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** When him and AnnaKendrick were out together they looked like a pair of college kids, and the shyness about simply holding hands did not help.
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[[OlderThanTheyLook This guy's forty.]]]]

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With SimonPegg, QuentinTarantino and ''Bill Pope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With SimonPegg, QuentinTarantino and ''Bill Pope''.
** SimonPegg didn't just act in his films with Wright, he also co-wrote all three films in BloodAndIceCreamTrilogy.
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In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.
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* ''Don't'' - A [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] from the movie ''{{Grindhouse}}''.

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* ''Don't'' - A [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] from the movie ''{{Grindhouse}}''.''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''.
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* ''Series/{{Asylum}}

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* ''Series/{{Asylum}}''Series/{{Asylum}}''
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* ''Series/{{Asylum}}
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Is pushing forty; you couldn't tell by that (relatively recent) picture up there.
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* ''Film/AFistfulOfFingers'' - A low budget ClintEastwood parody.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' and ''Bill Pope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.
* OneOfUs: He loves movies so much, which is what you REALLY need for filmmaking. He and ''QuentinTarantino'' did a DVD commentary on ''HotFuzz''. They talked about over 200 films.

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' SimonPegg, QuentinTarantino and ''Bill Pope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.
* OneOfUs: He loves movies so much, which is what you REALLY need for filmmaking. He and ''QuentinTarantino'' QuentinTarantino did a DVD commentary on ''HotFuzz''. They talked about over 200 films.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: He was in a relationship with ''AnnaKendrick'' whom he met on Scott Pilgrim.

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* RomanceOnTheSet: He was in a relationship with ''AnnaKendrick'' Creator/AnnaKendrick whom he met on Scott Pilgrim.

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* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' - Surreal BritCom about a writer and a comic book artist living in a flat. Brimming with references to other TV shows and movies.



* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' - Surreal BritCom about a writer and a comic book artist living in a flat. Brimming with references to other TV shows and movies.



* ''Film/{{Ant-Man}}'' - Based in the Marvel universe, about a man who can change sizes.

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* ''Film/{{Ant-Man}}'' - Based in the Marvel universe, MarvelCinematicUniverse, about a man who can change sizes.
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin'' - He has a writing credit along with {{Steven Moffat}} and Joe Cornish.

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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin'' - He has a writing credit along with {{Steven Moffat}} and [[TheAdamAndJoeShow Joe Cornish.Cornish]].
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* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.

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* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood [[AlienBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.
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* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''TheWorld'sEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.

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* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''TheWorld'sEnd'' ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.
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'''Edgar Wright''' is a British director known for making stylish, genre-busting films, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. He is also known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories. He is [[OneofUs one of us], a very notable example of a film geek-come-director.

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'''Edgar Wright''' is a British director known for making stylish, genre-busting films, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. He is also known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories. He is [[OneofUs one of us], us]], a very notable example of a film geek-come-director.



* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''TheWorldsEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.

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* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''TheWorldsEnd'' ''TheWorld'sEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.
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'''Edgar Wright''' is a British director known for making some of the funniest movies in recent times, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. He's also well known for being [[OneofUs one of us]]. He is known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories.

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'''Edgar Wright''' is a British director known for making some of the funniest movies in recent times, stylish, genre-busting films, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. He's also well known for being [[OneofUs one of us]]. He is also known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories.
stories. He is [[OneofUs one of us], a very notable example of a film geek-come-director.



* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book.

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* {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''TheWorldsEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[BlackBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.
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* HetrosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' and ''Bill Pope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.

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* HetrosexualLifePartners: HeterosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' and ''Bill Pope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.
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* Gorn: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book.
* HetrosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' and ''BillPope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.

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* Gorn: {{Gorn}}: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book.
* HetrosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' and ''BillPope''.''Bill Pope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.
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* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' - A group of friends from childhood reunite to finish their epic pub crawl only to find their old town invaded by aliens.

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* ''Film/DeadRight'' - ''HotFuzz'' without the budget and with more [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]].



* ''Film/DeadRight'' - ''HotFuzz'' without the budget and with more [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]].
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* RomanceOnTheSet: He was in a relationship with ''AnnaKendrick'' whom he met on Scott Pilgrim.
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* HoYay: See above. Also, the bromance of Shaun and Ed in ''ShaunOfTheDead'', Angel and Danny in ''HotFuzz'' and Wallace and any man he can get his hands on in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''.




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* ShoutOut: His films are full of these.
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* AssortedFanboy: That's why he got into filmmaking in the first place.

