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Baby Driver

FILM · 2017 · UK

Baby Driver

Directed by
Edgar Wright
Runtime
113 min
Studio
Big Talk Studios, Working Title Films, MRC

179 archived facts 8 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

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179 Interesting Facts About Baby Driver

Interesting Facts (76)

  1. #001

    Director Edgar Wright once parked his car in a parking lot and noticed, entirely by coincidence, that the car beside his bore a stylized "BABY ON BOARD" sign whose face was taken from the film's poster. Wright left a note on the car's windshield signed with the words "From the director of Baby Driver, I approve!"

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  2. #002

    If you watch the film with headphones, you will hear Baby's music only in the ear where he is wearing an earbud each time he puts one in.

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  3. #003

    The Mike Myers masks were originally meant to be Michael Myers masks from the Halloween series, but the producers could not obtain the legal permission. Edgar Wright then approached the comedian Mike Myers about using masks resembling him, thinking the scene was funny. This is ironic because the original Michael Myers masks were themselves obtained without the necessary permission: Tommy Lee Wallace, the production assistant on the first film, bought a William Shatner/Captain Kirk mask from a Halloween store and painted it white to give it a creepy look.

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  4. #004
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    After the first bank robbery, Griff jokes, "If you don't see me again, it's because I'm dead." Despite being prominent in the credits, the character is never seen again in the film after his five-minute appearance.

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  5. #005
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    Edgar Wright said the final scene, in which Baby leaves prison, was deliberately left ambiguous (note that neither Baby nor Debora appears to have aged), to leave the audience to interpret whether he was actually paroled and whether what the narrator says about the rainbow comes true, or whether it is simply a product of his imagination. The actors Ansel Elgort and Lily James also disagreed on this: Elgort thinks it really is his imagination, while James thinks it actually happened.

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  6. #006

    The Commodores' song "Easy" was requested for the film by Ansel Elgort after Edgar Wright asked whether there were songs he knew by heart.

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  7. #007

    One of the film's technical consultants was Joe Loya, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in the early '90s for bank robbery.

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  8. #008

    The studio asked for the scene in which Baby mispronounces the band T. Rex as "Trex" to be removed from the film because it made the character look stupid, but Edgar Wright refused.

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  9. #009

    Jamie Foxx's line "That's some Oscar shit right there" was improvised.

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  10. #010

    According to Edgar Wright, every script sent to the lead actors being considered for their roles came with an iPod containing a list of songs (arranged in a specific order) to be played while reading a particular scene of the film, in order to emphasize the tone.

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  11. #011

    Most, though not all, of the gunshots in the film are in time with the rhythm of the music.

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  12. #012

    According to Edgar Wright, many people thought the diner set was a real restaurant and that groups occasionally came in and sat down to eat lunch.

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  13. #013
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    Edgar Wright came up with the idea of Doc bringing his "nephew" along while scouting a bank after meeting a real ex-convict who said he had done exactly that before a robbery.

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  14. #014

    In almost every scene where music is not playing, a faint ringing (the sound of Baby's tinnitus) can be heard in the background.

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  15. #015

    Edgar Wright insisted on shooting most of the chase scenes in daylight because it created an "extra air of collision tension."

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  16. #016
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    After the final heist, Baby runs home and finds the wounded Joseph in their wanted apartment. Records are scattered everywhere; the most visible ones are the original albums from which the film's soundtrack songs were taken.

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  17. #017

    Ansel Elgort had trained in ballet and other dance styles since childhood, and this skill proved useful for the action scenes with musical choreography.

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  18. #018

    The large collection of sunglasses and iPods Baby owns was not bought by him; they were taken from the cars he stole. In an interview, Edgar Wright said: "If he's been stealing cars since he was 12, the most important things he'd inherit from these stolen cars are people's sunglasses and iPods."

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  19. #019

    Near the beginning of the film, as Baby flips through channels, several lines of dialogue from different films can be heard ("You are so beautiful," "They grow up so freaking fast," "How's that working out for you?" and "We're partners. There's nothing more important to me more than our friendship"). Each of these lines later appears as a line of dialogue delivered by Baby.

