Edgar Wright

Known for DirectingBorn 1974-04-18 (age 52)Poole, Dorset, England, UK

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 first made 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 series 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. He has also written and directed the action film Baby Driver (2017), the documentary The Sparks Brothers, and the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (both 2021).Read more

Movies & web series

Shadows

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis

The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'

One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead

What the Hell Is It This Time? Sparks: Live in London

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

The Russell Howard Hour

Sing 2

DuckTales

Look Around You

Spaced

I Want to Get Into the Movies!

Hot Fuzz

Baby Driver

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Shaun of the Dead

The Sparks Brothers

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Last Night in Soho

The Shape of Water

Friedkin Uncut

Sing

Sir Bernard's Stately Homes

Ant-Man

Grindhouse

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

The Running Man

The Adventures of Tintin

Mint Royale: Blue Song

Calcium

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Mash and Peas

The World's End

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Tour de Pharmacy

Is It Bill Bailey?

Paul

Murder Most Horrid

Son of Rambow

Suck My Geek!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Attack the Block

Sightseers

Dead Right

Digman!