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When Edgar Wright makes a film, he takes the audience on a journey. His filmography demonstrates influences from some of the greats, like Sergio Leone, George Romero and Clint Eastwood. Wright is a film and music lover who focuses that love on the films that he creates. From this, he creates shining homages in original bodies of work.

Edgar Wright has made a name for himself through his successful Cornetto Trilogy. From there, he went on to become one of the most prestigious directors in Hollywood. Wright stays consistent with a very unique director's style all while continually evolving in the content created.

A Fistful of Fingers Is Edgar Wrights Take on a Spaghetti Western 1995

A Fistful of Fingers Critical Reception

Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score

53%

IMDb Score

5.8/10

A Fistful of Fingers is Edgar Wright's directorial debut. The film follows a cowboy hunting a wanted man who killed his horse.

Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, criticizes Hollywood's habit of releasing franchise films too close together and believes that franchises should take a break to build anticipation. While not directly mentioning the MCU, Wright suggests that studios like Marvel should be cautious about announcing too many films and TV shows at once and risk "killing the golden goose." Wright points to James Bond as a legacy franchise that understands the importance of pausing and building anticipation, and wishes more films and series would follow suit. He is currently working on a reboot of The Running Man that will stay more faithful to the source material.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has become a cult classic since its release in 2010, and with the recent debut of Netflix's new anime series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the franchise is being introduced to a whole new generation of viewers that...

The Cornetto Trilogy stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who play best friends in every movie, but they aren't the only actors who appear in all three movies. The trilogy is known for its sense of humor, visual comedy, and the performances of its cast, with maturity being a main theme across all movies. Other actors who appear in every movie include Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Rafe Spall, Julie Deakin, Patricia Franklin, and Garth Jennings.

The Cornetto Trilogy stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who play best friends in every movie, but they aren’t the only actors who appear in all three movies. After his debut movie A Fistful of Fingers in 1995, director and writer Edgar Wright brought Shaun of the Dead in 2004. Shaun of the Dead is a zombie comedy set during the zombie apocalypse and follows best friends Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Frost) as they lead their...

In 2008, the second season of “30 Rock” tied the record set by “The Cosby Show” in 1986 for earning most same-year comedic performing bids at nine. One year later, the Tina Fey-led sitcom raised that bar to its current position of 10, which no traditional comedy series was able to touch until “Ted Lasso” did so this year. Half of the 10 actors nominated for the Apple TV+ show’s second season were also recognized for its first year, while four of the remaining five are total Emmy newcomers. Included in the latter subset is guest competitor James Lance, whose first TV academy notice has come three decades into his career.

To date, Lance has appeared as Independent reporter Trent Crimm in 10 “Ted Lasso” episodes. He is presently nominated in the Best Comedy Guest Actor category for his performance in the second season finale, entitled “Inverting the Pyramid of Success.” Set after...

Edgar Wright technically made his directorial debut with a western spoof entitled A Fistful of Fingers, but that movie didn’t get shown in a lot of theaters and it’s currently unavailable, so many fans consider the director’s first feature to be Shaun of the Dead, the zombie-infested romantic comedy that kicked off the fabled Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy.

Related: Edgar Wright: 5 Reasons Why Shaun Of The Dead Is His Best Genre Riff (& 5 Why Hot Fuzz Is A Close Second)

Many of the hallmarks of Wright’s now-iconic filmmaking style first appeared in Shaun of the Dead. Actually, they first appeared in Spaced, but they were given their big screen debut in Shaun of the Dead. The zom-rom-com established Wright as a unique new voice in filmmaking.

Edgar Wright is one of the most inventive and visually dexterous filmmakers of the modern era. While his origins are humble, he has quickly ascended the Hollywood machine to become one of the most reliable filmmakers working today.

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Wright has directed five mainstream pictures (not counting his 1995 effort A Fistful of Fingers), with a sixth - a horror movie titled Last Night in Soho - coming in April of 2021. Fortunately for us all, Wright has proven just as capable a screenwriter as he is a director, and he has written (or co-written) many more. This list will be concerning both his directorial and writing output.

Genre movies are often looked down upon, but done right, they can be just as astounding and profound as any “serious” movie out there. Edgar Wright has been riffing on genre tropes throughout his entire career, from his low-budget western-spoofing debut feature A Fistful of Fingers to his most recent movie, the action-packed jukebox musical Baby Driver.

Related: Last Night In Soho: Everything We Know (So Far) About Edgar Wright's New Horror Movie

Wright’s best-known genre riffs are the installments in his “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy,” starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The trilogy’s final chapter, The World’s End, is a fantastic take on paranoid sci-fi movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but the best Cornetto movies are undeniably Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

“Shaun of the Dead” isn’t Edgar Wright’s feature directorial debut (that would be 1995’s “A Fistful of Fingers”), but it is the film that put the English writer-director on the map as one of the most original voices working in cinema. The horror comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost presented Wright with the challenge of directing dozens of zombie extras at once. In a new interview looking back at his 2004 breakthrough, Wright tells The Guardian that he only landed extras for “Shaun of the Dead” because of an open casting call appealing to fans of “Spaced,” the Channel 4 sitcom he created with Pegg.