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  20. #020
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    The man who knows Bats at the gun deal (R. Marcus Taylor) was one of the guards Bats encountered during the armored truck robbery (the other was killed).

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  21. #021

    Doc's car, a Mercedes Benz S550, was designed to correct itself when it went out of control, so its computer systems had to be modified for the chase scenes.

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  22. #022

    In a recent interview with THR (The Hollywood Reporter), Edgar Wright explains why Baby (Ansel Elgort) does not use a smartphone for his music and calls. It is because modern technology like smartphones can be tracked, allowing Baby to stay off the grid by using burners and iPods.

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  23. #023

    Jon Hamm's role was always written for him and conceived with him in mind; he was the only actor from the first table read to appear in the final film.

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  24. #024
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    When Baby steals the woman's car, he tunes the radio from 104.1 FM to 97.1 FM, and Golden Earring's "Radar Love" plays. Along the way he hits several real Atlanta-area radio station frequencies: 104.1 FM WALR, an R&B and jazz station, is what the woman was listening to when Baby first stops her; 101.5 FM WKHX is a country music station where Baby briefly stops; and 97.1 FM WSRV, where Baby stops, is a classic rock station. It is also worth noting that while searching for 97.1 FM, Baby appears to skip more than ten stations from 100.5 FM to 96.5 FM, all of which play static. The only station that plays radio that is not a real frequency in Atlanta, 100.7 FM, was once a real radio station in the area. Its call letters, WGHR, are now used by a former station in the Tampa, Florida area, which may explain why Baby hears an old song while scrolling past that frequency.

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  25. #025

    The mural featuring the trumpeter seen in the title sequence was painted by local artists in Atlanta at director Edgar Wright's request.

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  26. #026

    It is the first R-rated film to be granted permission to show footage from a Disney film (Monsters, Inc. (2001)). As a result, Monsters, Inc. director Pete Docter was given a 'special thanks' credit.

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  27. #027

    One of the songs planned for use was Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" featuring Snoop Dogg, but due to high licensing fees the film used David McCallum's "The Edge," which is prominently sampled in the former.

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  28. #028
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    While preparing for the third heist, Baby absentmindedly plays with a toy car and accidentally knocks it off the table. This foreshadows a scene in the third act in which Baby sends a police car from an upper-level parking garage crashing down into the street below.

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  29. #029
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    Costume designer Courtney Hoffman suggested giving Debora tattooed boots to show that "she's not committed to this life of being a waitress and can take off anytime."

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  30. #030

    The opening title sequence uses a single-take shot of Baby walking to get coffee and then walking back, recalling the famous opening of Shaun of the Dead (2004), in which Shaun walks to the shop and then returns home in a single shot (which is later repeated when the zombie outbreak begins).

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  31. #031
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    The prison from which Baby is released is the same prison used in The Blues Brothers (1980). The filming follows a route similar to the one in The Blues Brothers.

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  32. #032

    Edgar Wright had been working on the idea for this film for many years. He first used it in a music video he directed for the British electronic duo Mint Royale and their track "Blue Song" (Mint Royale: Blue Song (2003)). In the video, Noel Fielding plays a music-loving getaway driver for a group of bank robbers that includes Wright regular Nick Frost. A clip from the video is shown in the film when the television in Baby's apartment is being channel-surfed.

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  33. #033

    Edgar Wright began working on this film in 1995 but did not finish the script until 2011 and the film until 2017. He did, however, receive an advance for it in 2007. He thanked his producer for not suing him over this when the film had its world premiere at SXSW.

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  34. #034

    When Edgar Wright wanted Ansel Elgort to be tougher in a take, he used the code word "Man Driver!" He taught Ansel the "Kubrick look" by showing him a picture on his phone of Malcolm McDowell's character in A Clockwork Orange (1971).

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  35. #035

    On the first day of shooting, Jamie Foxx watched Jon Hamm on the monitor and said to himself, "He handsome."

