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CINEMA

FEATURE

EdgarWright has assembled a cracking cast – and some cool tunes –

for his fast and furious dream project,

Baby Driver

Words

Gill Pringle

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 –

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

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

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