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How Edgar Wright Leaving 'Ant-Man' Lead To 'Baby Driver'

Published Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:25:34 -0500

Baby Driver comes out in less than a week which means that director Edgar Wright has been making the rounds to the various news outlets. Wright was recently on Variety's Playback Podcast (via Collider) and they asked him about leaving Ant-Man after so many years of being invested in the project.

"I think the most diplomatic answer is I wanted to make a Marvel movie but I don't think they really wanted to make an Edgar Wright movie. It was a really heartbreaking decision to have to walk away after having worked on it for so long, because me and Joe Cornish in some form—it's funny some people say, 'Oh they've been working on it for eight years' and that was somewhat true, but in that time I had made three movies so it wasn't like I was working on it full time. But after The World's End I did work on it for like a year, I was gonna make the movie. But then I was the writer-director on it and then they wanted to do a draft without me, and having written all my other movies, that's a tough thing to move forward thinking if I do one of these movies I would like to be the writer-director. Suddenly becoming a director for hire on it, you're sort of less emotionally invested and you start to wonder why you're there, really."

While it's lame that we're never going to see Wright's version of the character it more or less worked out. Peyton Reed jumped on the project which was well received overall by critics and audiences alike. It also that that Wright was able to move onto Baby Driver which is looking like it could be one of the best movies of the year.

"The good thing that came out of it is I got to kind of move on to [Baby Driver], which was a script that I had already written. And maybe one of the ironies about it is I had thought in the back of my head, 'Well if the Marvel movie does well, maybe I'll have enough muscle to get Baby Driver made,' and so it's ironic I guess that I didn't make that movie and got Baby Driver made, and with a studio, which for an original movie is very rare. And the other important thing for me is almost the entirety of my crew who were gonna do that movie sort of left in solidarity, so it was really important to me to get another film going so I could kind of re-employ them all. So the funny thing about Baby Driver is it pretty much features all the [Heads of Department] who were gonna do the other movie with me."

We got a decent Ant-Man movie and now we're getting Baby Driver. It's not often that a collapsed production works out in the end but this time it really, really did.

Summary: After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Baby Driver, directed by Edgar Wright, stars Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González, and Jon Bernthal. It will be released on June 28, 2017.

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