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  36. #036

    When Baby delivers pizza, there is a close-up of Wright's finger pressing the doorbell button. Wright also appears in the music store window during the first coffee run. Wright said on Twitter that he was following the shot and planned to remove the reflection in post, but decided to leave it in.

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  37. #037

    When Doc plans the heist for Bats, Eddie and JD, their dialogue cannot be heard because of Baby's music. However, the dialogue is present in the trailer because Edgar Wright felt it deserved to be heard in that context.

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  38. #038

    During the opening title sequence, as Baby gets coffee and listens to the lyrics of "Harlem Shuffle," he can be seen in graffiti, signs and posters as he walks past.

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  39. #039

    The car Baby uses in the opening scene is a 2006 Subaru WRX STI in San Remo Red. This is the actual car he was to keep after the film wrapped, as a birthday gift.

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  40. #040
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    The picture seen on the back wall of Bo's Diner is the same image as the postcard Baby received from Debora in prison.

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  41. #041

    The song playing on the iPod in the red Challenger is "Know How" by Young MC (Marvin Young), from the album 'Stone Cold Rhymin'. The bass line on that track is played by Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, who plays a crook named Eddie in one of the jobs early in the film.

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  42. #042

    Director Edgar Wright tweeted "Meryl Streep's in our movie!" in early 2017. He deleted it shortly afterward, and many people speculated about whether Streep was in the film. Although she does not appear in the film, Streep shows up on a TV screen in a clip from It's Complicated (2009) as Baby channel-surfs.

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  43. #043

    During the studio logos, you can hear a faint ringing resembling Baby's tinnitus.

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  44. #044

    The film was initially set in Los Angeles but was ultimately shot in Atlanta. Other cities with tax incentives were ruled out for being too cold or for falling through at the last minute. Edgar Wright got help from local writers and location scouts to help him rewrite the film to make it specific to Atlanta.

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  45. #045

    When star Ansel Elgort was given the script, it was delivered to him on an iPad that played music for the relevant scenes via emojis.

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  46. #046

    One problem the filmmakers frequently faced was the abundance of leaves on Atlanta's streets. To avoid them, they generally preferred to shoot in urban environments.

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  47. #047

    Costume designer Courtney Hoffman had Ansel Elgort try on 80 different jackets before deciding on Baby's style.

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  48. #048

    It is the first Edgar Wright film shot in the United States.

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  49. #049

    Several 2006 Subaru Impreza WRXs with various modifications were used in the film. Some were standard WRX STIs whose spoilers were swapped for the more conservative WRX version, while another had modifications including 320 horsepower, a heavier clutch and differentials from an STI. One of the cars was an automatic fitted with a seat and controls on the roof so the crew could film the "driving" actors without having to worry about actually controlling the car. Another, a WRX converted to rear-wheel drive that delivered a modest power increase up to a high 200-horsepower range, was named by stunt driver Jeremy Fry as his favorite vehicle.

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  50. #050

    During promotion, Edgar Wright jokingly referred to the film as part of the Simon and Garfunkel Cinematic Universe and to Marc Webb's The Only Living Boy in New York (2017). Both films take their titles from Simon & Garfunkel songs.

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  51. #051

    Most of the film was shot on film rather than digitally.

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  52. #052

    Although Baby says Debora belongs to the band Trex (T. Rex), the group actually recorded under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex and released in early 1968. The name was not shortened until 1970, when singer/guitarist Marc Bolan learned that producer Tony Visconti had used the abbreviation in his work diary. Bolan later informed Visconti that he would shorten the band's name because it was easier to spell.

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  53. #053

    Bats names three "hex songs": Guns N' Roses' cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," Eagles' "Hotel California" and Boyz II Men's "End of the Road." "Knockin'" was based on a superstition recounted by a former inmate Edgar Wright interviewed, who said that if the song came on the radio before a plan was carried out, the robbery job would be called off. "Hotel California" is one of the songs Jamie Foxx absolutely hates in real life (he improvised that line). No explanation has yet been given for "End of the Road," though it underscores the complicated relationship between Baby and Debora throughout the film and that Doc has to give some things up for his heists.

