2. Edgar Wright (38)
Filmography Shaun Of The Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010), The Worlds End (2013). By securing work on a number of television shows in the mid to late 90s, Edgar Wright became part of a new wave of individuals in the British comedy industry who have since gone on to great heights, including Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, with whom he would team to create what is perhaps the most underrated sitcom of the modern era. This was Spaced, a love letter to several aspects of popular culture that went sorely unnoticed by many. Fortunately, the next collaboration between Wright, Pegg and Nick Frost (who co-starred in Spaced) would attract a much wider audience. Described as a romantic zombie comedy (or Rom-Zom-Com), 2004s Shaun Of The Dead combined traditional British comedy with elements of American horror to surprising effect. A follow-up, Hot Fuzz, which satirised the buddy cop genre of action movies, was released as the second part of the Blood and Ice Cream (named for each films level of violence and inclusion of Cornettos) trilogy in 2007 whilst the third part, The Worlds End, will finally be released this year, this time focusing on the genre of science fiction. Between Hot Fuzz and The Worlds End, Wright helmed his first Hollywood production, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, an adaptation of the cult series of graphic novels that struggled to set the box office alight despite being a faithful take on the source material. Despite this, he has been recently signed by Marvel (following his shooting of an allegedly impressive concept) to direct an adaptation of Ant-Man that will follow The Avengers II in 2015.