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Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He first made independent short films before making his first feature film, A Fistful of Fingers, in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg—as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film Hot Fuzz (2007) and the science fiction comedy The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright co-wrote and directed the action comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the graphic novel series. Along with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he adapted The Adventures of Tintin (2011) for Steven Spielberg. Wright and Cornish co-wrote the screenplay for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man in 2015, which Wright intended to direct but abandoned, citing creative differences. He has also written and directed the action film Baby Driver (2017), the documentary The Sparks Brothers, and the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (both 2021).
Edgar Wright
Director
for Director in Spider-Man: Wings of Ruin
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Eleven months after the battle with Doctor Octopus, Peter Parker is ready to move on — from high school, from grief, and from the ghosts that still haunt him. Graduation week should be a fresh start: he and Gwen share a small apartment in Queens, and for once, life almost feels normal. But when a string of high-tech heists sweeps through the city, Spider-Man discovers that the culprit is Adrian Toomes, a former engineer turned black-market scavenger. Using stolen Oscorp tech, Toomes has built a winged exosuit, becoming the ruthless Vulture — a man desperate to provide for his dying daughter, no matter how many bodies he leaves behind. As Toomes’ aerial reign of terror escalates, Peter’s fragile sense of peace begins to crumble, forcing him to choose between the life he’s built and the one he can never escape. Spider-Man: Wings of Ruin is an R-rated story of desperation, morality, and the price of survival. Vulture isn’t just another criminal — he’s what Peter fears becoming: a man driven by loss, willing to destroy everything to protect what little he has left. As their war tears through New York’s skies, Peter’s double life begins to unravel, endangering Gwen and everything they’ve built together. The battle pushes Spider-Man to his limits — testing not only his body, but his soul. In a brutal final confrontation over the city skyline, Peter must face the harsh truth that even when he wins, someone always falls.
