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Date of Birth

18 April 1974, Poole, Dorset, England, UK

Birth Name

Edgar Howard Wright Jr.

Nickname

Eball

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Trade Mark

Frequently works with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Fast action style editing, usually of mundane tasks, including whip pans and crash zooms.

Repeated lines or snippets of dialogue for comedic effect

Trivia

Brother Oscar Wright is an artist.

Is a huge fan of action films.

Is a huge fan of George A. Romero's zombie films, and his film Shaun of the Dead (2004) is filled with references to them. He also made a cameo appearance (along with star and co-writer of Shaun of the Dead (2004) Simon Pegg) in George A. Romero's fourth zombie picture, Land of the Dead (2005).

"Genuinely likes" (according to a radio interview) Michael Bay's action film Bad Boys II (2003).

Asked Simon Pegg to turn down a part in Dog Soldiers (2002), as Wright wanted Pegg's first role in a horror film to be in Shaun of the Dead.

On most of his films, there are certain special features; such as a trivia track that runs with the movie, a scene of the movie with the characters voices dubbed, and a hand drawn easter egg of some sort.

Favorite film is Raising Arizona (1987).

Personal Quotes

(On Spaced): It's a show by geeks, for geeks.

There were zombie films prior to George [Romero], but he pretty much invented the cannibalistic aspect. What we now think of as zombies really are Romero zombies.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent. Me and Simon worked really hard on the script and we kind of beat ourselves up and we're very kind of hypercritical, and so it's good to have pressure. I mean it was weird in terms of when we made Shaun of the Dead. There wasn't really that much expectation about us making a film. There was from people who liked our TV show, but you know we could kind of do it under the radar and this time it was a bit different. Even just filming it on location was kind of interesting because you'd have people watching the entire time.

Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

In terms of, like, the homaging and spoofing and stuff, I mean, obviously...it's weird 'cause, like, I mean, there are homages and there are kind of, like, skits on things, but I think the sensory joke with Spaced and the reason that I think it kinda has a charm to it.... It's kinda the point of it is not so much that, 'Hey, let's do, like, a five minute rip on The Matrix,' it's -- It's the fact that the characters are so, kind of, like...their lives are so governed by pop culture and media and stuff that they can only think in those terms. So if somebody's having a...breakup with their girlfriend, they imagine it to have the same crushing kind of...feeling as the ending of The Empire Strikes Back.

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