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  54. #054

    The Mercedes-Benz S550 used by Doc was supplied by Mercedes-Benz; all of the ones used were destroyed and scrapped by the time filming was completed.

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  55. #055

    Baby's first walk to get coffee (to "Harlem Shuffle") takes him out of the Healy Building on Forsyth St NW, around the first corner on the left toward Poplar St NW, and then to a café on the corner at Fairlie St NW. While many real landmarks are still visible on Google Maps (such as the Sidebar), other elements (such as graffiti and the ATM) are clearly added by the filmmakers.

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  56. #056

    In addition to one Challenger, Dodge provided 15 Dodge Chargers; all but two were destroyed when filming was completed. 2 Chevrolet Blazers were used.

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  57. #057

    Although Edgar Wright insisted on using less CGI, the visual effects company Double Negative provided around 450 VFX shots, mostly for cleanup, digital cars, background objects and the combining of practical shots.

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  58. #058

    The car seen at the beginning of the film (a red 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX) is the same model of car seen at the end of Edgar Wright's 2007 film Hot Fuzz (2007).

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    J. D. drops his gun because he is the only crew member whose rifle has no strap.

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  60. #060

    During the scene of drinking coffee through the music store window, there is a man acting like a mannequin who starts moving after Baby plays the trumpet.

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  61. #061

    In a scene featuring Baby's home sound equipment, you can see the album cover of The Incredible Bongo Band's 'Bongo Rock'. One of the songs on the album, "Apache", became famous in the seventies when the pioneering hip hop DJ Kool Herc used it for mixing. In fact, many consider him one of the first to mix and scratch records to create new songs. The "Apache" break is still used today. The album cover can therefore be seen as a reference to the early pioneers of mixing, Baby's predecessors.

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  62. #062
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    In the film it is revealed that Buddy's real name is Jason Van Horn; during the final confrontation between Baby and Buddy, the police radio in the parking lot can be heard from above.

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  63. #063

    In the opening scene, as Baby walks toward the diner, he passes a music store called "B. E. Brass." The "B. E." is a nod to the song "Harlem Shuffle" by Bob & Earl.

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  64. #064

    When Baby sings along to Golden Earring's "Radar Love," the car he is in is painted Radar Red.

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  65. #065

    At roughly the 43rd minute of the film, Baby counts the money he earned delivering pizza. One of the one-dollar bills bears the website www.ThisSiteMakesYouMoney.com. As of 2019, the website no longer exists.

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  66. #066

    During the second heist, the characters wear Austin Powers masks from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). The Damned's "Neat Neat Neat," which plays during this sequence, includes the lyric "be a man, a certain kind of mystery man."

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  67. #067

    Almost the entire film was shot in Atlanta; in the opening walk, you can see that Doc's office is inside the Healey Building in Downtown. Oddly, the bank in the first heist (which is not a bank in real life) is in the Candler Building, less than three blocks away, not even a mile by car.

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  68. #068
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    Later in the film, during an ordinary driving scene, Bats, Buddy and Darling discuss their real names. Buddy says they use "code names, MONIKERS." Bats then asks Darling what her real name is, and Darling replies: "MONICA."

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  69. #069

    Ansel Elgort was on the list of actors who would play Han Solo in the upcoming Star Wars spin-off (Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)). In most scenes of this film, he wears a black jacket with white sleeves that resembles Han Solo's classic outfit.

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  70. #070

    Various crew members played extras in the action scenes.

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  71. #071

    Baby enters a coffee shop called Octane. From the moment the first bell rings as he enters to the moment the last bell rings as he leaves, he is inside for exactly 64 beats of the song. Oct- is the prefix for 8. The square of 8 is 64. Meanwhile, octane, by definition, is only a measure of a fuel's heat and pressure. The film is full of high-octane or intense car and foot chase scenes.

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  72. #072
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    Buddy quotes Romeo and Juliet a few minutes before his death. William Shakespeare's play also appears in Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz (2007).

