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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).
After dying in a freak treadmill accident, mild-mannered slacker Doug Bellamy wakes up in the afterlife—not in heaven or hell, but in the soul-sucking offices of Reaper Inc., the bureaucratic agency responsible for collecting and processing the dead. Mistaken for a new employee due to a clerical error, Doug is assigned a cubicle, a scythe, and a quota. With no training and even less motivation, he starts bending the rules—accidentally saving lives, skipping pickups, and causing widespread glitches between the living and the dead. As ghost sightings, near-death resurrections, and existential paperwork pile up, Doug teams up with Val, a sardonic veteran reaper, to fix the mess before he's audited out of existence. But the deeper they dig into Reaper Inc.’s soul-shuffling system, the more they uncover a cosmic conspiracy buried beneath centuries of red tape. Now, Doug must choose: restore order to the afterlife… or blow it all up and reboot death itself.
