![]() ![]() So that video kept popping up again, virally, over the next 10 years. Later, it actually became sort of a help, because the actor in the video, Noel Fielding, became much more famous after the video was made. It only came about because, the night before I was supposed to hand in my first treatment for Mint Royale, I was like "What the fuck am I going to do? Maybe I'll go with this getaway driver idea!" And then I was mad at myself for doing it, because even though the music video turned out pretty good, I was like "Oh, why did I burn that idea on that video?" So I was annoyed at myself for doing that. It's now become the story that the movie is an expansion of that music video, when in reality, that music video was me road testing the idea for the first scene. I had done this music video that was like a dry run for the opening scene. Long before Baby Driver came into existence, Edgar Wright test drove the film's central concept with a music video for the band Mint Royale.a move that ended up benefitting the project in the long run: I didn't start seriously working on it or writing it until 10 years ago. Over the years, I started to get the idea of a getaway driver who listens to music the whole time. And then they come back and it's building up to the song really kicking into gear and then they drive off." This is stuff I was thinking about way before Spaced, way before Shaun of the Dead. ![]() And now he's on his own and he starts singing along with the song. On these guitar stabs, you cut around the gang and they get out and go inside. I would literally listen to "Bellbottoms" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and visualize this car chase and be able to visualize: "So the first half of this section, they're all pulling up. So it's like dreams and visualizations of action came before the idea for the character. I think it was after I had done Shaun of the Dead that I actually uttered "Oh, I'm a director." Really, I would listen to music and I would visualize the action. Even though I had made a movie, I certainly wasn't calling myself a film director at that point. It really all started when I was 21 and I had done my first movie, but I was living in London, completely broke. I think it came from literally visualizing the action while listening to songs. It turns out that that the earliest seeds for Baby Driver were planted a long time ago, before Shaun of the Dead and after Wright's little-seen debut, A Fistful of Fingers: Our almost entirely one-sided conversation was full of great information about how he made his spectacular, music-driven car chase movie, the film's earliest origins, and his favorite cinematic "needle drops." But that's okay! It may even be the best case scenario. I sat down to talk to Wright about Baby Driver, but I ended up mostly listening to Wright talk about Baby Driver.
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