Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He began making independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two seasons and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg — as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film Hot Fuzz (2007) and the science fiction comedy The World’s End (2013). In 2010, Wright co-wrote and directed the action comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the graphic novel series. Along with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he adapted The Adventures of Tintin (2011) for Steven Spielberg. Wright and Cornish co-wrote the screenplay for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man in 2015, which Wright intended to direct but abandoned, citing creative differences.[2] He has also directed the action film Baby Driver (2017), and recently the documentary The Sparks Brothers (2021), as well as the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (2021).
Edgar Wright Biography / Wiki
| Name | Edgar Wright |
| Also Know | Ðдгар Райт, ì—드거 ë¼ì´íŠ¸, エドガー・ライト, åŸƒå¾·åŠ Â·èµ–ç‰¹, إدغار رايت |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Poole, Dorset, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1974-04-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 48 |
| Deathday |
Edgar Wright Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World’s End | Himself | 2013-11-19 | A documentary about the making of The World’s End. It is very thorough, hitting on virtually every aspect of the film’s production…. |
| The Making of ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ | Himself | 2010-11-09 | A hyperkinetic behind the scenes look at the film…. |
| Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 | 2018-12-11 | Another documentary about the influence, from Evil Dead 2 on different directors…. | |
| The Fuzzball Rally | Himself | 2007-11-27 | Follow the guys behind Hot Fuzz as they tour America, immediately following their promotional tours down under and in Europe. This documentary covers … |
| I Am Alfred Hitchcock | Himself | 2021-05-02 | Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the … |
| Spaced: Skip to the End | Himself | 2004-01-01 | A feature documentary about the making of and influence of the British television series Spaced. It also features an epilogue to the series…. |
| Calcium | 2001-11-01 | … | |
| Out of Print | Himself | 2014-08-23 | A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a uniq… |
| When Shaun Met George | Self | 2005-10-18 | The star, director and co-writers of “Shaun Of The Dead” travel to Toronto to film their cameo roles as zombies in the latest film from the man who in… |
| Suck My Geek! | himself | 2007-11-30 | No overview found…. |
| Friedkin Uncut | Himself | 2018-11-05 | An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc… |
| One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead | Himself | 2007-12-18 | Cast and crew, as well as some famous fans, recall the insanity that was the making of the ultimate experience of grueling terror that is The Evil Dea… |
| Halloween: 25 Years of Terror | Himself | 2006-07-26 | A documentary that follows the evolution of the ‘Halloween’ movies over the past twenty-five years. It examines why the films are so popular and revis… |
| A Fistful of Fingers | Cheesy Voiceover Artist / Two Bit Farmer Cameo | 1995-11-24 | Follow the exploits of taciturn hero No Name and his stereotypical Indian side-kick Running Sore as they search for the nefarious villain The Squint…. |
| Dead Right | The Director (uncredited) | 1993-01-02 | Dead Right is an early short film from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. Filmed in 1992 and 1993 in his hometown of Wells, England w… |
| Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope | Self | 2011-09-10 | A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world’s largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year…. |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis | Self / Narrator | 2020-07-20 | A majority of the Scott Pilgrim cast reunite for a read through of the screenplay on behalf of Water for People…. |
| Son of Rambow | Metal Work Teacher | 2007-01-22 | Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to ma… |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Deep Thought Technician | 2005-04-28 | Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res… |
| Sing 2 | Additional Voices (voice) | 2021-12-01 | Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connecti… |
| Sing | Additional Voices (voice) | 2016-11-23 | A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition…. |
| Tour de Pharmacy | Commentator | 2017-07-08 | A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling…. |
| Land of the Dead | Photo Booth Zombie | 2005-06-18 | The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in… |
| Hot Fuzz | Shelf Stacker / Voice of Dave (uncredited) | 2007-02-14 | As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only doe… |
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Resistance Trooper (uncredited) | 2017-12-13 | Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resist… |
| The World’s End | Construction Worker (voice) (uncredited) | 2013-07-18 | Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival…. |
| Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe | Self (uncredited) | 2014-03-18 | A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel… |
| Shaun of the Dead | Rabid Monkeys Newsreader / Prat-falling Zombie / Italian Restaurant Voice (uncredited) | 2004-04-09 | Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threa… |
| The Sparks Brothers | Self | 2021-06-18 | Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav… |
| Lennon or McCartney | Self | 2014-12-12 | 550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. … |