“We wouldn’t have been able to make the film without fans of ‘Spaced,'” Wright said. “We put a call out, asking them to be our zombie extras, and the response was overwhelming. We had no money to pay them, though, and...

Edgar Wright has been one of the most creative filmmakers of the modern era. Known for his genre-bending exercise for his six-movie filmography (including his lesser known directorial debut A Fistful of Fingers), he truly made a mark for filmmakers of the next generation to push the boundaries for creativity and challenge the power of cinema.

Related: 10 Movies Where The Extended/Director's Cut Was Better Than The Original

Not exaggerating there, but on examining his techniques, one can really see how Edgar Wright managed to play with significant cinematic tropes and weave them effectively to his movies. With that, here are the ten techniques on creating the definitive Edgar Wright movie.

A very intense street fight is sweeping social media, as two men give each other the finger to infinity. Edgar Wright used the opportunity to jump in and remind everyone that his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers, which has gone unseen by many, is finally coming to Blu-ray in 2019. The street fight isn't really viral marketing, But Wright wishes it were. And now, it kind of is.

A few months ago, Edgar Wright announced that his first movie is finally coming to Blu-ray in 2019, after languishing for more than twenty years without a proper release. Many of us became familiar with Wright's work through his brilliant and beloved horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, which kicked off his Cornetto trilogy and big screen partnership with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. However, in 1995, Wright made a scrappy little indie titled Fistful of Fingers that, up to this point, has never been commercially available.

So, I’ve been hearing about ‘Baby Driver‘ for awhile, and despite all the praise it was getting; I had this sickening thought that couldn’t leave me that seem to force me to remain skeptical. I didn’t realize how skeptical I should’ve been until I started watching it though. This movie basically starts the same way that ‘Drive’ began, and it’s, basically the same story, just filtered through writer/director Edgar Wright. Yeah, Wright is the main reason I remained skeptical; in just a short time he’s developed a huge fanbase, and the guy is talented. He made ‘Hot Fuzz’ which remains one of the funniest comedies I’ve seen this decade, one that I’ve gone back to several times over. That was my first movie of his, but most people were familiar with him through ‘Shaun of the Dead‘ originally, the first of...

Matt Edwards Nov 13, 2017

Edgar Wright chats to us about making Baby Driver, A Fistful Of Fingers, Bad Boys 3 and what he's up to next...

There’s a scene in Baby Driver, Edgar Wright’s hit crime film from this summer that’s just being released on home video now, where the eponymous Baby is warned by a more experienced criminal that everyone in their game eventually ends up with blood on their hands and that it doesn’t wash off so easily. Baby plays it cool. Later Baby is given some driving gloves that are white leather on one side and red leather on the other. And, later in the movie, when he thinks he’s clear of the game he takes the gloves off, removing the red from his palms, soon to discover that blood really doesn’t wash off quite so easily.

If you’re a fan...

Mark Harrison Jul 3, 2017

Music is a vital part of Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End. We take a look in more detail right here...

This feature contains major spoilers for Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End.

Edgar Wright's films are often likened to musicals, with his precise use of editing and shot choices giving us some of the most stylish comedy films of the century. His latest, Baby Driver, isn't a comedy per se, but “a musical with car chases”, or “An American In Paris on wheels and crack smoke”, as an elated Guillermo del Toro described it on Twitter.

Centring around Ansel Elgort's Baby, a getaway driver who does his best work while listening to a personal soundtrack, it seems like the film Wright was born to make. He had the idea for the film after making his first feature,...

There are few filmmakers who engage directly with their fans and audience quite like Edgar Wright. Active both on Twitter and through his own blog, Wright is an open book when it comes to interacting with his follower. The filmmaker is usually eager to share the process as he develops whatever projects he's working on and prone to extensive conversations that go well in-depth. The latest is a one-hour masterclass featuring Wright that has made its way online. Chris Jones hosts the discussion recorded at the London Screenwriters Festival last year, and the talk ranges from Wright's observations about his first feature "A Fistful Of Fingers"; making "Shaun Of The Dead" as both the "Dawn Of The Dead" remake (released within two weeks of his zombie comedy in the U.K.) and "28 Days Later..." were brewing; his writing process and more. For fans or anyone interested in the business, it's worth making the time for.

