The original H๏τ Fuzz script had one major difference from the movie and Edgar Wright ended up cutting it from the movie, which helped differentiate the story from Shaun of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. The first movie in the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Shaun of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ features Simon Pegg’s Shaun setting out to save his girlfriend, with his best friend (Nick Frost) by his side. However, in H๏τ Fuzz, Pegg played Nicholas Angel in a buddy cop movie where he teamed with a younger partner (Frost), and there was no girlfriend this time around.

H๏τ Fuzz sees Nicholas Angel transferred to a small rural town where he realizes the mysterious “accidental” deaths are murders. The plot then sees him developing a close relationship with his partner, Danny, and their bromance is what made the movie so special. However, that wasn’t how things were in the original script. In the original H๏τ Fuzz script, Nicholas Angel had a love interest named Vickie, and Nick Frost’s Danny ʙuттerman had a smaller role.

H๏τ Fuzz Cut A Love Interest For Simon Pegg’s Character (& Gave The Lines To Nick Frost)

The Original H๏τ Fuzz Script Had A Character Named Vickie

When Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg wrote the original script for H๏τ Fuzz, they had something that didn’t end up in the finished movie. In the movie, the London Metropolitan Police Department transfers super-cop Nicholas Angel because his exceptional work is too great, making the other cops look bad. When he arrives, he ends up partnered with the Chief Inspector’s son, Danny ʙuттerman. Soon, the two cops realize the accidental deaths around Sanford are actually murders.

However, in the original H๏τ Fuzz script, Angel also had a love interest named Vickie, a chambermaid at the H๏τel he stays at since his flat isn’t ready yet. He had plenty of scenes with this woman, which added the romantic subplot to the main plot of the murder mystery. However, in the making of documentary, We Made H๏τ Fuzz, Simon Pegg explains that he and Edgar Wright eliminated the character and gave most of her scenes and lines to Danny ʙuттerman.

“There was a female character called Vickie, who was Angel’s girlfriend in Sanford, who worked at the H๏τel. She was like the chambermaid at the H๏τel and Angel gradually got into a relationship. But, we realized that it was actually fairly arbitrary really and the real love story was between Angel and Danny, so we cut her out.”

Pegg then explained that the scene of Danny and Angel having beers together after seeing Romeo + Juliet was supposed to be Angel and Vickie. Pegg said it was one of his favorite moments because it looked like Danny and Angel were going to kiss, which is even funnier since it was supposed to be a romantic scene with Vickie.

A Love Interest In H๏τ Fuzz Would Have Made It Too Much Like Shaun Of The ᴅᴇᴀᴅ

In Shaun of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ, the entire plot was as much about Shaun trying to save his relationship amidst a zombie apocalypse. Along the way, Nick Frost’s Ed was just a side character. This was a zombie rom-com, which worked out perfectly for that movie. However, if H๏τ Fuzz was a buddy cop/rom-com, it would have been too much and would likely have eliminated several of Nick Frost’s scenes in the film. That would have hurt H๏τ Fuzz more than anything.

Instead of Nicholas Angel trying to find love while solving a murder, he had to find something else. At the beginning of H๏τ Fuzz, Angel spoke to his ex-girlfriend. Janine (an uncredited Cate Blanchett). She tells him he needs to find someone he cares about more than his job. That was going to be Vickie, but it ended up being Danny ʙuттerman instead. Angel found ʙuттerman to be the friend and ally that he cared about more than he even cared about being a cop.

Pegg also mentioned that they cut Vickie from the movie, but they gave most of her lines to Danny ʙuттerman without actually changing them. This makes their bromance even better since Danny delivered lines that were meant to build a romance, but it instead built a close friendship that changed Angel at the end. This made H๏τ Fuzz very different from Shaun of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ and allowed both movies to become masterpieces while remaining different from each other.

Source: We Made H๏τ Fuzz documentary