Edgar Wright Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Shaun of the Dead | Director | 2004-04-09 | Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threa… |
| Hot Fuzz | Director | 2007-02-14 | As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only doe… |
| A Fistful of Fingers | Director | 1995-11-24 | Follow the exploits of taciturn hero No Name and his stereotypical Indian side-kick Running Sore as they search for the nefarious villain The Squint…. |
| The World’s End | Director | 2013-07-18 | Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival…. |
| Dead Right | Director | 1993-01-02 | Dead Right is an early short film from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. Filmed in 1992 and 1993 in his hometown of Wells, England w… |
| Don’t | Director | 2007-04-05 | In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, called “Don’t”, it was a plotless trailer that… |
| Baby Driver | Director | 2017-06-28 | After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail…. |
| Help! | Director | 1992-01-23 | A young man being followed by a stalker discovers there is more to his tormentor than meets the eye…. |
| Forced Hilarity | Director | 2001-02-28 | A day in the life of an overly cheerful group of people exchanging niceties in the means of hand-drawn speech bubbles…. |
| I Want to Get Into the Movies! | Director | 1988-12-01 | A cube-shaped creature, who can’t get into a cinema only equipped to cater to sphere-shaped patrons, wants to check out that awesome triple feature … |
| Last Night in Soho | Director | 2021-10-21 | A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1… |
| Set My Heart to Five | Director | Set in an all-too human 2054, Jared, an android that works as a dentist, undergoes an emotional awakening that is sparked by an introduction to ’80s a… | |
| The Chain | Director | Rachel, who learns that her 11-year-old daughter has been kidnapped. The only way to get her back is to kidnap another child. Her daughter will be rel… | |
| Stage 13 | Director | A struggling film director meets the ghost of a silent-era actress who has haunted a soundstage on the studio backlot for decades. The two find an une… | |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis | Director | 2020-07-20 | A majority of the Scott Pilgrim cast reunite for a read through of the screenplay on behalf of Water for People…. |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Director | 2010-08-12 | As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But w… |
| The Sparks Brothers | Director | 2021-06-18 | Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav… |
| The Running Man | Director | Follows a man who joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by “Hunters” employed to kill them…. | |
| What the Hell Is It This Time? Sparks: Live in London | Director | 2021-08-03 | Filmed in 2018, this infectiously energised performance of 22 tracks spans 5 decades of Sparks’ musical genius, leaving little wonder as to why Ron & … |
| Baby Driver 2 | Director | A sequel to the 2017 film Baby Driver…. | |
| Grindhouse | Additional Third Assistant Director | 2007-04-06 | Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trail… |
| Director | Is It Bill Bailey? is a stand up/sketch comedy series written by and starring Bill Bailey. Each episode features stage performances, interspersed with… | ||
| Director | Sir Bernard’s Stately Homes was a series of British TV comedy series first shown in 1998 on BBC Two and later re-run on Play UK. Only six 10 minute pr… | ||
| Director | Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have D… | ||
| Director | A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every epis… | ||
| Director | Asylum is a British comedy series which was shown on Paramount Comedy Channel in 1996. Set in a mental asylum, it ran for one series of six episodes. … | ||
| Director | Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over one series in 1998. Alexei Sayle’s final seri… | ||
| Director | Mash and Peas was a parodic sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas & David Walliams. Their first television work together, it originally aired… | ||
| Director | French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the n… | ||
Edgar Wright Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Sightseers | Executive Producer | 2012-11-30 | Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn…. |
| Ant-Man | Executive Producer | 2015-07-14 | Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mento… |
| Attack the Block | Executive Producer | 2011-05-12 | A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion…. |
| Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World’s End | Producer | 2013-11-19 | A documentary about the making of The World’s End. It is very thorough, hitting on virtually every aspect of the film’s production…. |
| Baby Driver | Executive Producer | 2017-06-28 | After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail…. |
| I Want to Get Into the Movies! | Producer | 1988-12-01 | A cube-shaped creature, who can’t get into a cinema only equipped to cater to sphere-shaped patrons, wants to check out that awesome triple feature … |
| Forced Hilarity | Producer | 2001-02-28 | A day in the life of an overly cheerful group of people exchanging niceties in the means of hand-drawn speech bubbles…. |
| Help! | Producer | 1992-01-23 | A young man being followed by a stalker discovers there is more to his tormentor than meets the eye…. |
| Last Night in Soho | Producer | 2021-10-21 | A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1… |
| Dead Right | Producer | 1993-01-02 | Dead Right is an early short film from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. Filmed in 1992 and 1993 in his hometown of Wells, England w… |
