Baby Driver Dvd

Baby Driver is a 2017 action film written and directed by Edgar Wright. It stars Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver seeking freedom from a life of crime with his girlfriend Debora (Lily James). Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, Jamie Foxx and Jon Bernthal appear in supporting roles. Eric Fellner and his Working Title Films partner Tim Bevan produced Baby Driver in association with Big Talk Productions’ Nira Park. Sony and TriStar Pictures handled commercial distribution of the film. Baby Driver was financed through a partnership between TriStar and Media Rights Capital.

Wright developed Baby Driver for over two decades. He devised the idea well in his youth, and his early directing experience furthermore shaped his ambitions for Baby Driver. Originally based in Los Angeles, Wright revised the film’s setting to Atlanta, integrating the city’s ethos into an important storytelling device. Principal photography took place in Atlanta over four months, from February to May 2016. Production involved the planning of meticulously coordinated stunts, choreography, and in-camera shooting. Critics have examined Baby Driver’s subject matter in thematic studies of the film, with emphasis on its use of color symbolism and focus on Baby’s evolving morality.

Baby Driver premiered at the South by Southwest festival on March 11, 2017, and was released in theaters in North America and the United Kingdom on June 28. It was well received by the media for its craftsmanship and style, though the characterization and screenwriting drew occasional criticism. The National Board of Review selected Baby Driver as one of the top films of the year. It earned $226 million globally, bolstered by positive word-of-mouth support and flagging interest in blockbuster franchises. Baby Driver was a candidate for numerous awards, including three Academy Awards (for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing), two BAFTAs, two Critics’ Choice Awards, and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Elgort), and won several other honors chiefly for technical achievement. The success of Baby Driver has increased studio interest in producing a sequel.

Plot

Baby is a getaway driver in Atlanta. As a child he survived a car crash, which killed his parents and left him with tinnitus, and he finds catharsis in music. Baby ferries crews of robbers assembled by Doc, a criminal mastermind, to pay off a debt Baby incurred when he unknowingly stole a car containing Doc’s stolen goods. Between jobs, he remixes snippets of recorded conversations and cares for his deaf foster father Joseph. At Bo’s Diner, he meets a waitress named Debora, and they start dating.

Baby’s next robbery goes awry after an armed bystander chases them down, but Baby evades him and the police. Having paid his debt, Baby quits his life of crime and starts delivering pizzas. Doc interrupts Baby’s date with Debora and insists he join a post-office heist, threatening to hurt Debora and Joseph should he refuse.

The crew consists of easygoing Buddy, his sharpshooter wife Darling, and trigger-happy Bats, who takes an immediate dislike to Baby. When the crew attempts to purchase illegal firearms, Bats recognizes one of the dealers as an undercover cop and opens fire. They kill most of the dealers. Afterward, Bats makes Baby stop at Debora’s diner, unaware of Baby and Debora’s romance. Baby, aware of Bats’ homicidal habit, stops him from killing her to avoid paying.

Doc is furious, revealing that the dealers were dirty cops on his payroll. He decides to cancel the heist, but the crew overrule him. Baby attempts to slip away late that night, hoping to take Debora and leave Atlanta. He is stopped by Buddy and Bats, who have discovered his recordings and believe he is an informant; when they and Doc hear his mixtapes, they are convinced of his innocence.

During the heist, Bats kills a security guard. Disgusted, Baby refuses to drive away, causing Bats to hit him. Baby rams the car into a rebar which impales Bats, killing him. The remaining three flee on foot. When Darling is killed in a shootout with police, Buddy blames Baby for her death and vows to kill him. Baby steals a car and flees to his apartment. He leaves Joseph at an assisted living home with his heist earnings, then rushes to Bo’s for Debora, where Buddy is waiting. Baby shoots Buddy and flees with Debora as police reinforcements swarm the restaurant.

At the safe house, Doc refuses Baby’s pleas for help, but relents when he sees Debora consoling him, saying he was in love once, too. Doc supplies them with cash and an escape route out of the country. The police confront the three in the parking garage, but Doc kills them all. Buddy ambushes them and kills Doc. A cat-and-mouse game ensues until Buddy has Baby at his mercy. He fires next to both of Baby’s ears, bursting his ear-drums and temporarily deafening him, but the distraction allows Debora to hit Buddy with a crowbar. Baby shoots him in the leg and Buddy falls to his death.

The couple are stopped by a police roadblock, forcing Baby to surrender. At Baby’s trial, Joseph, Debora, and other people affected by Baby’s crimes testify in his defense, citing his acts of compassion and mercy. He is sentenced to 25 years in prison, subject to a parole hearing after five years. Debora stays in contact with Baby (whose real name is revealed to be Miles) during his incarceration, and she waits for him with a newly purchased vintage car when they are reunited.

