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So yes, there's a script, but "Baby Driver 2" could still be a long way off. Wright has also been tapped to direct an adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel "The Running Man" at some point. Baby Driver is going to be one of the best movies of the year with a great cast, a fantastic director and a soundtrack that elevates the entire production. Wright's first documentary, " The Sparks Brothers," has a June release date, and the psychological thriller " Last Night in Soho," starring Anya-Taylor Joy, is set for a Halloween season release on October 22.
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He first got the idea from a music video he directed in 2002, for the band Mint Royale's single "Blue Song." (Fans of "The Great British Baking Show," one of the best British TV shows on Netflix, will recognize the driver in the video as host Noel Fielding.)Įven without that alarming precedent, Wright usually takes three to four years between features, and he already has two coming out in 2021. It took Wright 22 years to bring "Baby Driver" to the screen. I've actually written like three drafts of it."īut if you're buckling up to speed to the box office, now would be a good time to hit those brakes. Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort was recently cast as Tony, one of the leads of the film. And in January 2021, when asked about the script during an interview with Variety, Wright said, "It's written. This is everything you need to know about "Baby Driver 2," including the status on the script and what the actors think.īy 2019, he had a first draft, as he confirmed to Empire magazine. This time, however, it seems he's developed an appetite for it. Although "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz," and "The World's End" make up the Cornetto/Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy, they're standalone movies. However, despite being a veritable hit machine, Wright has never made a sequel. If you've kept track of the "Fast and Furious" timeline, you'll know that the franchise now includes approximately one million movies, not including spin-offs like "Hobbs and Shaw" (and fans were immediately asking if there will be a "Hobbs and Shaw" sequel after watching that one, too). It's not like there isn't a precedent for movies about a group of lovable criminals driving really dangerously in built-up areas through many, many sequels. The story of tinnitus-plagued getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort), whose evasive maneuvers on the road feel more like mechanical dances than rally moves, had all the heart-pumping hallmarks of action at its best, and a lot of actual heart courtesy of the love story at its center. It was previously reported that Ansel Elgort would be reprising his as the titular character for the sequel with Lily James returning as Debora and reports of both Jon Bernthal and CJ Jones returning as well.From the moment Edgar Wright's heist movie-meets-extended-car-chase "Baby Driver" accelerated onto screens in 2017, fans have been clamoring for a sequel. Wright previously confirmed that he'd written three drafts of the script to Baby Driver 2 (which was ten months ago, so perhaps another draft or two has happened). I know that we share many things in common, and that's one of them."
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We've both been in situations where we have walked away from a studio franchise movie because we weren't feeling it. My rule of thumb is you have to really want to do it. It was a conscious thing of switching gears." He continued, "The idea of doing a straight Xerox is just not interesting because, as you know, these films take at least two years and in our cases, because of the pandemic, they took even longer. And I just wasn't ready to do the same story again. " In fact, the reason I decided to do Last Night in Soho was because at the time when Baby Driver was out, it was doing an awards run and got Oscar nominations, and I was getting a lot of pressure to jump straight into doing a sequel. "I don't think I've ever done exactly the same thing twice in a row," Wright said.