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Edgar Wright Dead Right

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If you are a fan of Edgar Wright then you need to watch his student short film called Dead Right . A rather enjoyable 1993 film written, directed, edited & produced with a budget of roughly £275 by a then-young british filmmaker Edgar Wright, whom is known for directing Last Night in Soho (2021), The Sparks Brothers (2021), Baby Driver (2017), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), The World’s End (2013), Spaced (TV series), etc. Dead Right is an early short film by Edgar Wright, later famous for the TV programme Spaced and the film Shaun of the Dead . It was filmed in 1992 and 1993 in his hometown of Wells, England when Wright was only 18. He wrote, edited, produced and directed the film as well as shooting and recording the sound. It is a Zucker Brothers-style comedy that parodies the action thriller genre, most notably the Dirty Harry series ( Dead Right was the working title for the original Dirty Harry ). The film is shot on SVHS and contains an impressive cast of 70 actors (mostly amateur), mainly made up of Wright’s school friends and colleagues. Clips from the film were first broadcast on Take Over TV – the Channel 4 series consisting…

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