Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright is a British film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his fast-paced, visually inventive style and genre-blending comedies. He rose to prominence with the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End) and has also directed films such as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Baby Driver, and Last Night in Soho. He continues to work internationally as a prominent filmmaker in both studio and independent cinema.

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Airplane!👍 Recommends
…discussing influential comedy films from his childhood
“I mean, I'm still like a huge comedy fan and, you know, the best comedy films that just like, you know, obviously when I was growing up things like the Zucker Brothers films. Yeah. Zucker, Abraham Zucker. I shouldn't leave Jim Abrams out. But you know, that things like Airplane and Top Secret, those films are huge for me.”
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Alan Partridge👍 Recommends
…discussing british comedy shows that influenced his sense of humor
“I mean, alternative comedy as they called it in the 80s was like huge and there were like shows that haven't traveled over to the US that, you know, I mean, I guess in that pre kind of like cable age where things started traveling over like 20 years ago but prior to that there'd be things like The Day to Day and Brass Eye and Alan Partridge and those shows were like huge for me.”
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Bell Bottoms by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion👍 Recommends
…discussing how music inspired and shaped the baby driver film
“I think I have the kind of movie music version of Synesthesia where I kind of just imagine it. Like, Baby Driver sort of existed in my head... For maybe like 20 years before I made it, where it was that song that opens the movie, Bell Bottoms by the John Spencer Blues Explosion. I would like hear the song and I would see the scene.”
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Brass Eye👍 Recommends
…discussing british comedy shows that influenced his sense of humor
“I mean, alternative comedy as they called it in the 80s was like huge and there were like shows that haven't traveled over to the US that, you know, I mean, I guess in that pre kind of like cable age where things started traveling over like 20 years ago but prior to that there'd be things like The Day to Day and Brass Eye and Alan Partridge and those shows were like huge for me.”
on SmartLess
Duck Soup👍 Recommends
…discussing influential comedy films from his childhood
“You know, the Python movies, the Marx Brothers, like, just like, I just, I don't know how many times I've watched Monkey Business and Duck Soup. Duck Soup. I watched Duck Soup every New Year's Eve. Yeah. It's incredible.”
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Evil Dead 2👍 Recommends
…discussing formative films that influenced his directorial style
“To answer your question though, Jason, I tell you, a lot of filmmakers that were really big to me beyond like, you know, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. But there was a particular time of like when I was sort of growing up in the 80s... when I was like in my, maybe you're at 15, I think there was the year that I saw Raising Arizona by the Coen Brothers and Evil Dead 2 by Sam Raimi in quick succession. And those were real like mind blowers to me in terms of like, oh my God, look how much fun these guys are having in film.”
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Monkey Business👍 Recommends
…discussing influential comedy films from his childhood
“You know, the Python movies, the Marx Brothers, like, just like, I just, I don't know how many times I've watched Monkey Business and Duck Soup.”
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Monty Python👍 Recommends
…discussing british comedy shows that influenced his sense of humor
“Oh yeah, I mean, I think they were like, there were shows, some of them before my time and they get repeated. I mean, I felt the shows that were really like the groundbreakers. I mean, obviously Monty Python was before my time but it was repeated a lot so that would be something.”
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Raising Arizona👍 Recommends
…discussing formative films that influenced his directorial style
“when I was like in my, maybe you're at 15, I think there was the year that I saw Raising Arizona by the Coen Brothers and Evil Dead 2 by Sam Raimi in quick succession. And those were real like mind blowers to me in terms of like, oh my God, look how much fun these guys are having in film. It was so infectious.”
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The Day Today👍 Recommends
…discussing british comedy shows that influenced his sense of humor
“I mean, alternative comedy as they called it in the 80s was like huge and there were like shows that haven't traveled over to the US that, you know, I mean, I guess in that pre kind of like cable age where things started traveling over like 20 years ago but prior to that there'd be things like The Day to Day and Brass Eye and Alan Partridge and those shows were like huge for me.”
on SmartLess
The Running Man (Stephen King novel)👍 Recommends
…discussing stephen king novels and his adaptation of the running man
“Yeah, it was, it was one of the books he wrote under his pseudonym, Richard Backman. He wrote like five novels before he got rumbled... And The Running Man was written in 1982... I'd read the book as a teenager. I think probably like a lot of people, Stephen King was a real gateway author for me in the sense of I was reading his books in my early teens and it was probably some of the first grown up books I ever read. And The Running Man made a particular impression on me.”
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The Young Ones👍 Recommends
…discussing british comedy shows that influenced his sense of humor
“But I think the first one that made a really big impact on me which is more of a culty show in the States was The Young Ones which was only like 12 episodes which was so punk rock. It was only 12 episodes? I've never seen that. it was like one series in 1982, one series in 1984. Every episode ended with them dying. Like it was such a sort of like, It was like a total hand grenade of a show.”
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Top Secret!👍 Recommends
…discussing influential comedy films from his childhood
“But you know, that things like Airplane and Top Secret, those films are huge for me. You know, the Python movies, the Marx Brothers, like, just like, I just, I don't know how many times I've watched Monkey Business and Duck Soup.”
on SmartLess