Re: [?] Edgar Wright turns down chance to direct episode of Walking Dead

I think it's the difference between movies and TV. In movies, even if you're doing a sequel, you have a lot more control over the project than you do as a director of TV show. Like Wright said, you don't want to come in and screw things up. You screw up a movie, it was yours and you take responsibility. If you screw up a series, you're hurting someone else's baby and they pay for your transgressions. At least that's how I read Wright's comments. 
 
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From: Johne Cook <[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:37 PM
Subject: [DADL-OT] [?] Edgar Wright turns down chance to direct episode of Walking Dead


So, Paul, as our resident Zombieologist, does this make any sense to you? 'Cause I'm scratching my thick little head over this one...

http://blastr.com/2011/03/why-edgar-wright-refused.php


Why Edgar Wright refused to direct an episode of Walking Dead 
What do you do when Frank Darabont offers you a chance to direct an episode of AMC's hit zombie series The Walking Dead? If you're Edgar Wright, you say no, of course. 
>Yep, you heard right. He said no.
>With cult hit movies like the zombie-filled horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead (he couldn't have asked for a more perfect calling card with that one), Hot Fuzz and, most recently, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright has definitely making a name for himself in the geek world.
>But before doing awesome movies, Wright also did some great TV—a little cult show called Spaced with his eternal buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. And he almost got lured back to genre TV when he was asked to direct an episode of The Walking Dead by Frank Darabont himself. 
>"Frank asked me to do a Walking Dead, actually," Wright explains, "But I feel that there's some subject matter that, like, even though it'd be great—and I love that show, I actually watched four of the six episodes uninterrupted in one run, it was like zombie Pringles—I think that with something like that, with some TV shows, you wanna be in on the ground floor." 
>So why did Wright say no to that deliciously tempting offer? "Well, I really enjoyed the first season, and I wouldn't wanna be the guy that comes in and @&#!s it up."
>Wouldn't it have been great to see what the Shaun of the Dead director would have made of an episode of The Walking Dead? Oh well ... maybe he'll change his mind for season two.

The only reason I watched Shaun of the Dead was because Paul raved about it so (and rightly so, as it turns out). But other than SotD and Zombieland, I have little use for zombies as they make no blessed sense to me. In fact, I tend to only like zombie pictures when they movies are about something other than zombies (in SotD, the movie was about the pub-crawling slackers more than the zombies, and in Zombieland, the movie was more about Twinkies). So why would Edgar Wright, who's able to do practically anything well (despite ticket sales for Scott Pilgram), turn down a chance to helm a zombie-related show he clearly enjoys? It would be like Joss Whedon turning down The Avengers (which he didn't do). Does Edgar's reasoning as-stated track with you?

Johne Cook
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