With “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” premiering at Comic-Con over the weekend and its general release merely weeks away, attention will no doubt be then be put on director Edgar Wright and, specifically, how he’ll follow up this hugely-anticipated film.
Speaking with Anne Thompson, Wright has again taken to discussing the three projects on his radar including the Marvel adaptation “Ant Man” which is persistently plagued with rumors despite seemingly no movement on Wright’s front; the third part of his Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, “The World’s End”; and a mysterious project set up with Working Title Films titled “Baby Driver” announced in 2008 and previously touted as the most likely to follow “Scott Pilgrim.”
“I’m a terrible multi-tasker and so it’s funny like when people ask me ‘whats happening with ‘Ant Man?'” noted Wright at SDCC. “I was thinking ‘well kind of the same thing as two years ago.’ I’ve been working on [‘Scott Pilgrim’] six years on and off and two years solidly since July 2008… I really enjoy writing and I’m basically going to spend the rest of the year finishing up things I started which is ‘Ant Man,’ another script with Simon Pegg and also a solo project that is something completely different again; going further into the musical route actually.”
Musical route? Originally described simply as “a wild spin on the action and crime genre which will be set in the US,” little is known of what “Baby Driver” is actually about but, in light of this new info, a musically inclined action-crime film does sounds right in the wheelhouse of Wright’s genre-fusing work. The director, though, has yet to officially commit to any project and is seemingly just keeping his options open between the three. However it is interesting to note that the original announcement by Working Title noted “Baby Driver” would precede “The World’s End” though obviously things can change.
The director also discussed his adaptation of Jon Ronson’s conspiracy novel “Them” which he was co-scribing with Mike White and, at one stage, had Pegg, Frost and Jack Black loosely involved. “I don’t know quite what’s happening with that one,” Wright admitted, with the project’s absence from future plans hinting that it may be on the backburner for now.
“Scott Pilgrim” hits theaters August 13th with the next dose of Wright due Christmas next year in Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn,” which he co-scribed with Steven Moffat and Joe Cornish.
Clearly Baby Driver is going to be an action movie set in the 60's involving the mismatched duo of Simon and Garfunkle.