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  73. #073

    Young MC's (Marvin Young) song "Know How" includes the line "It's no hocus-pocus, I'll just get you into focus." Focus's song Hocus Pocus is also used in the film.

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  74. #074

    Baby refers to the police as "scum" in a paraphrase of another Edgar Wright film, Hot Fuzz (2007). Both films feature a 2006 model Impreza.

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  75. #075

    The Mike Myers masks were meant to be the "Michael Myers" masks from Halloween (1978). Those specific masks were in fact William Shatner masks. The reason this mask was used in Halloween was that it was ordinary enough to be unsettling when worn. It was so unrecognizable that the only way to tell whose face the mask was originally was if the person was also wearing a Star Trek (1966) costume, and even then the masks looked distorted and strange.

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  76. #076

    While Baby waits for coffee in Octane, Debora passes in front of the window. Baby follows her from right to left.

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Production Story (79)

  1. #077

    Because the film was starting to go over budget, the studio pressured Edgar Wright to cut the foot chase scene. To make sure the scene was completed, Wright deferred part of his directing fee.

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  2. #078

    Director Edgar Wright once parked his car in a parking lot, but by complete coincidence noticed that the car next to his had a stylized "BABY ON BOARD" sign whose face was taken from the film's poster of Baby (Ansel Elgort). Wright left a note on the car's windshield with his signature that read "From the director of Baby Driver, I approve!"

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  3. #079

    If you watch the film with headphones, every time Baby puts on his headphones you will hear his music only in that ear.

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  4. #080

    In the post office scene, the teller at the counter quotes Dolly Parton: "Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain." The final heist begins in the rain. When Baby leaves prison, a rainbow is visible in the background.

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  5. #081

    The studio pressured Edgar Wright to cut the foot chase scene because the film was starting to go over budget. Wright deferred part of his directing fee to make sure the scene was completed.

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  6. #082

    Joseph was written as a deaf African American in his 80s. CJ Jones was the only performer who auditioned and was actually deaf. Edgar Wright said, "I started auditioning other very good actors who were pretending to be deaf, it made me feel immediately uncomfortable."

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  7. #083

    After the first bank robbery, Griff jokes: "If you don't see me again, it's because I'm dead." Despite being featured prominently in the credits, this character is never seen again in the film after his 5-minute appearance.

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  8. #084

    Extensive preparation was required to create action sequences synchronized with music. Edgar Wright chose the music he wanted before the script was written, so that the script could match the timing of the song exactly. For example, if a song was two and a half minutes long, Wright would write two and a half pages of descriptive action. Wright then had a sound designer take the selected music tracks and add sound effects described in the script, such as tire sounds, gunshots or vocal clips, according to the rhythm of the song. The animation and sound files were then passed on to the film's stunt coordinators and the director of photography, who were instructed to follow them as closely as possible. Before the final actual shots were filmed on 35mm film over multiple attempts, rehearsal shoots were painstakingly rehearsed for several days while being filmed with digital cameras. Finally, the film's editor used footage from the film camera's video assist to create a rough cut after each shot to make sure the timing was correct. Despite this extensive preparation, things did not always go perfectly: the scene in which Baby rewinds a song was improvised on set when Wright realized the song would not be long enough to cover the scene.

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  9. #085

    Edgar Wright said that the final scene in which Baby leaves prison was deliberately left ambiguous (note that neither Baby nor Debora visibly ages), to leave the audience's interpretation open as to whether he was actually paroled, and whether what the narrator says about the rainbow comes true; OR whether it is simply a product of his imagination. At the same time, both actors Ansel Elgort and Lily James disagreed about this. Elgort thinks it really is his imagination, while James thinks it really happened.

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  10. #086

    Baby listens to Queen's "Brighton Rock" on his iPod, and this foreshadows events that will occur later in the film. The song is a reference to the story Brighton Rock written by Graham Greene, in which the character Pinkie is a young man in a gang. Throughout the story, Pinkie tries to erase the traces of all the murders and secrets he has fallen into. He falls in love with a girl named Rose who works as a waitress in a restaurant. At the end of the novel, all the crimes have come back to Pinkie, and after being chased by the police, Pinkie dies. The only person left standing is Rose at the restaurant (the interest of love).

