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1. The Rise of
Edgar Wright
By Madeleine Ross

2. Early Life
• Edgar was born in Poole Dorset and attended the Blue School in
Wells, and now has an honorary plaque there.
• Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, he directed many short
films, first on a Super-8 camera that was a gift from a family member
and later on a Video-8 camcorder that he won in a competition on
the television program Going Live.
• These films were generally come

3. Creative Beginning
• Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, he directed many short
films, first on a Super-8 camera that was a gift from a family member
and later on a Video-8 camcorder that he won in a competition on
the television program Going Live.
• These films were generally comedic pastiches of popular genres, such
as the super hero-inspired Carbolic Soap and Dirty Harry tribute Dead
Right (which was featured on the DVD release of Hot Fuzz).
• From 1992 to 1994, Edgar attended Bournemouth and Poole College
of Art, now Arts University Bournemouth. Here he received an ND IN
visual- design.

4. Early Career
• Edgar made his film debut in 1995 with his western spoof A Fistful of
Fingers. This film was broadcast of satellite through Sky Movies. The
film caught the attention of comedians Matt Lucas and David
Walliams, who subsequently chose him as the director of their
Paramount Comedy channel production Mash and Peas.
• During his time working with David Walliams and Matt Lucas, he did
jobs for the BBC working on shows such as Is It Bill Bailey?, Alexei
Sayle's Merry-Go-Round and Sir Bernard's Stately Homes.

5. In an interview with journalist and author Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed
My Life, Wright attributes his edgy and comedic style to his love for An American
Werewolf in London:
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre
films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me
and always have been something I've wanted to watch
and wanted to make. Equally, I'm very fascinated by
comedy. I suppose the reason that this film changed my
life is that very early on in my film-watching experiences,
I saw a film that was so sophisticated in its tone and
what it managed to achieve.

6. Spaced
• In 1998, writers Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes were in the early
stages of developing their sitcom Spaced for Channel 4 and thought
of asking Wright to direct, 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.
• He made two brief appearances in Spaced, one in which he can be
seen, along with other crew members on the series, lying asleep in
Daisy Steiner's squat as she prepares to leave for her new house.
• Spaced was a huge success, and has become a recognized british
sitcom of the 90’s.

8. 2003–2013: The Three Cornetto Trilogy
• 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.
The film was a success critically and financially, and its rooting in
American genre cinema helped to make it an international hit. The
pair subsequently planned out a trilogy of British genre-comedies
which were connected not by narrative but by their shared traits and
motifs. The trilogy was named "The Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy" by
the pair due to a running joke about the British ice cream product
Cornetto and its effectiveness as a hangover cure.

10. 2014–present: Ant-Man and Baby Driver
• Wright was developing a live-action film based on the Marvel Comics superhero
Ant-Man with Joe Cornish since 2006. However, on 23 May 2014, Wright and
Marvel Studios issued a joint statement announcing that Wright would exit the
movie due to creative differences.[16] According to Wright, he had been hired as
writer-director but became unhappy when Marvel wanted to write a new script.
He was replaced by Peyton Reed as director, with Adam McKay and star Paul
Rudd rewriting the screenplay. He and Cornish received both screenplay and
story credits, with Wright also credited as executive producer.
• n July 2014, Wright announced that his next film would be Baby Driver. Wright
has described the film as "kind of like a musical", and Deadline Hollywood
described it as "a collision of crime, action, music, and sound". The film stars
Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm, and Jamie Foxx.]
The film began production on 11 February 2016 in Atlanta, and was released on
28 June 2017.

12. Awards and Nominations