| Baby Driver 2 | Executive Producer | A sequel to the 2017 film Baby Driver…. | |
| The Chain | Producer | Rachel, who learns that her 11-year-old daughter has been kidnapped. The only way to get her back is to kidnap another child. Her daughter will be rel… | |
| Stage 13 | Executive Producer | A struggling film director meets the ghost of a silent-era actress who has haunted a soundstage on the studio backlot for decades. The two find an une… | |
| The Sparks Brothers | Producer | 2021-06-18 | Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav… |
| The World’s End | Executive Producer | 2013-07-18 | Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival…. |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Producer | 2010-08-12 | As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But w… |
| A Fistful of Fingers | Producer | 1995-11-24 | Follow the exploits of taciturn hero No Name and his stereotypical Indian side-kick Running Sore as they search for the nefarious villain The Squint…. |
| The Making of ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ | Producer | 2010-11-09 | A hyperkinetic behind the scenes look at the film…. |
| Seconds | Producer | Katie Clay receives the power to fix her past mistakes by writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom and falling asleep. Clay subsequently bec… | |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Shaun of the Dead | Screenplay | 2004-04-09 | Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threa… |
| Hot Fuzz | Screenplay | 2007-02-14 | As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only doe… |
| The Adventures of Tintin | Screenplay | 2011-10-24 | Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive s… |
| The World’s End | Writer | 2013-07-18 | Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival…. |
| Dead Right | Writer | 1993-01-02 | Dead Right is an early short film from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. Filmed in 1992 and 1993 in his hometown of Wells, England w… |
| Don’t | Writer | 2007-04-05 | In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, called “Don’t”, it was a plotless trailer that… |
| Ant-Man | Screenplay | 2015-07-14 | Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mento… |
| Baby Driver | Writer | 2017-06-28 | After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail…. |
| Ant-Man | Story | 2015-07-14 | Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mento… |
| Help! | Screenplay | 1992-01-23 | A young man being followed by a stalker discovers there is more to his tormentor than meets the eye…. |
| Forced Hilarity | Screenplay | 2001-02-28 | A day in the life of an overly cheerful group of people exchanging niceties in the means of hand-drawn speech bubbles…. |
| I Want to Get Into the Movies! | Screenplay | 1988-12-01 | A cube-shaped creature, who can’t get into a cinema only equipped to cater to sphere-shaped patrons, wants to check out that awesome triple feature … |
| Last Night in Soho | Screenplay | 2021-10-21 | A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1… |
| Paul | Script Editor | 2011-02-14 | For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind…. |
| Baby Driver 2 | Writer | A sequel to the 2017 film Baby Driver…. | |
| Set My Heart to Five | Screenplay | Set in an all-too human 2054, Jared, an android that works as a dentist, undergoes an emotional awakening that is sparked by an introduction to ’80s a… | |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis | Writer | 2020-07-20 | A majority of the Scott Pilgrim cast reunite for a read through of the screenplay on behalf of Water for People…. |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Screenplay | 2010-08-12 | As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But w… |
| The Sparks Brothers | Screenplay | 2021-06-18 | Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav… |
| The Running Man | Screenplay | Follows a man who joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by “Hunters” employed to kill them…. | |
| Last Night in Soho | Story | 2021-10-21 | A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1… |
| Grindhouse | Writers’ Assistant | 2007-04-06 | Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trail… |
| Shadows | Writer | It tells the story of an Irish father saying good bye to his daughter for the last time as she is leaving for a new life in England. On the journey th… | |
| Seconds | Screenplay | Katie Clay receives the power to fix her past mistakes by writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom and falling asleep. Clay subsequently bec… | |
| A Fistful of Fingers | Screenplay | 1995-11-24 | Follow the exploits of taciturn hero No Name and his stereotypical Indian side-kick Running Sore as they search for the nefarious villain The Squint…. |
| A Fistful of Fingers | Story | 1995-11-24 | Follow the exploits of taciturn hero No Name and his stereotypical Indian side-kick Running Sore as they search for the nefarious villain The Squint…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Dead Right | Editor | 1993-01-02 | Dead Right is an early short film from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. Filmed in 1992 and 1993 in his hometown of Wells, England w… |
| I Want to Get Into the Movies! | Editor | 1988-12-01 | A cube-shaped creature, who can’t get into a cinema only equipped to cater to sphere-shaped patrons, wants to check out that awesome triple feature … |
| Help! | Editor | 1992-01-23 | A young man being followed by a stalker discovers there is more to his tormentor than meets the eye…. |
| Creator | Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have D… | ||
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