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  11. #087

    The Commodores' song "Easy" was requested for the film by Ansel Elgort after Edgar Wright asked whether it was among the songs he knew by heart.

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  12. #088

    Director of photography Bill Pope called the film "a postmodern musical" and said "there's not singing and dancing in the street but the world acts to music."

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  13. #089

    According to Edgar Wright, every script sent to the lead actors being considered for their roles included an iPod containing a list of songs (arranged in a specific order) to be played while reading a particular scene, in order to emphasize the tone.

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  14. #090

    Most, though not all, of the gunshots in the film are synchronized with the rhythm of the music.

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  15. #091

    Edgar Wright came up with the idea of Doc bringing his "nephew" along while scouting a bank after meeting a real ex-convict who said he did this before a robbery.

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  16. #092

    After the final heist, Baby runs home and finds the wounded Joseph in their searched apartment. Records are scattered everywhere; the most visible ones are the original albums from which the songs in the film's soundtrack were taken.

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  17. #093

    Ansel Elgort had trained in ballet and other dance styles since childhood; this skill proved useful for the action scenes with musical choreography.

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  18. #094

    The large sunglasses and iPod collection Baby owns were not bought by him; they were taken from the cars he stole. In an interview, Edgar Wright said: "If he's been stealing cars since he was 12, the most important things he'd inherit from these stolen cars are people's sunglasses and iPods."

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  19. #095

    The character of Joseph was originally written to be much older, in the mid-80s. CJ Jones (who plays Joseph, a deaf character) was discovered and recommended by casting director Francine Maisler. Jones is deaf in real life; Ansel Elgort had to learn sign language in order to communicate with him.

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  20. #096

    In an introduction he made, Edgar Wright explained that very little or no CGI or green screen was used to film the car chase scenes. All of the driving was done practically.

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  21. #097

    Near the beginning of the film, as Baby flips through channels, several lines of dialogue from different films can be heard ("You are so beautiful", "They grow up so freaking fast", "How's that working out for you?" and "We're partners. There's nothing more important to me more than our friendship"). Each of these lines appears later in the film as a line of dialogue delivered by Baby.

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  22. #098

    The man who recognizes Bats at the gun deal (R. Marcus Taylor) was one of the guards Bats encountered during the armored truck robbery (the other was killed).

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  23. #099

    In a recent interview with THR (The Hollywood Reporter), Edgar Wright explains why Baby (Ansel Elgort) does not use a smartphone for his music and calls. The reason is that modern technology like smartphones can be tracked, allowing Baby to stay off the grid by using burners and iPods.

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  24. #100

    Jon Hamm's role was always written for him and conceived for him; he was the only actor from the first table read to appear in the final film.

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  25. #101

    At Bo's Diner, Darling tells Bats: "when Buddy sees red, all you'll see is black." During the final confrontation between Buddy and Baby in the parking lot, the red lights are flashing on the patrol car Buddy is driving. The bullfighting documentary shown on television at the beginning of the film also foreshadows the events of this confrontation, a documentary stating that the bull sees red, that the bullfighter starts on horseback and must finish on foot.

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  26. #102

    When Baby steals the bag lady's car, he tunes the radio from 104.1 FM to 97.1 FM, and Golden Earring's "Radar Love" plays. Along the way he hits the frequencies of several real Atlanta-area radio stations: * 104.1 FM WALR, what the lady is listening to when Baby first carjacks her, an R&B and jazz station. * 101.5 FM WKHX, a country music station where Baby briefly stops. * 97.1 FM WSRV, a classic rock station where Baby stops. It should also be noted that as Baby scans toward 97.1 FM, he appears to skip more than ten stations from 100.5 FM to 96.5 FM, all of them broadcasting static. The one station that plays radio that is not a real frequency in Atlanta, 100.7 FM, was once a real radio station in the area. Its call letters, WGHR, are currently used by a former station in the Tampa, Florida area, which may explain why Baby hears an old song while lingering on that frequency.

