{"id":5624,"date":"2015-09-10T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2015-09-10T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:42:47","slug":"edgar-wright-and-jamie-foxx-team-up-for-baby-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/09\/10\/edgar-wright-and-jamie-foxx-team-up-for-baby-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Wright and Jamie Foxx Team Up for &#8216;Baby Driver&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/07\/20\/ant-man-is-a-pleasant-surprise\/\">Ant-Man<\/a><\/em> and Edgar Wright didn\u2019t work out, and we\u2019ll unfortunately\u00a0never see his version, but the good news is that Wright has a new project we can all salivate over. Oh, and nobody from Disney will be cutting into it! The new project is called <em>Baby Driver<\/em>, and it\u2019s scheduled to be released in March 2017. The film will star Ansel Elgort (<em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em>), Lily James (<em>Cinderella<\/em>), and Jamie Foxx.<\/p>\n<p>The plot consists of a crime boss that takes a young, skilled getaway driver under his wing. Elgort will be playing the driver; a kid that uses a personal soundtrack to manhandle the roads in front of him. Of course, he has to face his toughest challenge when a chaotic heist puts everything he cares for in danger.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds enticing, and since Wright will be in the director\u2019s chair, we\u2019re hoping that it pays homage to films like <i>Bullitt<\/i>, <i>Drive<\/i>, <i>French Connection<\/i>, and so forth. The guy can direct an action sequence, as seen in <i>The World\u2019s End<\/i> with the semi-serious hand-to-hand combat (where we can actually see what\u2019s going on), so there\u2019s high hopes that he\u2019ll be awesome in directing car chases. Maybe Elgort will even drive a baby at some point in the film, who knows?<\/p>\n<p>While Wright seems to be at his best when he\u2019s working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/05\/12\/simon-pegg-and-robin-williams-in-absolutely-anything-trailer\/\">Simon Pegg<\/a> and Nick Frost, he\u2019s still pretty awesome when those two aren\u2019t in the line-up. Having said that, it\u2019s safe to say that most of us are hoping that the Cornetto Trilogy duo makes a cameo.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b59YN81yAGc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Ant-Man and Edgar Wright didn\u2019t work out, and we\u2019ll unfortunately\u00a0never see his version, but the good news is that Wright has a new project we can all salivate over. Oh, and nobody from Disney will be cutting into it! The new project is called Baby Driver, and it\u2019s scheduled to be released in March<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/09\/10\/edgar-wright-and-jamie-foxx-team-up-for-baby-driver\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[2382,1489,2380,2379,2381,2383,2293],"class_list":{"0":"post-5624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ansel-elgort","9":"tag-ant-man","10":"tag-baby-driver","11":"tag-edgar-wright","12":"tag-lily-james","13":"tag-nick-frost","14":"tag-simon-pegg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}