Edgar Wright - Vulture
Intelligencer
The Cut
Vulture
The Strategist
Curbed
Grub Street
Magazine
Subscribe to the Magazine
Give a Gift Subscription
Buy Back Issues
Current Issue Contents
New York
Shop
Subscribe
Sign In
Account
Profile
Sign Out
Menu
Menu
Close
Close
TV Recaps
TV
Movies
Comedy
Music
What to Stream
Books
Theater
Art
Awards Coverage
Podcasts
Criticism
About
Newsletters
Cinematrix Archive
Vulture Festival
Like Us
Follow Us
Follow Us
NYMag.com
New York Magazine
Intelligencer
Vulture
The Cut
The Strategist
Grub Street
Curbed
Search
Search
Close
Subscribe
Give A
Gift
Menu
Menu
Close
Close
TV Recaps
TV
Movies
Comedy
Music
What to Stream
Books
Theater
Art
Awards Coverage
Podcasts
Criticism
About
Newsletters
Cinematrix Archive
Vulture Festival
Like Us
Follow Us
Follow Us
NYMag.com
New York Magazine
Intelligencer
Vulture
The Cut
The Strategist
Grub Street
Curbed
Search
Search
Close
Displaying all articles tagged:
Edgar Wright
training season
Apr. 11, 2024
Good Luck to Glen Powell’s Calves
He’s starring in Edgar Wright’s adaptation of
The Running Man
.
By
Jennifer Zhan
oh yeah?
Aug. 16, 2023
Scott Pilgrim
Gets an Extra Life As an Anime, and the Whole Cast Is Back
Make some noise for the teaser, people.
By
Rebecca Alter
edgar wright
Nov. 1, 2021
How
Last Night in Soho
Re-created Swinging-’60s London
“It became a war of attrition,” explains director Edgar Wright, “to push the modern world out with tons of period extras and cars.”
By
Chris Lee
movie review
Oct. 29, 2021
Last Night in Soho
Is a Mostly Intoxicating Affair
Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie, Edgar Wright’s freewheeling, pop-drenched homage to Swinging London is buoyant and brutal.
By
Bilge Ebiri
you gotta listen to this
Sept. 13, 2021
Last Night in Soho
Is Edgar Wright’s Love Letter to Swinging ’60s Sounds
Rather than simply trotting out the old hits,
Last Night in Soho
has fun putting its own spin on period classics.
By
Nate Jones
trailer mix
Sept. 8, 2021
Edgar Wright’s
Last Night in Soho
Looks Both Groovy and Spooky
*Austin Powers voice* Oh, beehive!
By
Rebecca Alter
trailer mix
May 14, 2021
Sparks Get a Hero’s and Weirdo’s Welcome in Edgar Wright’s Documentary Trailer
“All pop music is rearranged Sparks, that’s the truth.”
By
Devon Ivie
movies
Feb. 19, 2021
Edgar Wright Chases Down a New Adaptation of Stephen King’s
The Running Man
And will adapt the 1982 novel for Paramount Pictures.
By
Halle Kiefer
sundance 2021
Feb. 2, 2021
Meeting the Greatest Band You’ve (Maybe) Never Heard Of
Edgar Wright and the band Sparks talk about making the director’s new documentary,
The Sparks Brothers.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
coronavirus
Mar. 23, 2020
For Edgar Wright, Every Day Is a Zombie Fantasy Now
The writer of two apocalyptic comedies explains what life in quarantine is like in London.
By
Edgar Wright
As told to
Bilge Ebiri
coronavirus
Mar. 23, 2020
‘This Is the Apocalypse That Has Been on the Horizon for a Long Time’
Alex Ross Perry, Kris Rey, TT the Artist and more filmmakers on watching their latest movies, and their industry at large, fall to a pandemic.
By
Charles Bramesco
casting
Feb. 4, 2019
Edgar Wright Recruits Anya Taylor-Joy For Horror Movie
Last Night in Soho
But there are few other details to share.
By
Jordan Crucchiola
happy halloween
Oct. 28, 2017
The Funny Reason Why Austin Powers Masks Are Selling Out for Halloween This Year
Yeah baby, yeah! Great costume choice!
