Edgar Wright’s ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Extras Went Full Zombie and Bit Him: ‘They’d Gone Feral’

Shaun of the Dead” isn’t Edgar Wright’s feature directorial debut (that would be 1995’s “A Fistful of Fingers”), but it is the film that put the English writer-director on the map as one of the most original voices working in cinema.

The horror comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost presented Wright with the challenge of directing dozens of zombie extras at once.

In a new interview looking back at his 2004 breakthrough, Wright tells The Guardian that he only landed extras for “Shaun of the Dead” because of an open casting call appealing to fans of “Spaced,” the Channel 4 sitcom he created with Pegg.“We wouldn’t have been able to make the film without fans of ‘Spaced,’” Wright said.

“We put a call out, asking them to be our zombie extras, and the response was overwhelming.

We had no money to pay them, though, and

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