Tag: Baby Driver
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Edgar Wright Says ‘Baby Driver 2’ First Draft ‘Exists’
Edgar Wright isn’t putting “Baby” in a corner just yet. The British director teased that some progress has been made on a potential sequel to “Baby Driver,” Wright’s 2017 film starring Ansel Elgort that married action, comedy, musicals and heists.“A first draft of ‘Baby Driver 2 exists,” he told Empire in a interview. Wright added…
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Jon Bernthal, Evan Peters, Charlie Plummer, Josh Gad Unite for ‘Snow Ponies’
Jon Bernthal (Baby Driver), Evan Peters (American Animals), Charlie Plummer (All the Money in the World) and Josh Gad (Beauty and the Beast) are teaming for the darkly comedic actioner Snow Ponies.The film, which is being relaunched at Afm with Sierra/Affinity looking after international sales, is being helmed by Darrin Prescott, a second unit director…
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Ansel Elgort cast in Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
The musical remake is expected to shoot next year with the Baby Driver star as male lead.Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort has reportedly been cast as the male lead in Steven Spielberg’s new screen version of classic musical West Side Story.The film, written by frequent Spielberg collaborator Tony Kushner (previously nominated for Oscars for the…
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How ‘Halloween’ Copyright Issues Led to the Best Joke in ‘Baby Driver’
Edgar Wright is a singularly talented filmmaker with a knack for balancing dynamic action scenes with comedy. And Baby Driver was the culmination of that — a heist film that played like a musical, with a fair few great jokes thrown in. But it turns out that one of the best gags of the film…
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Ed Sheeran Shares Plot Details About Upcoming Danny Boyle Musical Comedy And It Sounds Great
So, the days of everyone freaking out about what type of James Bond film filmmaker Danny Boyle was working on are long gone. Since the departure of the award-winning director from that mega-franchise, we can now focus on that little project that Boyle’s been working on in the interim, his untitled comedy/musical.Read More: Report: Danny…
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O’Shea Jackson Jr. joins Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson and Jamie Foxx in Just Mercy
THR is reporting that Straight Outta Compton star O’Shea Jackson Jr. has signed on to the cast of the legal drama Just Mercy, where he will star alongside Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther), Brie Larson (Kong: Skull Island) and Jamie Foxx (Baby Driver).Just Mercy is being directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and sees Jordan as…
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Edgar Wright’s Next Film Is a Documentary on Cult Pop-Rock Band Sparks — Exclusive
Edgar Wright is following-up “Baby Driver” with a documentary feature on the cult pop-rock band Sparks. The director confirmed to IndieWire that he’s currently gathering archival material on the band for the project, which will be his first movie since “Baby Driver” became the biggest hit of his career. Wright shot the band’s May concert…
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‘Baby Driver’ Honest Trailer: When You’re Too Much of a Hipster to Like ‘Fast and Furious’
With nearly $227 million worldwide, Baby Driver easily became Edgar Wright‘s most successful film. With a stellar soundtrack that gets your foot tapping and keeps the entire movie on a mesmerizing rhythm, it’s an exercise in expertly using sound to tell a lively story. But that doesn’t mean the Honest Trailer can’t effectively poke fun…
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‘Baby Driver’ Honest Trailer Mocks Edgar Wright’s Portrait of a Nonchalant Criminal — Watch
Three-time Oscar nominee “Baby Driver” received the dubious honor of an “Honest Trailers” parody. Tuesday’s four-minute montage teases writer-director Edgar Wright for laboring 22 years on what became his highest-grossing film ($227 million worldwide), and calls out his namesake hero (Ansel Elgort) for criminal oversights and “white-boy dancing.”Narrator Jon Bailey is less playful when reminding…
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‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Baby Driver,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Ozark’ Win Location Managers Awards
The location managers responsible for the settings of the films “Dunkirk” and “Baby Driver” and the television shows “Game of Thrones” and “Ozark” won the top awards on Saturday night from the Location Managers Guild International, which presented its fifth annual awards at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.Ben Piltz and Arnaud Kaiser won the Outstanding…