By
Devon Ivie
Aug. 16, 2017
Edgar Wright on
Baby Driver
Blowing Past $100 Million and
Baby Driver 2
“It’s not that studios need to take more gambles on original movies. It’s that they should stop
thinking
about original movies as gambles.”
By
Kyle Buchanan
denials
July 25, 2017
James Gunn Wants It Made Perfectly Clear He Does Not Have Sex With Raccoons
So just don’t even think about that.
By
Jordan Crucchiola
sequels forever
July 5, 2017
Edgar Wright Is Weighing a
Baby Driver
Sequel at Sony’s Behest
“I think there’s somewhere more to go with it in terms of the characters.”
By
Hunter Harris
June 30, 2017
Edgar Wright’s Forgotten Film Debut ‘A Fistful of Fingers’
Edgar Wright’s newest film Baby Driver is out this week, and if early reviews are any indication, it can easily stand alongside his previously […]
By
Ramsey Ess
June 28, 2017
Talking ‘Baby Driver’ and the Art of Visual Comedy with Edgar Wright
Few mainstream filmmakers treat the full range of cinema as their playground quite like Edgar Wright does. With each film he releases, the […]
By
Erik Abriss
June 27, 2017
Edgar Wright Explains His Favorite Musical Moments in His Own Films
“Sometimes, if an old song doesn’t have a music video, you start to imagine. But you don’t listen to ‘Thriller’ and think, I’ve got a great idea!”
By
Abraham Riesman
June 26, 2017
Why Edgar Wright Makes Some of the Best Movie Soundtracks
▶️ In the heist film
Baby Driver
, Wright uses his favorite trick again: The characters in his films can hear the music as well.
By
Granger Willson
comings and goings
June 24, 2017
Edgar Wright Opens Up About the ‘Heartbreaking Decision’ to Leave
Ant-Man
What could’ve been.
By
Devon Ivie
movie review
June 21, 2017
Movie Review: Edgar Wright’s
Baby Driver
Is a Cinematic Joyride
This is the first thriller I’ve seen in a long time that feels handmade.
By
David Edelstein
vulture festival
May 20, 2017
Edgar Wright Won’t Use Green Screens for His Car Chases, Thank You Very Much
Unlike certain
other
action directors.
By
Devon Ivie
vulture festival 2017
May 1, 2017
Neil Patrick Harris, Cat Power, Edgar Wright, and More Join Vulture Festival
The lineup keeps getting bigger and better.
By
Vulture Editors
sxsw 2017
Mar. 12, 2017
Everyone at SXSW Agrees Edgar Wright’s
Baby Driver
Is Awesome
Edgar Wright delivers a headbanger of a heist extravaganza.
By
Jada Yuan
trailer mix
Mar. 12, 2017
Baby Driver
Trailer: Edgar Wright Takes on Dumb Names and Fast Cars
Ansel Elgort is … Baby.
By
Karen Brill
sxsw 2017
Jan. 31, 2017
SXSW 2017 Film Festival: Malick, Apatow, & More
Malick’s
Song to Song
stars Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman.
By
Tolly Wright
in development
Nov. 19, 2015
Edgar Wright to Direct an Animated Film About Shadows; It Sounds a Little Shady
DreamWorks plus Edgar Wright equals good idea.
By
Emma Barrie
Nov. 19, 2015
Edgar Wright’s First Animated Film Will Be All About Shadows
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and The World’s End director Edgar Wright just signed on to direct his first animated film. According to The […]
By
Megh Wright
milk
Oct. 24, 2015
Edgar Wright + Johnny Depp + Neil Gaiman = Movie
So, the people behind
Scott Pilgrim
,
Flight of the Conchords
,
Sandman
, and
Mortdecai
.
By
Greg Cwik
the industry
Oct. 21, 2015
Hamm Joins Wright’s
Baby Driver
as Villain
Bad Hamm!