The director's new film completes his trilogy of wistful pub-based comedies. Nostalgia is a bitter-sweet brew, he tells Alex Godfrey

When Edgar Wright was 19, he and his friends went on a pub crawl in his hometown, Wells in Somerset. "Out of 13 pubs, I managed to get through six before getting completely, wildly drunk," he laughs. "I then spent the rest of the night trying to find this girl I was going out with, forgetting she was out of town. I ran through somebody's garden into a clothesline and knocked myself out. I got a very thin purple bruise."

A couple of years later he wrote and directed his first film, A Fistful Of Fingers (tagline: The Greatest Western Ever Made … In Somerset), and followed it up with a script about his teenage pub crawl, "a big quest movie," he says. "There's a big noble sinking of the final pint followed...

Edgar Wright Takeover | A Cinema Of Songs And People: The Films Of Anand Patwardhan | Showcomotion | Pride 2013 – All Our Love

Edgar Wright Takeover, London

With the release of The World's End, the final part of Wright's "Blood & Ice Cream" trilogy, coming soon (19 Jul), the cult-friendly director stages an all-nighter. It's basically a chronological retrospective, starting with a his no-budget debut A Fistful Of Fingers. That's followed by Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. Wright introduces the event, but if it's just Blood & Ice Cream you're after, all three films play at selected Picturehouse cinemas on 27 July.

Prince Charles Cinema, WC2, Sat

A Cinema Of Songs And People: The Films Of Anand Patwardhan, London

There are the films India wants you to see – churned out prodigiously by Bollywood – and then there are the provocative documentaries of Patwardhan, which his government has routinely tried to suppress and censor.

If you’ve ever seen a proper in-depth interview with a stand-up comedian you’ve probably come across the concept of ‘corporate gigs’ – shows where, as opposed to playing The Comedy Store or the Hammersmith Apollo or a festival, they do a set at the British Legal Awards or the GlaxoSmithKline Christmas party in exchange for a massive payday. Toning down your act might for the suits might not be something that’s in your game plan of being the new Bill Hicks, but they’re a guaranteed source of income when you’re losing money on your self-funded Edinburgh show or your critically acclaimed late-night BBC2 show has just been cancelled.

It’s a concept that’s now hit the moving picture industry. In the early 2000s BMW produced The Hire, a series of big-budget ten minute shorts, starring Clive Owen in a rather obvious knock off of The Transporter movies,...

We all know the importance of the director, they are the heart and soul of a film (in layman terms… we don’t want to go into the auteur theory here) and few have careers that flourish decade after decade, yet the Spielberg’s and the Scorsese’s are still going strong.

The future of cinema is folly to guess, but below are a list of ten of the best visionaries in the industry from the past eleven years, filmmakers I hope go on to define the 21st century. I’ve decided to look back on the last decade, and moving forward into the current, to see what filmmakers have made the greatest impressions and gone on to take the world by storm, with the future of cinema in the back of my mind.

Here’s a look at what new talent I think has grown and will flourish from...

Forgotten Films [1] is a semi-regular feature on Film Junk where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years. You probably know Edgar Wright as the man behind the camera for most of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's collaborations including Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and even before that, the TV show Spaced. However, with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World coming out this weekend, I thought it would be a good time to look back at his very first feature film, a hard-to-find low budget comedy made without Pegg and Frost called A Fistful of Fingers. Edgar Wright got his start making movies in England at a very young age, and by the time he was 18, he was already generating some fairly high quality stuff. If you have the Hot Fuzz special edition DVD or Blu-ray, you may have...

It’s been Hollywood’s worst blockbuster season in years. But hope may be around the corner, as the back end of the summer schedule boasts a collection of films that may just save the season…

It's become clear, whether you're a following of reviews or box office numbers, that 2010 has marked Hollywood's most underwhelming summer for some time (since 1997, perhaps?). With only one film really delivering on expectations (that'd be Toy Story 3, although there's an argument for Twilight: Eclipse too), and most others underperforming to some degree, there are some in Hollywood who would presumably look to write this year off, learn their lessons, and then try again.

However, don't write the summer off just yet. Because the back end of the release schedule appears to have a collection of really quite interesting films. Could the ones we're about to discuss be the ones to rescue summer blockbuster season?...

[Updated with a promo spot for the event produced by, apparently, a group of Twitch readers. Thanks to Justin for passing it along! You’ll find it below the break.]

Rejoice, Toronto film fans! Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has taken up residence here in our fair city and is soon to be taking over the Bloor Cinema with a series of hosted screenings. What’s he bringing? Well, on Saturday, February 28th Wright will be hosting a night of his own work, screening a double bill of Shaun and Fuzz along with an uncut version of his Grindhouse trailer Don’t. The only thing missing is A Fistful Of Fingers, don’t hold out on us Edgar! How to follow that up? Well, the very next day Wright will be presenting - both on 35 mm - a double bill of Shaolin Soccer and legendary gore-fu flick The Story of Ricky! Pig entrails on the big screen! Hurray! As for the rest of the series, there’s still a slot or two to be filled,...