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...
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...
- 7/15/2013
- by Alex Godfrey
- The Guardian - Film News
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