By
Sean Fitz-Gerald
Aug. 7, 2015
The ‘TCGS’ Twinterns Pitch Female-Centric Movie Ideas to Amy Poehler (and […]
As the saying goes, the third time’s the charm, and after some practice with Bill Hader and Judd Apatow, The Chris Gethard Show’s twinterns […]
By
Megh Wright
summer movie preview 2015
Apr. 8, 2015
A Timeline of
Ant-Man
’s Troubled Production History [Updated]
Ant-Man
’s protagonist may be tiny, but the hurdles the film has faced are undeniably large.
By
Abraham Riesman
party chat
Jan. 12, 2015
Edgar Wright’s New Project Came From Facebook
Also, we attempted to ask him about that
Ant-Man
trailer.
By
Kyle Buchanan
movies
Oct. 23, 2014
Celebrities Can’t Stop Bragging About Seeing
Interstellar
Even the guy from
Ugly Betty
!
By
Nate Jones
videology
Oct. 7, 2014
Pharrell’s ‘Gust of Wind’ Video Is Great for Fall
It was also directed by Edgar Wright.
By
Lindsey Weber
July 24, 2014
Edgar Wright Has His Next Film Project Lined Up with ‘Baby Driver’
It’s been just over two months since Edgar Wright made the unfortunate announcement that he was no longer directing Marvel’s Ant-Man, but […]
By
Megh Wright
June 16, 2014
Simon Pegg on Edgar Wright Leaving Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’: ‘It’s Their Loss’
“I think it’s a terrible shame. I think I get why perhaps it’s happened – I think maybe they want a particular thing in line with a particular […]
By
Megh Wright
May 30, 2014
Marvel Looks to Adam McKay and Other Comedy Directors to Replace Edgar […]
In the wake of director Edgar Wright’s departure from Marvel’s Ant-Man movie, THR reports that the studio is now considering a new set of […]
By
Megh Wright
May 28, 2014
Edgar Wright Reportedly Left ‘Ant-Man’ Over Marvel’s Script Rewrites
THR has some more details about why director Edgar Wright decided to leave Marvel’s Ant-Man project, and they’re not all that surprising […]
By
Megh Wright
May 27, 2014
Here’s a Crash Course in Visual Comedy, Focused on the Work of Edgar Wright
Here’s a video essay made by movie fan Tony Zhou, in which he dissects the techniques that make up director Edgar Wright’s unique visual style […]
By
Bradford Evans
May 27, 2014
Edgar Wright Compares Self to Buster Keaton in Deleted ‘Ant-Man’ Tweet
On Friday, Marvel and director Edgar Wright announced that they were parting ways on the upcoming superhero movie Ant-Man. No official reason, […]
By
Bradford Evans
breaking up is hard to do
May 27, 2014
See Edgar Wright’s Response to His
Ant-Man
Departure
See the photo of Buster Keaton he quickly tweeted, than deleted.
By
Jesse David Fox
departures
May 24, 2014
Edgar Wright Is No Longer Directing
Ant-Man
There were some creative differences.
By
Caroline Bankoff
May 23, 2014
Edgar Wright Is No Longer Directing Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’
Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, The World’s End) is leaving Marvel’s Ant-Man. Here’s the statement from Marvel and Wright announcing […]
By
Bradford Evans
film school
Jan. 29, 2014
Watch Edgar Wright Discuss Mastering the Close-up
Close-ups close up.
By
Jesse David Fox
Dec. 19, 2013
Paul Rudd to Star in Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ for Director Edgar Wright
Paul Rudd is Marvel’s next big-screen superhero. According to Variety, Rudd is now in early negotiations to star in the upcoming Ant-Man movie […]
By
Megh Wright
Nov. 20, 2013
Here’s the Gag Reel for ‘The World’s End’
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright’s latest movie, The World’s End, came out on home video this week, and
By
Bradford Evans
casting couch
Oct. 15, 2013
It’s Down to Paul Rudd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt for
Ant-Man
Edgar Wright has interesting taste in superheroes.
By
Jesse David Fox
directors
Aug. 26, 2013
Edgar Wright Is the Patron Saint of Fanboy Culture
Between
Shaun of the Dead
,
Hot Fuzz
,
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
, and
The World’s End
, Wright has crafted a canon that’s the apex of fanboydom.
By
Nick Schager
Load More