Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is easily the director’s most successful film so it wasn’t exactly a big surprise when the studio seemed keen on developing a sequel. Wright has previously teased that he was working on a script for Baby Driver 2, and it seems that the script is done, but he’s just not sure if he’ll be directing it himself.
While chatting with Interview Magazine with Cary Joji Fukunaga, Edgar Wright teased Baby Driver 2 and what it would take to direct the sequel.
If I did the sequel—and in fact I’ve already written a script—I’d have to find a way to make it fun for me. The idea of doing a straight Xerox is just not interesting because, as you know, these films take at least two years and in our cases, because of the pandemic, they took even longer. My rule of thumb is you have to really want to do it. We’ve both been in situations where we have walked away from a studio franchise movie because we weren’t feeling it. I know that we share many things in common, and that’s one of them.
It was that feeling of really wanting to do it that led Edgar Wright towards Last Night in Soho instead of immediately moving forward on Baby Driver 2. “I don’t think I’ve ever done exactly the same thing twice in a row,” Wright said. “In fact, the reason I decided to do Last Night in Soho was because at the time when Baby Driver was out, it was doing an awards run and got Oscar nominations, and I was getting a lot of pressure to jump straight into doing a sequel. And I just wasn’t ready to do the same story again. It was a conscious thing of switching gears.” Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho is now playing in theaters. You can check out a review from our own Chris Bumbray right here.