Baby Driver 2 (D: Wright)
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Baby Driver 2 (D: Wright)
JULY 05, 2017 11:42am PT by Mia Galuppo
Edgar Wright Says Sony Has Approached Him About a 'Baby Driver' Sequel
The director's movie grossed $30 million over the holiday weekend.
Baby may be getting back behind the wheel.
In an interview with Empire's film podcast, director Edgar Wright said that "the studio" has approached him about writing a sequel to his latest film, Baby Driver. Sony's TriStar Pictures released the action pic over the weekend, along with production companies MRC and Working Title.
Sony had no comment on the potential of a Baby Driver follow-up.
Still, of the possible sequel's plot, the director explained (as noted by Vulture), "I sort of have an idea that if you did another one you would subvert his involvement in the crime in a different way so he’s not kind of the apprentice anymore.”
Baby Driver stars Ansel Elgort as a conflicted getaway driver with a stacked iTunes playlist and a rotating team of bank robbers. He is hoping to get out of the business and hit the open road with his waitress girlfriend Debora (Lily James) and some Barry White.
The Baby Driver sequel would be the first time that Wright attempted a follow-up to one of his films, which include the vaguely connected Cornetto Trilogy — Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead and The World's End.
In a crowded summer box office, Baby Driver is one of the few movie options that is not a sequel or based on existing IP. It opened opposite Illumination Entertainment/Universal's third installment in the Despicable Me animated franchise and made $30 million at the domestic box office over the five-day holiday frame on a post-rebate budget of $34 million.
The action film, which had an ultra-successful SXSW world premiere, has benefited from universally positive reviews — 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an 86 score on Metacritic — with filmmakers including Guillermo del Toro taking to Twitter to laud the movie and Wright. Baby Driver has attracted a predominately younger-skewing audience with 40 percent of the total tickets sold to moviegoers under 25, which is possibly due to its online word-of-mouth buzz.
Edgar Wright Says Sony Has Approached Him About a 'Baby Driver' Sequel
The director's movie grossed $30 million over the holiday weekend.
Baby may be getting back behind the wheel.
In an interview with Empire's film podcast, director Edgar Wright said that "the studio" has approached him about writing a sequel to his latest film, Baby Driver. Sony's TriStar Pictures released the action pic over the weekend, along with production companies MRC and Working Title.
Sony had no comment on the potential of a Baby Driver follow-up.
Still, of the possible sequel's plot, the director explained (as noted by Vulture), "I sort of have an idea that if you did another one you would subvert his involvement in the crime in a different way so he’s not kind of the apprentice anymore.”
Baby Driver stars Ansel Elgort as a conflicted getaway driver with a stacked iTunes playlist and a rotating team of bank robbers. He is hoping to get out of the business and hit the open road with his waitress girlfriend Debora (Lily James) and some Barry White.
The Baby Driver sequel would be the first time that Wright attempted a follow-up to one of his films, which include the vaguely connected Cornetto Trilogy — Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead and The World's End.
In a crowded summer box office, Baby Driver is one of the few movie options that is not a sequel or based on existing IP. It opened opposite Illumination Entertainment/Universal's third installment in the Despicable Me animated franchise and made $30 million at the domestic box office over the five-day holiday frame on a post-rebate budget of $34 million.
The action film, which had an ultra-successful SXSW world premiere, has benefited from universally positive reviews — 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an 86 score on Metacritic — with filmmakers including Guillermo del Toro taking to Twitter to laud the movie and Wright. Baby Driver has attracted a predominately younger-skewing audience with 40 percent of the total tickets sold to moviegoers under 25, which is possibly due to its online word-of-mouth buzz.
07-05-17, 07:34 PM
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Yeah so... I'd watch it.
07-06-17, 09:12 AM
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It'll be a road trip movie called Miles.
07-06-17, 09:35 AM
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07-06-17, 10:25 AM
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Re: Baby Driver 2 (D: Wright)
Okay, hear me out on this -- make it a shared universe, with Baby Driver, John Wick, Taken and Crank.
It'll be bigger than The Fast and the Furious.
It'll be bigger than The Fast and the Furious.
07-06-17, 06:34 PM
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Add Clive Owen as the driver from the BMW films and you're set.
07-09-17, 04:13 PM
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Not that, please. Almost takes the movie into superhero territory. This movie should not have a sequel, let it be. That's the problem nowadays. If a movie is good and nobody sees it, then it's viewed as a failure with perhaps the potential to become a cult hit (which isn't that bad of an option given that cult hits stand the test of time rather well). If it makes back its money and is deemed a hit, then they have to make a sequel, regardless of whether or not it makes sense.
01-21-19, 10:47 AM
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A first draft of Baby Driver 2 exists,” he confirms, adding that it introduces a whole swathe of new characters following the original's high body-count, and “takes the story further”.
01-21-19, 11:20 AM
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I didn’t really care for the first one, I thought it had potential, and showed signs of promise early on, but it ultimately left me disappointed.
That said, I’d probably give the second one a shot.
That said, I’d probably give the second one a shot.
01-21-19, 12:52 PM
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Doesn't really need one, but if they go ahead with it... they need to make sure Jon Bernthal is attached.
01-21-19, 01:44 PM
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Seemed to be aimed at teenage boys.
07-29-19, 07:23 PM
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<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Will the #BabyDriver sequel ever see the light of day? @AnselElgort confirmed that director @edgarwright has told him the title, and he's seen a script: "I think it's gonna happen" pic.twitter.com/FRxIom0LCg
— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) July 25, 2019
07-30-19, 10:09 AM
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correct me if Im wrong but doesnt baby go down in a hail of bullets on the bridge at the end of the first one?
07-30-19, 10:10 AM
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I hope they get John Bernthal back.
07-30-19, 10:17 AM
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07-30-19, 10:19 AM
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