‘Baby Driver’ Director Edgar Wright Gives Update On Potential Sequel

Edgar Wright is nearing a deal for a “Baby Driver” sequel.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Wright said that talks for a potential second installment of the action crime film, starring Ansel Elgort in the lead role, are currently underway.

“Those talks are already in the works,” Wright told the news outlet. “The deal is being hammered out as we speak. So, hopefully, I’m going to at least write a second one. I’ve definitely got lots of ideas. Whether it’s the next movie, I don’t know. I’m just working that out at the moment, actually. I have a couple of things that I’ve been developing, and also a couple of new ideas that I had, and all the nice things that I’ve been offered since [the release of ‘Baby Driver’]. I would like to get back on the saddle very shortly, because there was four years between ‘The World’s End’ and ‘Baby Driver.’ I don’t want it to be that long again. I would love to have a film out in the next two years.”

Wright first revealed that fans might have not seen the last of Elgort’s Baby when he told Empire last July that Sony’s TriStar Pictures has asked him to think about writing a sequel to the movie. Although Wright has never made a sequel before, Wright said that “Baby Driver” is something that he might do a sequel to. “I think there’s somewhere more to go with it in terms of the characters,” Wright said. “Baby has got to a new place.”

Wright continued: “Most sequels you have to contrive something so they go back to square one, unless there’s somewhere deeper for them to go. I think with ‘Baby Driver’ there’s more that you can do in that realm, and I sort of have an idea that if you did another [film] you would subvert his involvement in the crime in a different way so he’s not the apprentice anymore.”

Aside from Elgort, “Baby Driver” also stars Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm, and Jamie Foxx. According to Box Office Mojo, the film — which had a production budget of $34 million — grossed $107 million in the US box office, and $119 million in international markets.

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