Aside from being outrageously funny, the films in Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy — "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz" and "The World's End" — stand out for being uniquely and unabashedly British. Even the name of the trilogy comes from a dessert that isn't available in the United States.

"The World's End," out this weekend, follows five childhood friends that reunite to finish the pub crawl that they couldn't finish as young lads. As Wright and Simon Pegg explained to MTV News' Josh Horowitz at Comic-Con, the Britishness of their first movie, "Shaun of the Dead," is what made them keep things classy.

"I think what inspired us to make the other two movies was actually coming to the States and showing 'Shaun of the Dead' and seeing that people laughed at it just as much as they did in the U.K.," Wright said. "That was very pleasing because there had been this idea before with some British films that you had to make them transatlantic to sell everything. You see a lot of British movies with American actors or actresses inserted in to make it more international. It was very pleasing to us that we made 'Shaun of the Dead' and people liked it for its Britishness, so we continued in that vein for the new one."

Some considerations have been made for overseas audiences. In "Shaun," the team adjusted two words to make it less confusing to Americans.

"There were two [changes]. There's a make of pen called Biro. There's a bit when Shaun says that the ...

Wale knows a thing or two about comebacks. In fact, the MMG rapper's propensity for successful musical resurrection made him the perfect artist to create "No Pain No Gain," the title track to the documentary about Robert Griffin III's football comeback, "RGIII: The Will to Win."

RGIII: No Pain No Game from Gatorade Productions on Vimeo.

"If anybody knows about comebacks, it's Wale," the Washington, D.C., native told MTV News about the NFL Films and Gatorade Productions film. "Being dropped from Interscope, then going through that whole ordeal, to now being one of the top rappers in the country, I know what that's about. I know what it's like to deal with that uncertainty. I use it all as motivation, and hopefully Rob uses it as motivation as well."

On the inspirational track the MC spits intricate metaphors with impassioned fortitude and dexterity. He channels the 2012 NFL Rookie of the Year's mental and physical journey back to the gridiron after a season-ending knee injury in last year's playoffs with lines like "This is hard work/ This is our turf/ I'ma carry the city till my arms hurt/ I'm a move maker/ Never lose faith/ I know the easy plays are through the hard work."

"Gatorade and Rob reached out and it didn't take me longer than a second to want to be a part of this," the rabid Washington Redskins fan said. Before rapping, Wale was a football player himself at Robert Morris and Virginia State University.

"I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times. I'm ...

No sleep 'til Brooklyn for One Direction. The boys are making a few pit stops before making themselves comfortable in Brooklyn's Barclays Center for Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, airing at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

First up, the "Today" show, where 1D grew an estimated crowd of 18,000 for their performances of "What Makes You Beautiful," "Kiss You" and their VMA-nominated "Best Song Ever," in Rockefeller Center.

In between numbers, they spoke with "Today" hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie — the latter of whom mistakenly called nearly every member of the band Liam — about their upcoming documentary and Zayn Malik's engagement.

"We always say this: There's only so much you can get across in a 140-character tweet," Niall Horan explained of why they let cameras follow them around for the 3D biopic, "One Direction: This Is Us." "We wanted to really give behind-the-scenes access ... to what it's like for us. What it's like for our families, and really what these guys [the fans] have done, really, in three years."

"You're going to see a lot more of what we're like when we interact with each other behind the scenes," Harry Styles chimed in. "A nice insight. It's a great film."

Not to mention where the guys come from.

"A nice look at our families, as well," Liam Payne said. "How they deal with us being away from home. It's nice."

Of course, the big question of the hour was Malik's recently confirmed engagement to Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards. But the 20-year-old kept details close to the vest.

"There's not much to ...

Don't let Nitty Scott MC's "Flower Child" video fool you. In the clip, which dropped in June, Nitty floats barefoot through Brooklyn in a flowing white dress with a string of lilies wrapped around her head like a crown. Yes, Scott is all woman, but she's from BK, and she's a beast on the mic.

Before MTV takes the 2013 Video Music Awards to the Barclays Center on Sunday, August 25, we hit the streets of Brooklyn to soak up some culture from the borough's emerging hip-hop talent, like eXquire and Troy Ave. Every day this week, we've spotlighted a brand-new artist for our Brooklyn Hip-Hop Week, and Nitty Scott MC is next up.

