Edgar Wright at Comic Con in San Diego

Edgar Wright (born 18 April 1974 in Poole, Dorset) is an English film and television director. He is most famous as director and co-writer of the "romantic comedy with zombies", Shaun of the Dead, the "Buddy Cop" comedy Hot Fuzz and director of the surreal TV sitcom Spaced. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A blonde haired, very skilled worker with a 70s look. ... Poole is a coastal town, port and tourist destination, situated on the shores of the English Channel, in the ceremonial county of Dorset in southern England. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dÉ”.sÉ™t], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ... The Buddy Cop genre of films are action films with plots involving two men of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. ... Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action/comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, who were previously in the motion picture Shaun of the Dead and the television series Spaced. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Spaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. ...

Biography

Wright started directing his own movies at the age of 14 when he was at The Blue School, Wells, Somerset (his home city). At the age of 20 he made a spoof western, A Fistful of Fingers, which was picked up for a limited theatrical release and broadcast on the British satellite TV channel Sky Movies. He then directed a number of television comedy programmes for the UK's Paramount Comedy channel and the BBC, including Asylum, during the production of which he met writer-actors Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson. In 1999 he joined Pegg and Stevenson to create Spaced for Channel 4. Wright gave Spaced an unusual look for the sitcom genre, with dramatic camera angles and movement borrowed from the visual language of science fiction and horror films. In 2002, he made appearances as a scientist and a technician, named Eddie Yorque during both series of Look Around You, a BBC programme created by a member of the Spaced cast, Peter Serafinowicz. Wells is a small cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, nestling in the Mendip Hills. ... This article is about the county of Somerset in England. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... i like western films The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ... Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... Sky Movies is the collective name for the British premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, later British Sky Broadcasting. ... Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. ... Paramount Comedy is a television channel shown in the UK. As the name suggests, it is owned by Paramount Pictures (aka Viacom) and concentrates on comedy. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Asylum was a British comedy series shown on Paramount Comedy Channel in 1996. ... Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. ... Jessica Stevenson is an English actress and writer, most renowned as one of the creators of the sitcom Spaced. ... Spaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... 1922s Nosferatu Horror films are films of the horror genre that are designed to elicit fright, fear, terror, disgust or horror from viewers. ... Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. ... Peter Serafinowicz (born 10 July 1972) is an English comic actor, voice artist and composer of Polish descent. ...

The critical success of Spaced paved the way for Wright and Pegg to move to the big screen with Shaun of the Dead, a zombie comedy which mixed a "brit flick" romantic comedy style with homages to the horror classics of George A. Romero and Sam Raimi. Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ... A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ... Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ... George Romero at the 2006 DragonCon George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The pair wrote a comedy action thriller, Hot Fuzz. Production started in March 2006 and the film was released in February 2007 in the UK and April 2007 in the US. It revolves around Pegg's character, Nicholas Angel, a police officer who is transferred from London to rural Gloucestershire, where grisly events begin taking place. Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action/comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, who were previously in the motion picture Shaun of the Dead and the television series Spaced. ... March 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ...

Wright has directed two videos for his ex-girlfriend Charlotte Hatherley: "Summer" and "Bastardo". Charlotte Hatherley (born Charlotte Franklin Hatherley, 20 June 1979, London) is an English singer and guitarist. ...

Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse (as did Eli Roth and Rob Zombie). Called "Don't", it was a plotless trailer that mocked horror clichés, with lines such as, "If you... are thinking... of going... into... this... house... DON'T!" Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. ... Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 anthology film co-written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. ... Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965 ) (age 42)[1]), better known as Rob Zombie, is an American heavy metal, groove metal and industrial rock musician, director, and writer. ...

Wright has a brother, Oscar, who is a comic book artist, contributing storyboards, conceptual art and promotional pictures for Edgar's films. For example he designed comic book interpretations of the characters of Shaun of the Dead and created the animation for the flickbook PC Danny Butterman uses in Hot Fuzz, as well as the art for the "Plot Holes" features on both the Hot Fuzz and Shaun DVD releases. Oscar also was on set for the Hot Fuzz poster shoot to help Edgar out with the design. Oscar also directed the Charlotte Hatherley video for "Behave". Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ... Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action/comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, who were previously in the motion picture Shaun of the Dead and the television series Spaced. ...

Selected works

Films (as director/writer)

• Scott Pilgrim (2009?)
• Ant-Man (2008)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• Grindhouse (2007) - segment Don't
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• A Fistful of Fingers (1994)
• Dead Right (1993)

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Films (as actor)

• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)

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Television (as actor)

• Look Around You (2002-2005)
• Spaced (1999-2001)

Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. ... Spaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. ...

Television (as director)

• Spaced (1999, 2001)
• Is It Bill Bailey? (1998)
• Asylum (1996)

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External links

• Edgar Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• Edgar Wright Fansite
• 2004 interview with 2000ADReview
• Edgar Wright on Hot Fuzz