Edgar Wright

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q522057: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Sing (2016). Count them as director (9 films), writer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Michael Bay: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Michael Bay ⇒ Edgar Wright (the host's read). Hot Fuzz parrots Michael Bay shots, parallax and slow-mo shootouts.
    “you're kind of parroting, you know, uh, you know, Michael Bay shots”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:30 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (13) everyone in directing

Other (3) everyone in other

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Acting (1) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): The Sparks Brothers → Edgar Wright. Edgar Wright's long-awaited documentary about the band Sparks.
    “the long, long, long, long awaited the Sparks Brothers, which is Edgar Wright's documentary about the group Sparks.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:16:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Edgar Wright → Spaced. Sean says the pacing in the bread-makes-you-fat scene comes from Wright's 25 episodes of Spaced and from Shaun of the Dead.
    “that's from doing 25 episodes of Spaced and doing Shauna the Dead.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:38:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (4)

  1. craft (craft): Edgar Wright → Michael Bay. Hot Fuzz parrots Michael Bay shots, parallax and slow-mo shootouts.
    “you're kind of parroting, you know, uh, you know, Michael Bay shots”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:30 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Edgar Wright → The Running Man. Powell says Wright let loose his action chops on Running Man after Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver.
    “getting to watch Edgar on this movie, like truly unleash and like take that weapon and just like send it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:51 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Baby Driver → Edgar Wright. Jason says Wright does genre by deconstructing it, as in Baby Driver.
    “he does it in a way that's almost deconstructs the genre that he's doing.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:41:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Max Ophuls → Edgar Wright. Edgar's quarantine discovery was Ophuls, whose intricate camera movement Sean likens to a wedding cake.
    “They're so intricate and ornate. You feel like you're looking at a wedding cake or like a sort of like a clock.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:33:32 · Edgar Wright (0.70 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Ant-Man → Edgar Wright. Jason says Ant-Man still came out as a solid Marvel movie, which shows how little a director's input matters in the Marvel factory.
    “tells you a lot and maybe in a disheartening way about the way those movies are pumped out”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:40:49 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (voice cameo): Edgar Wright → Sing. Edgar Wright voices a goat in Sing.
    “plays a goat, yeah.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:21:22 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Last Night in Soho → Edgar Wright. A horror classic from Wright would not play as well at home; right for Halloween.
    “I need more instant classics and I trust him to make something like that”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:59:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Francis Ford Coppola → Edgar Wright. Coppola beat Wright on Megalopolis recency.
    “Now, Francis Procopola beat Edgar Wright.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:51:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Edgar Wright → Ant-Man. Van calls Wright leaving Ant-Man a great disappointment of his nerd movie life.
    “It's one of the greatest disappointments of my nerd movie watching life that Edgar Wright stepped away from Ant-Man.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:23 · Van Lathan (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Edgar Wright: Edgar says he never watches his own films for fun; he rewatched for an Academy tweet-along and was overwhelmed that they did it at all.
    “it's that funny thing when you make something and you build it brick by brick.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:49:26 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)