Where I'm From
"The borough of Brooklyn is raw, lively, full of struggle, but it's full of so much hope and heart as well. So this is Flatbush — you can get your hair braided, catch a taxi and pawn your jewelry all on one block, 'cause that's how we do in Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Influencers
"Mos Def, he's just so poetic and he's melodic as well. I consider myself kind of a melodic rapper, where you can sing some of the bars, and Mos is definitely one of those dudes, where he don't sing but he'll sing. [Then the Notorious B.I.G.] of course. I'll listen to a Big record and I don't feel like a character that he's falling into or anything like that."

The Brooklyn MC Is ...
"In order to be a Brooklyn MC, there's a lot of struggle around you, so a desire to work ...

After creating a phenomenon with his VMA-nominated visuals for "Blurred Lines," Robin Thicke once again tapped director Diane Martel to make magic in the upcoming video for "Give It 2 U," which will premiere Friday (August 23) at 7:53 p.m. on MTV, immediately followed by a live interview with Thicke on MTV.com.

The singer filmed his new video with Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz in Los Angeles earlier this month, and MTV News was on set to capture some behind-the-scenes action. "Well, I can't tell you everything that's going on, but what I do know is we have a cotton candy lady [and] we have three gorgeous football players dropping it like it's hot," Thicke said on the video set, flanked by four women in costume.

The video was shot on a sunny football field, and our cameras caught Thicke and Lamar riding around on mini trucks with women on their laps. "It's a Diane Martel dream, and I'm just happy to be here," Thicke added, giving props to the director who dreamed up his sexy and controversial "Blurred Lines" video. "The thing about Diane Martel that makes it so amazing — besides just being a crazy genius — is that she combines all different parts of the world into one soup. She takes the cotton candy, she takes the beautiful football-playing girls and she mixes it all up into one beautiful pot. So we're all very lucky to have her and excited to be working with her again."

K-Dot looked right at home cruising across the 25-yard line on ...

Much like James Bond, Batman has become a role defined in part by the ever-growing list of actors who have answered its call. As of Thursday night, that list has another name: Ben Affleck. The Academy Award-winning screenwriter and critically acclaimed director will suit up alongside Henry Cavill's Superman in 2015's still untitled "Man of Steel" sequel — a film casually referred to as "Superman/Batman," or vice versa. This latest actor switcheroo — following Christian Bale's definitive retirement from the role — brings to light one longstanding Bat-fact: The Batman changes.

From his pulp serial roots in 1939 to Grant Morrison's recent psychedelic take on the detective, Bruce Wayne has weathered shifts in time, tone and temperament to become one of the most iconic pop culture characters of all time. With this in mind, here are five different Batman flavors that could combine to create ... the Batfleck.

Grumpy Old Batman
Director Zack Snyder used a passage from writer and artist Frank Miller's seminal comic book "The Dark Knight Returns" to announce the Batman and Superman team-up movie at San Diego Comic-Con International, leading many to believe that the film would draw on this source material. In the comic, a retired, 55-year-old Bruce Wayne takes up the Bat-mantle again to fight back a growing wave of horrific crime. This Batman is a physically imposing force of unrelenting vigilante justice, one that doesn't take too kindly to Superman's Boy Scout routine. Despite early assumptions that this would inspire the new film's Batman, Affleck's casting throws this a little out ...

When Captain Jack Sparrow returns for a fifth time in the next installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, he'll be doing so under the direction of a relatively unknown, but uniquely qualified set of directors.

"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," the title that directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg confirmed to This Is Infamous, will continue the Norwegian duo's adventures on the high seas. Their last effort, "Kon-Tiki," was the Oscar-nominated retelling of Thor Heyerdahl's voyage across the Pacific.

When MTV News spoke with Rønning and Sandberg for the Blu-ray release of "Kon-Tiki," which hits shelves Tuesday, they opened up about moving on to directing a studio tentpole and where they're finding inspiration.

The duo has been working on "Dead Men Tell No Tales" since May, when they were announced as Disney's choice to direct. "We've been on it now for a couple of months, so we are in preproduction. We are in our office at Disney in Burbank," Rønning said. "It's just great, working with Johnny Depp and the Bruckheimer camp. It's a dream come true, really."

This kind of directing gig has been a long time coming for the team, who have worked together since they were boys. "When we grew up in a small town in Norway, we started making little short films when we were 10 years old," Sandberg said. "What we were doing back then was trying to copy 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and those movies. It is really a lifelong dream coming true now to make an epic ...