Edgar Wright

Biography

Edgar Wright is the director and co-writer (with Simon Pegg) of the cult favorite Shaun of the Dead. Wright first received wide acclaim for his British TV comedy Spaced, which he also directed and co-wrote with Pegg, in 1999.

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ESSAYS / Winter 2005

The Church of George

By Edgar Wright

I wish I had a cooler story about the first time I saw George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. I’d like to say I snuck in to see it at a midnight show in Times Square back in 1978. I’d like to say I saw it in the gloriously appropriate...