Director Edgar Wright has many fans of his movies in Wells, where he grew up, but how many of them know that he created a fake film sequel for an alternative Spider-Man universe?

The former Stoberry and Wells Blue School student is most well-known for his Cornetto trilogy of movies - Shaun of the Dead, The World's End and Hot Fuzz, which was filmed in his home city.

However, this week the director of the animation movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has revealed the pitch he made to Edgar to ask him to create a fake Cornetto movie sequel for an alternative Spider-Man universe.

Rodney Rothman was one of the three directors of the animation from 2018, and he shared on Twitter this week the email he wrote to Edgar suggesting: "I want to do subway and bus ads for movies that don't exist in our world but theoretically could."

Here is the full email:

"Random request but maybe a fun one? I'm working on an animated Spider-Man movie…The movie is about a Spider-Man named Miles Morales — a Marvel character invented in 2011 — and it takes place in an alternate universe NYC where Peter Parker is dead.

"One of the things we're trying to do is fill our alternate New York City with same-but-different things. Like an ad for the Knicks with different colours and Steph Curry on it. Or a world where Alta Vista took over the search engine game.

"I want to do subway and bus ads for movies that don't exist in our world but theoretically could. And ideally I want to get the movie titles from the actual filmmakers — either something wholly unique off the top of your head or a title you once considered but never used, or a project you tried to get off the ground but couldn't, really whatever you want. It can be a meaningless title. Basically a movie made, written by an alternate universe version of you. Make sense?

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"What do you think? Feel like sending us one? We'll take it from there as far as artwork."

Edgar clearly liked the idea, as eagle-eyed fans of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse will spot a billboard poster to the fake Shaun of the Dead sequel From Dusk Till Shaun in Times Square.

For those who want to try and spot it, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is on today (May 9) at 5.40pm on Sky Cinema Sci-Fi and Horror.