On The Subject: Of Baby Driver

This closes our look at the films of Edgar Wright and the extended Cornetto Trilogy. We end with One Killer Track about Baby Driver and the culmination of everything Wright has worked on to get to this point and put our a fast paced action film full of sweet music and fun comedy.

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  • "All You Need is One Killer Track"

BOX OFFICE  Released July 2nd 2017

Budget: $34,000,000

Domestic: $107,825,862

Foreign: $119,119,225

Worldwide: $228,104,185

Opening Weekend: $20,553,320

Opened #2 run 16.3 weeks 114 days

  • Transformers: The Last Knight June 21st

  • The Big Sick June 28th

  • Despicable Me 3 June 30th

  • The House (will ferrel, amy pohler)

  • Car 3

  • Wonder Woman June 2nd

  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (July 7, a week later)

Director: Edgar Wright

Writer: Edgar Wright

Stars: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm | See full cast & crew »

  • "it’s an action film driven by music, which I think is an apt description.”- Edgar Wright

  • The idea of Baby Driver came about in 1994 when Wright was editing his 1995 debut movie A Fistful of Fingers, which was also his first solo script. At the time, he was obsessed with Spencer Blue Explosion’s “Bellbottoms” (the song that is playing during the first heist in Baby Driver) then began to imagine a car chase and bank robbery set to that song.

  • Some of the movies Wright took inspiration from for Baby Driver included Heat, Point Break, The Driver, Blues Brothers, Straight Time, Bullitt, The Warriors and even the Mad Max franchise. Wright adored how George Miller did Fury Road and credited it to his detailed planning.

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