Cast

A head-and-shoulder shot of Ansel Elgort at the Baby Driver Sydney premiere
A head-and-shoulder shot of Lily James at the Baby Driver Sydney premiere
Ansel Elgort (left) and Lily James (right) at the Baby Driver Sydney premiere
Ansel Elgort as Miles AKA “Baby”:
Baby is the on-call criminal getaway driver with an intense passion for music. Elgort regarded the character as an innocent “younger than his years, deep down”. Edgar Wright and the producers at Working Title Films began contemplating the lead role well before they obtained funding for Baby Driver. Elgort, John Boyega, and Logan Lerman were among a raft of potential candidates considered for star billing. Elgort auditioned for the part because he found the screenplay compelling. The actor auditioned several times, but was hired based on a taped audition where he lip synced and danced to the Commodores’ 1977 single “Easy”. Wright felt so strongly that the audition was edited into the final cut of Baby Driver. The writer-director explained his selection of Elgort, “There’s an element of an old soul in Ansel and that was something I thought connected with what I had already written.” Hudson Meek portrays Baby as a child.
Kevin Spacey as Doc:
Doc is the mysterious kingpin of an Atlanta-based crime syndicate. Spacey’s involvement in Baby Driver was formally announced in the press in November 2015.
Lily James as Debora:
Debora is a waitress employed at Bo’s Diner who later becomes Baby’s love interest. James auditioned to play the film’s female lead because she felt compelled by the soundtrack and the direction of the script. When asked about similarities between herself and Debora, the actress replied, “I love music. I’m a bit of a dreamer. I think that I’m impulsive. I think the fact that Debora chooses to run off with this guy she barely knows rather than stick around in the middle of this job at a diner […] I reckon I’m impulsive in that way too. And I’m loyal.” Emma Stone was an early candidate for the role during development.
Jon Bernthal as Griff:
Griff is among Doc’s thugs responsible for the security of his heist crew. Bernthal believed criminals were too often stereotyped as incompetent in news media. Therefore, to prepare for his role, the actor consulted with real-life career criminals to get a better grasp on his character and the inner workings of organized crime. He said in an interview, “There’s your idiots who hold up a place and get caught because they leave their wallet there, but there’s mastermind criminals and they all come in different shapes and sizes and different levels of intellect. I think there are people with real talent and people who take it enormously seriously, and those are the kinds of people I talked to.”
Jon Hamm as Jason “Buddy” van Horn:
Buddy is the laidback Wall Street banker-turned-thief brought to ruin by a drug habit. His impulsive decisions are the result of a mid-life crisis. Wright envisioned Buddy as a strong male character à la Steve McQueen in The Getaway (1972) and George Clooney in Out of Sight (1998)—suave, handsome, yet much more sinister. The writer-director tailored the character with Hamm, a longtime friend and fan of his work, in mind; he is the only actor in Baby Driver whose character was written specifically for them. The two men first met at a Saturday Night Live afterparty in 2008. Hamm took part in a table read several years before Baby Driver was commissioned by a studio.
Jamie Foxx as Leon “Bats” Jefferson III:
Bats is Doc’s particularly sadistic, ruthless henchman with little regard for the people in his way. Foxx was a casting choice recommended to Wright, although he had reservations and felt the actor would not be enthusiastic in a supporting role. Foxx was fascinated with the film’s artistic direction, however, and joined the project thanks to the support of Quentin Tarantino. He modeled Bats after a longtime friend he first met at a Los Angeles comedy club in his youth.
Eiza González as Monica “Darling” Castello:
Darling is Buddy’s young, vivacious wife and the only woman in Doc’s heist crew. She and Buddy form an intensely intimate, Bonnie and Clyde-esque pairing. Describing her as a vapid “crook space-cadet woman who has no attachment to reality”, González took an interest in Darling because she saw her as a strong female character. She said, “I think that she has an inner steel that is very formidable. She’s a very protective woman, and whenever she sees her love being threatened, she becomes a lioness.” The actress joined the production in December 2015.
CJ Jones as Joseph:
Joseph is Baby’s disabled foster-father. Casting director Francine Maisler was tasked with hiring a suitable actor to play Joseph. Though Jones was significantly younger than the role called for, he was hired from a handful of prospective actors, most of whom were not deaf. Jones opted not to work with an on-set interpreter until later in production. He also helped Elgort hone his sign language (ASL) with an on-set tutor.
Other cast members include Flea as Eddie, Lanny Joon as JD, Sky Ferreira as Baby’s biological mother, Lance Palmer as Baby’s biological father, Big Boi and Killer Mike as restaurant patrons, Paul Williams as The Butcher, and Jon Spencer as a prison guard.