STACK #153 Jul 2017

CINEMA FEATURE

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EdgarWright has assembled a cracking cast – and some cool tunes – for his fast and furious dream project, Baby Driver . Words Gill Pringle B est known for his tongue-in-cheek movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz , British director Edgar Wright has long cherished a dream of making a bank heist action movie – Bottoms by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, which is now actually the first track in the film. I listened to it so many times, always thinking how it would be such a great car chase song,” recalls Wright, who also directed cult garage band fantasy Scott

but with really cool music and huge movie stars. “I suppose that would be any young director’s dream,” smiles Wright, 43, when STACK meets with him on the Atlanta set of Baby Driver, where he's now surrounded by his ultimate dream cast – Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Ansel Elgort and Lily James. The fantasy begun when he was 21 years old. “I heard Bell

Pilgrim vs. The World and sci-fi comedy The World’s End . “From there I developed this idea of a getaway driver who has to listen to music all the time, which then grew into the idea that he is basically soundtracking the movie himself. He has tinnitus from a car accident when he was younger and he drowns out the whine in his ears by playing music, now turned

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