"I'm gonna need you behind the wheel, again."
April 8, 2017 4:39 AM Subscribe
Edgar Wright's Baby Driver. (knock, knock) "Questions?"
Bonus (from wikipedia) "Edgar Wright has stated that he first had the idea for the film in 1994, however he adapted the film's original planned beginning into a 2003 music video he directed for Mint Royale's "Blue Song"."
posted by valkane at 5:14 AM on April 8, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by valkane at 5:14 AM on April 8, 2017 [5 favorites]
Somewhat different US version of the trailer.
posted by octothorpe at 5:19 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 5:19 AM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
If it weren't Edgar Wright behind the camera, I'd groan at all the heist movie cliches in either version of the trailer but I trust him to do something interesting with them.
posted by octothorpe at 5:27 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by octothorpe at 5:27 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
Oh, not an actual baby. Well, that's a little disappointing.
posted by gusottertrout at 5:46 AM on April 8, 2017 [16 favorites]
posted by gusottertrout at 5:46 AM on April 8, 2017 [16 favorites]
The Boss Baby vs Baby Driver: Who is the Better Movie Baby?
posted by ominous_paws at 5:51 AM on April 8, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by ominous_paws at 5:51 AM on April 8, 2017 [3 favorites]
Subaru: Inexpensive. And built to stay that way.
posted by How the runs scored at 6:52 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by How the runs scored at 6:52 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
That Subaru is one ugly car. Lancers are so much prettier.
posted by dazed_one at 7:03 AM on April 8, 2017
posted by dazed_one at 7:03 AM on April 8, 2017
They call me Baby Driver and once upon a pair of wheels, I hit the road and I'm gone...
posted by Zedcaster at 7:07 AM on April 8, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by Zedcaster at 7:07 AM on April 8, 2017 [6 favorites]
Edgar is such a student of action films, I'm not surprised he is finally making an original dramatic one. The Cornetto movies taught us that he truly loves the tropes.
posted by Megafly at 7:10 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Megafly at 7:10 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
This is tonally a little all over the place but Edgar Wright completely has my number and I'm into it.
posted by dismas at 7:15 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by dismas at 7:15 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
All the trailers just make me giggle. I'm so looking forward to this.
With this and Free Fire, we just need one more idiosyncratic British director to take on American crime genre tropes with laughs and we'd have enough of a trend for a think piece.
posted by Grangousier at 7:18 AM on April 8, 2017 [3 favorites]
With this and Free Fire, we just need one more idiosyncratic British director to take on American crime genre tropes with laughs and we'd have enough of a trend for a think piece.
posted by Grangousier at 7:18 AM on April 8, 2017 [3 favorites]
☑ Edgar Wright
☑ Heist movie
☑ Hella stupid car stunts
I am ridiculously excited to see this film.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 7:54 AM on April 8, 2017 [11 favorites]
☑ Heist movie
☑ Hella stupid car stunts
I am ridiculously excited to see this film.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 7:54 AM on April 8, 2017 [11 favorites]
I would also take a version of the trailer set to Devo's cover of Satisfaction.
posted by dismas at 7:55 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by dismas at 7:55 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's gonna be a brilliantly executed film, and I'm also probably not going to be able to get past the whole female character who only exists to be imperiled thing.
I'm just so tired of it. It's as though I was given a limited supply of fucks to give and,after a lifetime of this shit, my fucks cupboard is close to bare, and I just cannot spare any for this kind of bullshit anymore. It's not worth it.
And when it comes to storytelling, it is, honestly, a failure of art.
posted by schadenfrau at 8:02 AM on April 8, 2017 [17 favorites]
I'm just so tired of it. It's as though I was given a limited supply of fucks to give and,after a lifetime of this shit, my fucks cupboard is close to bare, and I just cannot spare any for this kind of bullshit anymore. It's not worth it.
And when it comes to storytelling, it is, honestly, a failure of art.
posted by schadenfrau at 8:02 AM on April 8, 2017 [17 favorites]
Or a spin off of Daryl Hannah's character from Kill Bill?
posted by Grangousier at 8:25 AM on April 8, 2017
posted by Grangousier at 8:25 AM on April 8, 2017
It's gonna be okay, I guess, but is it gonna be Fast and Furious in Space?
posted by Artw at 8:45 AM on April 8, 2017
posted by Artw at 8:45 AM on April 8, 2017
Going to wait for Edgar Wright's Toonces.
posted by lagomorphius at 8:53 AM on April 8, 2017 [9 favorites]
posted by lagomorphius at 8:53 AM on April 8, 2017 [9 favorites]
Be sure to install the baby driver before plugging the baby in to the USB port
posted by aubilenon at 10:30 AM on April 8, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by aubilenon at 10:30 AM on April 8, 2017 [13 favorites]
I feel like this is the closest we'll get to an Edgar Wright-directed Fast & Furious movie.
posted by sleeping bear at 10:33 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by sleeping bear at 10:33 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
Hooray!
posted by Going To Maine at 10:36 AM on April 8, 2017
posted by Going To Maine at 10:36 AM on April 8, 2017
That Subaru is one ugly car. Lancers are so much prettier.
