Edgar Wright Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Them

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Convinced that a clandestine group of powerful rulers are secretly calling the shots for all of humankind, a female extremist makes it her mission to unmask the all-seeing shadow government as author Jon Ronson's novel comes to the big screen courtesy of director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead Read More

1/1/10
Ant-Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Marvel Studios presents this comedic take on one of their lower-tier characters in this production headed by director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) from a script he wrote with Joe Cornish. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Baby Driver

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright writes and directs a takeoff of the action crime genre with this Working Title production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Scott Pilgrim's Little Life

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Cera

Synopsis: A young man must fight a girl's seven sinister ex-boyfriends in order to win her hand in this Universal Pictures' adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Oni Press comic book. Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright directs from a script he penned with Michael Bacall. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
The World's End

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The screenwriting team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) are back with The World's End, another comedy hybrid film with Wright once again in the director's seat. Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner produce alongside Big Talk Productions' Nira Park. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/09
Hot Fuzz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) always gets Read More

2/16/07
Don't

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nick Frost, Will Arnett

2007
Shaun of the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Lucy Davis

Synopsis: It's often said that the true character of a man is only revealed in times of dire crisis, and for likable, lovelorn loser Shaun (Simon Pegg), that moment of reckoning came when the dead rose from their slumber to feast on the flesh of the living. A hapless electronics store employee who spends Read More

4/9/04
Sir Bernard's Stately Holmes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An excellent vehicle for the comic brilliance of Matt Lucas, the British miniseries Sir Bernard's Stately Holmes featured Lucas as the titular Sir Bernard, a self-styled "theatrical raconteur." The series was a satire of the "guided tour" format that British TV had been beating to death for years. Read More

1999
Spaced [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Like the American Seinfeld, the British sitcom Spaced was a self-styled "show about nothing," with a few media inside jokes thrown in. To save money, aspiring journalist Daisy Steiner (Jessica Stevenson) and lazy comic-book artist Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg) posed as a married yuppie couple and moved Read More

1999
A Fistful of Fingers

Crew: Associate Producer, Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This goofy, delightfully sophomoric British spoof on spaghetti westerns was made for only $15,000 and that, along with the booming faux-Morricone score, only heightens the humor. Filmed in lush, green southwestern England (doubling for arid New Mexico), it chronicles the exploits of taciturn hero Read More

1995