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  27. #103

    In the scene where Baby/Miles flips through channels on Joe's television, a dense amount of news is delivered. "You are so beautiful" on his first meeting with Debbie, "They grow up so freakin' fast" on Doc with his nephew, the post office observer, "How's that workin' out for ya?" on his first meeting with JD, the Monsters Inc. scene is a line Doc uses twice, and the bullfighting documentary ("The bull only sees red; Gaston is running out of options. He started this on horseback and now he has to finish it on foot") foreshadows his final confrontation with Buddy in the parking garage. Darling also refers to Buddy as "ruthless" and says he "sees red" while talking with Bats at the diner.

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  28. #104

    The mural featuring the trumpeter seen in the title sequence was painted by local artists in Atlanta at the request of director Edgar Wright.

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  29. #105

    Baby and Debora frequently dress in black and white. In an interview, Ansel Elgort said this was to contrast with the other characters and give their love story a more timeless feel.

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  30. #106

    The first R-rated film granted permission to show footage from a Disney film (Monsters, Inc. (2001)). As a result, Pete Docter, the director of "Monsters, Inc.," was given a 'special thanks' credit.

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  31. #107

    One of the songs planned for use was Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode," featuring Snoop Dogg, but due to high licensing fees the film used David McCallum's "The Edge," which is prominently sampled in the former.

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  32. #108

    During preparations for the third heist, Baby absentmindedly plays with a toy car and accidentally knocks it off the table. This foreshadows a scene in the third act in which Baby sends a police car from an upper-level parking garage crashing down into the street below.

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  33. #109

    The opening title sequence uses a single-take shot of Baby walking to get coffee and then walking back, reminiscent of the famous opening of Shaun of the Dead (2004), in which Shaun walks to the shop and then returns home in a single shot (this is later repeated when the zombie outbreak begins).

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  34. #110

    The prison from which Baby is released is the same prison used in The Blues Brothers (1980). The shot follows a route similar to the one in The Blues Brothers.

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  35. #111

    Eddie is the only crew member besides Baby who does not die in the film. Griff's fate after leaving the crew is unknown, but his last line, "If you don't see me again, it's because I'm dead," implies he died, though this is not confirmed.

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  36. #112

    Fearing he would lose his connection with the actors or the cameras, Edgar Wright strapped himself to the camera car rather than riding in the chase car. Jon Hamm joked that he had to perform while looking at a "sunburnt muppet" wandering around, referring to Edgar.

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  37. #113

    The prison guard who delivers Baby's mail. Spencer is the vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, whose song "Bellbottoms" is used in the first heist.

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  38. #114

    When Baby brings the pizza, there is a close-up of Wright's finger pressing the doorbell button. Wright also appears in the music store window during the first coffee run. Wright said on Twitter that he was following the shoot and planned to remove the reflection in post, but decided to leave it in.

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  39. #115

    During the opening title sequence, as Baby gets coffee and listens to the lyrics of "Harlem Shuffle," he can be seen in graffiti, signs and posters as he passes by.

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  40. #116

    The picture seen on the back wall of Bo's Diner is the same picture as the postcard Baby received from Debora in prison.

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  41. #117

    A song plays in the background in almost every scene of the film. Also, whenever a song plays in 4/4 time, the shot almost always cuts on one of the four beats.

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  42. #118

    The song playing on the iPod in the red Challenger is "Know How" by Young MC (Marvin Young), from the album 'Stone Cold Rhymin'. The bass line on that track is played by Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, who plays a con man named Eddie in one of the jobs early in the film.

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  43. #119

    Director Edgar Wright tweeted "Meryl Streep's in our movie!" in early 2017. After he deleted it shortly afterward, many people speculated about whether Streep was in the film. Although she does not appear in the film, Streep shows up on a TV screen in a clip from It's Complicated (2009) as Baby channel-surfs.

