Wright and Pegg had so much fun creating the zombie sequences of that episode that on the way home from filming one day, the two of them decided to write a movie. slacker series, " Spaced" in 1999, they created an episode based on Pegg's character playing too much Resident Evil 2 and hallucinating to believe everyone around him was a zombie to be dispatched. When the actor and director collaborated again for the groundbreaking U.K. "They realized they were both fascinated with zombie movies, George Romero zombie movies," author Clark Collis tells WPR's " BETA." Both had grown up utterly fascinated by the George Romero zombie classic, " Night of the Living Dead," and its sequels, " Dawn of the Dead" and " Day of the Dead." While they were working on "Asylum," the horror video game, Resident Evil, was released and the two of them discovered the other's mutual love for all things zombie. The two would finally collaborate on the 1996 mini-series, "Asylum" - a dark comedy about an assortment of English residents trapped in a countryside asylum. In the early '90s, up and coming comedian, writer and actor Simon Pegg and wunderkind television director Edgar Wright were vaguely familiar with each other's work as they circled one another in the U.K.
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