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 director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Spaced (1999); Shaun of the Dead (2004); Hot Fuzz (2007); Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010); Baby Driver (2017); Last Night in Soho (2021); The Sparks Brothers (2021); One Night in Soho; The Running Man. Count them as writer (1 film), actor (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.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010): 2 lines, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Baby Driver (2017), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read). Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim.
“The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through Baby Driver (2017), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read). Sean says Wright used this film to work out his rhythm, pacing and use of music, so Baby Driver does not exist without it.
“there is no baby driver without this movie in terms of like the rhythm and the pacing and the way that he uses music.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

1980s bully movies: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness.
“the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)

Drunken Master 2: 1 line

craft (craft) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Drunken Master 2 ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Jason says Matthew Patel's leg-gyrating move echoes a Ken Lo move in Drunken Master 2.
“Matthew Patel even does some of the moves that Ken Lo, as Johnny does in Drunken Master 2”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

Five Deadly Venoms (1978): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Five Deadly Venoms ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Edgar says that before shooting he watched Shaw Brothers mystical kung fu like Five Deadly Venoms to get in the mood.
“Shaw Brothers type movies like, um, um, 5 deadly venoms”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Jackie Chan: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Jackie Chan ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Edgar says he was a huge Jackie Chan fan going in.
“I was a huge Jackie Chan fan.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:20 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

King Boxer (1972): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: King Boxer ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Also on Edgar's pre-production kung fu watch list.
“5 fingers of death”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Michael Bay: 1 line

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)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix.
“It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Stephen King: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Running Man, which they directed: Stephen King ⇒ The Running Man (the host's read). The novel takes place in 2025 and bakes in deep fakes and reality TV blood lust.
“The original running man book, Richard Bachman, a.k.a. Stephen King, wrote it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:38:42 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)

The Matrix (1999): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise.
“It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

The One-Armed Boxer: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: The One-Armed Boxer ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Part of the same Shaw Brothers viewing list Edgar did before the shoot.
“one arm boxer”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Baby Driver (2017): 2 lines, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read). Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim.
“The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read). Sean says Wright used this film to work out his rhythm, pacing and use of music, so Baby Driver does not exist without it.
“there is no baby driver without this movie in terms of like the rhythm and the pacing and the way that he uses music.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Deadpool (2016): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read). Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down.
“Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first.
“Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

The Lego Movie (2014): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), which they directed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read). Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim.
“Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (1) everyone in acting

voice actor (a goat), Sing (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Starman with Katey Rich)

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

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)
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)

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)
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)
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)
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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)