Ansel Elgort Eyes Role in Edgar Wright's 'Baby Driver'

When the whole Ant-Man thing fell through for Edgar Wright he decided it was best to pick up a long-gestating project rather than take on a new one. Baby Driver is a film he's been developing for years and it just took a major step forward with Ansel Elgort entering talks to star.

A report at Variety says Elgort has beaten out John Boyega and Logan Lerman for the lead role, and why wouldn't he? Elgort took off like a shot after starring in the Carrie remake, and his 2014 was packed with hit films like Divergent and The Fault In Our Stars, plus an awful (but low-profile) dud in Men, Women & Children. Plot details had been slim but THR now says it follows "a getaway driver who relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss, he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom."

There's also word from The Tracking Board that Emma Stone and Michael Douglas are being sought to co-star alongside Elgort. She would play his love interest while Douglas, who nearly worked with Wright on Ant-Man, would play his mentor. 

 All of this is pretty early on but Elgort and Wright is a pretty exciting combination.

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Edgar Wright's Next Film will be 'Baby Driver', not 'The Night Stalker'

If there is an upshot to Edgar Wright leaving Marvel's Ant-Man, a film he had been working on since before Iron Man ever hit theaters, it's that now he's free to do something else. While some had been hoping he would stick around with Disney by going back to his long-gestating remake of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, that never seemed likel given the abrupt manner which he split from the studio. So instead what he'll do is tackle another project that has been sitting around for awhile, and one that promises Wright all the creative freedom he could want.

Deadline reports that Wright will next direct Baby Driver, which has been in the works since he signed a two-picture deal with Working Title about six years ago.  Said to be in the vein of Wright's vaunted "Cornetto Trilogy", it's described as a “collision of crime, action, music and sound.”, closely resembling the description it had before.

The screenplay will be provided by Wright himself and it's said to be on the fast track so we may get this one sooner rather than later. This is great news and a chance to once again see Wright do something he has a personal investment in, rather than slogging through the Marvel/Disney machine.

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