How Edgar Wright makes original movies in an industry obsessed with franchises

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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KCRW revisits its conversation with filmmaker Edgar Wright. His music documentary “The Sparks Brothers” celebrates two musicians whose work he loves. Ron and Russell Mael are brothers who make up the band Sparks, and they’re a pair of complete originals. Wright is an original, too. His hit movie “Baby Driver” and upcoming thriller “Last Night in Soho” are based on ideas he made up. And he can’t help but wonder why movie studios aren’t willing to take a few more chances on fresh ideas. Plus, KCRW has fresh banter about internal strife at Netflix, HBO Max numbers, and IATSE. The below-the-line Hollywood union has a contract, but will its members ratify it?

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:05.0	Today we revisit our conversation with filmmaker Edgar Wright.
0:08.5	His music documentary from earlier this year celebrates two musicians whose work he loves,
0:14.3	The Enigmatic Sparks Brothers, a pair of complete originals.
0:18.4	Wright is an original, too.
0:20.1	His biggest hit, Baby Driver, and newest film,
0:23.4	Last Night in Soho, are based on Stuffy Made Up.
0:27.0	And he can't help but wonder why movie studios
0:29.1	aren't willing to take just a few more chances on fresh ideas.
0:33.1	I feel like as a sort of film fan,
0:34.9	I've grown out of franchises because,
0:37.5	no disrespect to the films, I just kind of think,
0:39.8	you know, I don't really need to see another X-Men film
0:41.9	in my lifetime.
0:42.9	I'm good.
0:43.5	I don't need one every two years.
0:44.7	I'm good.
0:45.4	Wright explains how fellow filmmaker Phil Lord
0:47.9	inspired him to turn his obsession
0:49.9	with the Sparks Brothers into a documentary.
0:52.4	And he talks about walking away from a gig as the writer and director of Marvel's
0:56.0	Ant Man in 2014.
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