Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead had its 20th birthday last year, and if you’re someone thinking it should have a followup, your hopes will have to remain just that.

While doing promo for his upcoming film The Running Man, Polygon asked the British filmmaker if he’d ever considered a second film. He politely declined the notion, explaining that he and longtime creative partner Simon Pegg don’t feel like there’s any gas in the tank for more Shaun adventures. In his eyes, a lot of sequels “don’t really earn their keep because all the story has been told in the first movie. […] Shaun goes from being a kind of sad sack to being a hero by the end of the movie. So it’s very difficult to start the next movie when there’s no obvious arc.”

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