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* AssortedFanboy: AscendedFanboy: That's why he got into filmmaking in the first place.



* OneOfUs: He loves movies so much, that him and ''QuentinTarantino'' did a DVD commentary on ''HotFuzz''. They talked about over 200 films.
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* OneOfUs: He loves movies so much, that him which is what you REALLY need for filmmaking. He and ''QuentinTarantino'' did a DVD commentary on ''HotFuzz''. They talked about over 200 films.
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* Fanboy: That's why he got into filmmaking in the first place.

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* Fanboy: AssortedFanboy: That's why he got into filmmaking in the first place.
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* Fanboy: That's why he got into filmmaking in the first place.
* Gorn: ''ShaunOfTheDead'', ''HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book.
* HetrosexualLifePartners: With ''SimonPegg'', ''QuentinTarantino'' and ''BillPope''. In the Making of Scott Pilgrim, he says that "Bill Pope is one of my favourite people ever. Bill, if you're watching this, I love you." And at the end of his and Bill's Scott Pilgrim DVD commentary, he says "And now Bill and I are gonna make out." with some kissing sounds.
* HoYay: See above. Also, the bromance of Shaun and Ed in ''ShaunOfTheDead'', Angel and Danny in ''HotFuzz'' and Wallace and any man he can get his hands on in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''.
* OneOfUs: He loves movies so much, that him and ''QuentinTarantino'' did a DVD commentary on ''HotFuzz''. They talked about over 200 films.
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* ''DeadRight'' - ''HotFuzz'' without the budget and with more [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]].

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* ''DeadRight'' ''Film/DeadRight'' - ''HotFuzz'' without the budget and with more [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]].
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A British director known for making some of the funniest movies in recent times, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. Is also well known for being [[OneofUs one of us]]. He is known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories.

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A '''Edgar Wright''' is a British director known for making some of the funniest movies in recent times, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. Is He's also well known for being [[OneofUs one of us]]. He is known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories.

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* ''{{The Adventures of Tintin}}'' - He has writing credit along with {{Steven Moffat}} and Joe Cornish.

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* ''{{The Adventures of Tintin}}'' ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin'' - He has a writing credit along with {{Steven Moffat}} and Joe Cornish.
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->''Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.''

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->''Everything ->''"Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.''
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* ''ShaunOfTheDead'' - Guy tries to rescue his friends from zombies. He fails. [[spoiler: Mostly.]]
* ''HotFuzz'' - Skilled cop is sent to a sleepy town where no murders, but many [[BlatantLies accidents]] happen.
* ''{{Spaced}}'' - Surreal BritCom about a writer and a comic book artist living in a flat. Brimming with references to other TV shows and movies.

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* ''ShaunOfTheDead'' ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' - Guy tries to rescue his friends from zombies. He fails. [[spoiler: Mostly.]]
* ''HotFuzz'' ''Film/HotFuzz'' - Skilled cop is sent to a sleepy town where no murders, but many [[BlatantLies accidents]] happen.
* ''{{Spaced}}'' ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' - Surreal BritCom about a writer and a comic book artist living in a flat. Brimming with references to other TV shows and movies.



* ''{{Ant-Man}}'' - Based in the Marvel universe, about a man who can change sizes.

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* ''{{Ant-Man}}'' ''Film/{{Ant-Man}}'' - Based in the Marvel universe, about a man who can change sizes.
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->''Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.''

A British director known for making some of the funniest movies in recent times, usually working with {{Simon Pegg}} and Nick Frost. Is also well known for being [[OneofUs one of us]]. He is known for his surprising talent of making films that equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories.

Directed:
* ''ShaunOfTheDead'' - Guy tries to rescue his friends from zombies. He fails. [[spoiler: Mostly.]]
* ''HotFuzz'' - Skilled cop is sent to a sleepy town where no murders, but many [[BlatantLies accidents]] happen.
* ''{{Spaced}}'' - Surreal BritCom about a writer and a comic book artist living in a flat. Brimming with references to other TV shows and movies.
* ''DeadRight'' - ''HotFuzz'' without the budget and with more [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]].
* ''Don't'' - A [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] from the movie ''{{Grindhouse}}''.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' - An [[TheFilmOfTheBook adaptation]] of the comic by Bryan Lee O'Malley.
* ''{{Ant-Man}}'' - Based in the Marvel universe, about a man who can change sizes.

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* ''{{The Adventures of Tintin}}'' - He has writing credit along with {{Steven Moffat}} and Joe Cornish.
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