Edgar Wright
“Baby Driver” director Edgar Wright revealed why he did not film any of the movie’s car chase scenes on green screen. Pictured: Wright poses at the “Baby Driver” premiere in Los Angeles on June 14, 2017. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni

While Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver” is packed with heart-stopping car chase scenes, none of it was filmed on green screen.

In a recent interview with Collider, Wright explained why it was important for him to shoot real car chases for the movie instead of relying on CGI. “If you’re gonna do a car chase movie, you want to really be shooting cars on the streets and stuff, so I think if I’d done this in a more green screen kind of way, it just wouldn’t have been of any interest to me,” the filmmaker said. “If I’m gonna make a car movie, I wanna shoot some real car action.”

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Wright added that filming real car chases for the film allowed him to get real actor’s shots, which are basically the most important parts of an action sequence. “I think the thing that really makes the car chases is that shots of Jamie [Foxx] and Jon [Hamm] and Ansel [Elgort] and Jon Bernthal and Eiza [González] are all on real streets,” Wright said. “The vogue now is to do that stuff on green screen but I don’t really want to do that. And [that] definitely made the production more complicated because every time we do an action scene, you have to think about the actor’s shot as well.”

“It definitely made it a lot more complicated,” Wright reiterated. “But I think it’s worth its weight in gold because I think you feel these chases are really happening.”

The real car chases in “Baby Driver” is one of the things that sets it apart from other car movies out there. “It’s not ‘Fast and the Furious,’ by any means. It’s closer to ‘Ronin,’ or ‘Drive,’ or something like that,” “Baby Driver” second unit director and stunt coordinator Darrin Prescott told Entertainment Weekly. “We’ve tried to really keep everything practical and in camera. The great thing about this is, all the driving that people are going to see is actual high performance driving. There’s not tricks, there’s no CG, it’s pretty cool.”

“Baby Driver” opened in theaters last June 28, and has already earned $30 million in domestic box office and $6.8 million in international markets, according to Box Office Mojo.

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