Nobody puts Baby in a Mitsubishi.
posted by valkane at 10:43 AM on April 8, 2017 [8 favorites]
Nobody puts Baby in a Mitsubishi.
posted by valkane at 10:43 AM on April 8, 2017 [8 favorites]
Great trailer, not sure if I need to see the movie now.
posted by MartinWisse at 11:02 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by MartinWisse at 11:02 AM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
I've heard a lot of buzz about this movie, and one of the things about it that isn't necessarily apparent from this trailer is that the soundtrack features very prominently in the movie, to the point where all the action is synced / choreographed to the beats of the music. It apparently makes it both a very fun and exciting movie and also a movie that has a real benefit to a cinema viewing experience. I haven't seen it, this is based off of the opinions of several pop culture podcasters whom I basically trust.
posted by KathrynT at 1:37 PM on April 8, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by KathrynT at 1:37 PM on April 8, 2017 [4 favorites]
I am so Here For This that I may just stay right here in this thread until the movie comes out.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 1:45 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 1:45 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
Something encouraging is its release was moved from August, which can be a studio dumping ground, up to June, which is right in the midst of studio tentpoles.
posted by crashlanding at 1:55 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by crashlanding at 1:55 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
I think I already saw this movie a few years ago with Ryan Gosling. It was called something different back then...
posted by mary8nne at 3:06 PM on April 8, 2017
posted by mary8nne at 3:06 PM on April 8, 2017
dazed_one: Not the Evolutions 8 and 9 that were this particular Impreza's contemporaries. Those were based on nasty slab-sided penalty boxes, and the factory body kit for both the Evo 8 and Evo 9 scream "I like my commute, but it'd be so much better if I could be randomly pulled over by the cops for roadworthiness checks several times a week."
But I'm not partisan; when the next-gen Impreza WRX that replaced the hawkeye model in the trailer was first unveiled in '07, I threw up in my mouth a little bit. That's an ugly car.
posted by MarchHare at 4:29 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
But I'm not partisan; when the next-gen Impreza WRX that replaced the hawkeye model in the trailer was first unveiled in '07, I threw up in my mouth a little bit. That's an ugly car.
posted by MarchHare at 4:29 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
mary8nne: There was also that time it was made with Ryan O'Neal...
posted by MarchHare at 4:44 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by MarchHare at 4:44 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
That trailer was beautifully edited and just plain fun. I've watched it several times already. I'm really hoping the waitress character is more than a walking McGuffin, though, because I don't think those things would hold my interest for a full two hours.
posted by peppermind at 5:05 PM on April 8, 2017
posted by peppermind at 5:05 PM on April 8, 2017
I hope Radar Love is used in the movie itself, any other song would be an anticlimax.
posted by Coaticass at 6:19 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Coaticass at 6:19 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
Radar Love actually shows up on the ipod screen, so that's promising.
posted by valkane at 6:24 PM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by valkane at 6:24 PM on April 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
It's gonna be a brilliantly executed film, and I'm also probably not going to be able to get past the whole female character who only exists to be imperiled thing.
I bet Wright can do better than blindly bumbling into that trap. I think he's a smart filmmaker who enjoys playing with tropes; the damsel-in-distress trope might just be one he'll surprise you with. Here's hoping.
posted by axiom at 9:04 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
I bet Wright can do better than blindly bumbling into that trap. I think he's a smart filmmaker who enjoys playing with tropes; the damsel-in-distress trope might just be one he'll surprise you with. Here's hoping.
posted by axiom at 9:04 PM on April 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
jon hamm jon hamm jon hamm
yes i said yes i will yes
posted by palomar at 7:39 PM on April 9, 2017 [2 favorites]
yes i said yes i will yes
posted by palomar at 7:39 PM on April 9, 2017 [2 favorites]
I think I already saw this movie a few years ago with Ryan Gosling. It was called something different back then…
Grown Up Man Driver
There was also that much earlier movie, Miss Daisy Driver
posted by Going To Maine at 8:12 PM on April 9, 2017
Grown Up Man Driver
There was also that much earlier movie, Miss Daisy Driver
posted by Going To Maine at 8:12 PM on April 9, 2017
So I had a hankering to listen to Radar Love and man, does everyone in the audience look bored as hell. It's bizarre. It's like they were instructed to stare into the middle distance.
posted by dismas at 7:22 AM on April 10, 2017
posted by dismas at 7:22 AM on April 10, 2017
I'm super stoked to see this.
Drive, The Getaway, Bullit, and Run Loal Run come to mind.
I like movies with lots of frenetic movement, apparently.
That Edgar Wright wrote\directed only makes the anticipation that much better.
posted by bstreep at 2:14 PM on April 15, 2017
Drive, The Getaway, Bullit, and Run Loal Run come to mind.
I like movies with lots of frenetic movement, apparently.
That Edgar Wright wrote\directed only makes the anticipation that much better.
posted by bstreep at 2:14 PM on April 15, 2017
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