Edgar Wright: the man behind The Running Man returns! (The Running Man / Baby Driver / Scott Pilgrim) #644
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined once more by the phenomenal director and true film lover EDGAR WRIGHT!
Edgar is what we call a friend of the podcast. He can come and sleep on the couch at a moment's notice, we'll help him move house, drive him to the airport, whatever he wants. And in turn he is also your friend! You don't have to do all that extra stuff tho, don't worry. Edgar is a genuine treasure in the filmmaking world, a true collaborator and someone who carries a permament mark of quality - you can trust anything that comes with Edgar's name attached. So it's a pleasure to bring him back to DPP especially when The Running Man is in full promo frenzy mode... Of course you'll get to hear all about the process of bringing that one to screen, the Easter eggs, nuggets, behind the scenes goodies (including getting Arnie's blessing for Arniebucks), as well as all the movie science you will have come to expect and enjoy from him. Pure entertainment - go ahead and enjoy AND of course go see The Running Man!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is The Distraction Pieces Podcast, episode 64. And this week I'm |
| 0:07.7 | joined by a legend. A returning guest. It's Mr. Edgar, right? I love Edgar. I've known Edgar for a while. |
| 0:14.6 | I've been a fan of Edgar even longer. And when it was announced, he was doing a new adaptation |
| 0:20.7 | of the book, The Running Man. I was very excited. And yeah, I was like, we need to do a podcast. This has to happen. We need to talk about it all. And boy, did he deliver. This is a great chat. This is a great chat, I'm telling you. This is your first time tuning in. Obviously, head back and listen to the multiple times. Nick Frost or Simon Pegg have been on if you want. Also, |
| 0:42.4 | we talk about a stunt, a former stunt actor turned actor called Aisha Hussein, who was, |
| 0:48.3 | who's part of the stunt team in The Running Man, and was on the podcast earlier this year. So if |
| 0:52.9 | you're specifically into The Running Man, go back and listen to that episode. It's really good fun. But yeah, rather than that, you're in for an absolute treat. I swear to God, you're in for an absolute treat. And you know what? I'll tell you there's another treat. I don't normally throw ahead to next week's episode, but here's another treat. I'm going to tell you who's on next week's episode. Next week, |
| 1:11.2 | I'm talking to Alex Winter, aka Bill from Bill and Ted, which is wild. It's a hell of a chat. |
| 1:18.5 | It's just good chat after good chat at the moment. We're having a hell of a time over here on |
| 1:23.2 | the distraction pieces podcast. I'll tell you where else we're having a hell of a time over at |
| 1:27.2 | speech development of records.com. We've got loads of things reduced, perfect for Christmas |
| 1:32.5 | presents and general winter goodies. Head over there, buy some good stuff and support the |
| 1:38.8 | podcast at the same time. Or head to patreon.com forward slash scrupiousbip, who already knew |
| 1:44.0 | that Edgar was on this week and that already knew that edgar was on this week |
| 1:45.6 | and that bill from bill and ted was on next week and they know who's on the week after because they've been told |
| 1:50.7 | patron you can you can actually follow the patron for free so head over there and then twitch. |
| 1:57.2 | Twitch.tv.tv. forward slash scrupius pipio another place that you can follow for free and come and be part of and watch. |
| 2:06.0 | Numerous members of the Twitch community have ended up as guests on the podcast. How mad's that? |
| 2:11.5 | So come and be part of that. |
| 2:12.9 | Yeah, how many now? |
| 2:14.0 | We've had Barmer, we've had Terry Burns, we've had Zelia, we've had 1030, we've |
| 2:18.3 | had loads. It's a right treat. Let's get on with the podcast, shall we? Because Edgar's just, |
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