Not every viewer knows his name, but true connoisseurs of cinema have long considered him a cult director and master of black comedy. The name of the great creator is Edgar Wright. Unfortunately, the paintings of the British absurdist and parodist are not widely known and do not collect full rooms, but they still have a fairly large audience consisting of devoted fans of the director. There are not so many full-length paintings in his filmography, but absolutely everyone is worthy of a detailed discussion and unlimited admiration.
Biography
A talented and distinguished director, screenwriter, producer and actor Edgar Howard Wright was born in the town of Pula, in the county of Dorset, but spent his childhood in Wales of Somerset, where he moved with his family. Cinema began to attract the boy from adolescence, and even then he began to take the first steps towards the production of his own paintings. In the 80s and 90s. many short films come into being, all the work on which Edgar Wright completely carried out. These films (at least most of them) did not survive to this day. Even then, the boy has his own style, despite the fact that he shot mostly parodies of the masterpieces of the classics of cinema with a vivid mixture of genres. The first works of the director, who won success, were the paintings of Dead Right and “A Fistful of Fingers”. The latter was even shown on the air, which attracted comedians Matt Lucas and David Welliams to their young talent, thanks to which Edgar Wright began working on television.
"Fucking"
In 1996, the fateful meeting of future inseparable colleagues and friends took place - Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg. Together they work in the television project Psychiatric Hospital. Later, when Pegg and Jessica Hyens begin to write the script for the upcoming TV series Freaking, they are visited by the idea of ​​inviting Wright as a director. It is thanks to him that this situational comedy is painted with inappropriate colors of the genre. He uses the techniques that are characteristic of horror and science fiction, which gave the series a special charm and uniqueness. On top of that, Edgar Wright never skimped on referrals, so the show just abounds with them, and quite openly.
The Trilogy of Three Flavors Cornetto
We can say that it was this series of paintings, released with great interruptions, that became the director's calling card. Many authors have an idea to give several stories different from each other with completely different characters, but at the same time with the same actors, some kind of relationship and combine them under a common name. Edgar Wright took advantage of the same trick. The films “Zombies named Sean” (2004), “Like Cool Pointers” (2007) and “Armageddets” (2013) turned into the director’s famous trilogy called “Blood and Ice Cream”. Each of them is a parody of some well-known, hackneyed genre, and they all make fun of their inherent cliches and cliches. All three paintings contain allusions not only to the classic works of cult directors, but also to the rest of the films of the trilogy. The main roles remained irremovable Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It is the heroes of the latter in each tape asking to buy the Cornetto ice cream, and it is always of different tastes and colors.
“Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone”
All parts of the trilogy were warmly received by the public and critics, and Edgar Wright even received 2 awards for the painting “Zombies by the Name of Sean”. However, his next work, unfortunately, was not so successful and failed at the box office, without even recouping the budget. She was the film adaptation of a series of comic books by Brian Lee O'Malley about Scott Pilgrim, who must defeat the seven evil former guys of eccentric Ramona in order to start dating her.
The main role in the film called "Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone" was played by the famous young actor Michael Cera. In addition to him, such famous personalities as Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans and Anna Kendrick also starred there. But even they failed to save the project. Perhaps the reason for the collapse is that the picture is designed for a very narrow audience - geeks who are addicted to old computer games and consoles, comics and manga. However, commercial success is not what Edgar Wright primarily relies on. It is important for him to create and express in the outside world things that are close to him personally in spirit, as well as bring the paintings to perfection.
Subsequent and future projects
In 2011, Wright became one of the co-authors of the script for Steven Spielberg's film “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn”. But the most time-consuming and time-consuming work of the director was Ant-Man about the famous superhero Marvel. He begins work on the plot and script back in 2006, but a year before the movie was released on the Internet, the sad news was that someone else would take the director's chair. The most common reason for this was creative disagreement with the studio, which did not give the author freedom to implement his ideas. The producers found a new director and hired other screenwriters to fix the story that Edgar Wright had been creating for so long. The filmography of the outstanding filmmaker does not end there. Now he is actively working on the film "Young Driver". The project is still in preparation for filming, but it is already known that the main roles were given to Lily James, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx and Ancel Elgort. This time, it was not announced about the participation in the film of the Pegg-Frost duet, but, no doubt, it will be no less memorable than previous films by the British director.