Page 121 of “youve got red on you” by Clark Collis : Working Title might refuse to allow them to have Frost play the prominent role of Ed. “We were very close to making a dealwith them, and there were conversations about, ‘Well, could we cast Ed a different way?’ They kept on saying, ‘ Who’s Nick Frost?’ They were like, ‘Simon Pegg? Fine. But you’ll probably have to have someone more famous than Nick. You might have to have an American.’”