn’t show proof against the sands of time/gentrification. To Pegg’s dismay, The Shepherds was finally reworked, turning into a extra “hip” bar referred to as The Boogaloo.
Maybe it’s not a coincidence that that is principally the plot of The World’s Finish.
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