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Edgar Wright
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).
As director
The Running Man
What the Hell Is It This Time? Sparks: Live in London
Last Night in Soho
The Sparks Brothers
Baby Driver
The World's End
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Mint Royale: Blue Song
Forced Hilarity
A Fistful of Fingers
Dead Right
Help!
Carbolic Soap
I Want to Get Into the Movies!
Barbarella
Set My Heart to Five
Dodge & Twist
As actor
The Sparks Brothers
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Sing 2
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis
Friedkin Uncut
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Tour de Pharmacy
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sing
Out of Print
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Lennon or McCartney
Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World's End
The World's End
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'
The Fuzzball Rally
One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz
Suck My Geek!
Son of Rambow
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Land of the Dead
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
When Shaun Met George
Spaced: Skip to the End
Shaun of the Dead
Calcium
A Fistful of Fingers