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  44. #120

    The film, initially set in Los Angeles, was ultimately shot in Atlanta. Other cities with tax incentives were ruled out for being too cold or falling through at the last minute. Edgar Wright got help from local writers and location scouts to help him rewrite the film to make it specific to Atlanta.

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  45. #121

    According to production designer Marcus Rowland, the 50s-themed restaurant where Debora works was converted from an abandoned Denny's.

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  46. #122

    During his interview on the Nerdist Podcast, Edgar Wright admitted that he put a lot of hidden references in this film. He told Chris Hardwick that the license plate of one of the cars represents the release date of another of his films.

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  47. #123

    During promotion, Edgar Wright jokingly referred to the film as part of the Simon and Garfunkel Cinematic Universe and as Marc Webb's The Only Living Boy in New York (2017). Both films take their titles from Simon & Garfunkel songs.

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  48. #124

    At the diner, when Debora comes to take Baby's order, he is absent-mindedly browsing the kids' menu. Later, the other waitress says she thought Baby was a "been comin' in since before me" regular and that his mother worked there. Baby probably comes there and looks at the kids' menu because it reminds him of his childhood with his mother.

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  49. #125

    There are multiple references to the "Back to the Future Trilogy," with Kevin Spacey's character named "Doc" (Back to the Future (1985)) and Jon Bernthal's character named "Griff" (Back to the Future Part II (1989)). Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, who played the character "Needles" in Back to the Future Parts II & III, plays a small role as "Eddie" in this film. The "Doc" character in the film also mentions an old job called "The Spirit of 85" (referring to Atlanta's I-85 highway), the year Back to the Future was first released (1985).

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  50. #126

    Bats literally "knocks some sense" into Baby. The sunglasses he wears throughout the film represent his blinding himself to the violence around him.

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  51. #127

    Bats names three titles as "hex songs:" Guns N' Roses' cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," Eagles' "Hotel California" and Boyz II Men's "End of the Road." "Knockin'" was based on a superstition described by a former prisoner Edgar Wright interviewed, who said that if the song came on the radio before a plan was carried out, the robbery job would be called off. "Hotel California" is one of the songs Jamie Foxx absolutely hates in real life (he improvised that line on set). Although no explanation has yet been given for "End of the Road," it emphasizes the complicated relationship between Baby and Debora throughout the film and that Doc has had to give up certain things for his robberies.

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  52. #128

    The Mercedes-Benz S550 used by Doc was supplied by Mercedes-Benz; all of the ones used were destroyed and scrapped once filming was completed.

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  53. #129

    Because the film was shot in Atlanta, Edgar Wright added many touches to make it genuinely Atlantan. When the Bo's Diner chef picks up the phone and says "What'll ya have?", this is most likely a nod to The Varsity, the famous Atlanta restaurant where employees take your order by asking "What'll ya have?"

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  54. #130

    Edgar Wright contacted hip-hop artists Big Boi and Killer Mike directly to have them appear in the film as guest stars.

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  55. #131

    Griff warns Baby, "One of these days you're gonna get blood on your hands and you're gonna find out that shit don't wash off in the sink." This foreshadows his fate in the final act. In addition, Doc gives Baby a pair of gloves early in the film whose lower part is red like blood, and Baby abandons them after his third robbery, thinking he is free. As soon as Doc brings him back for the final robbery in the hope of clearing his debt, Griff's "prophecy" begins to come true.

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  56. #132

    Baby's first walk to get coffee (set to "Harlem Shuffle") takes him out of the Healy Building on Forsyth St NW, turns the first corner on the left toward Poplar St NW, and then leads him to a café on the corner where Fairlie St NW is located. While many real landmarks are still visible on Google Maps (such as the Sidebar), other elements (such as graffiti and an ATM) were clearly added by the filmmakers.

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  57. #133

    Jamie Foxx's character Bats has two sets of tattoos, one on each side of his neck, featuring bats that reference his nickname in the film (which appear and disappear throughout the film). He is also shown (in the poster) with a gun tattoo on his right hand. However, in every scene he appears in the film, the gun tattoo is on his left hand, while his right hand has a glove.

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  58. #134

    In addition to one Challenger, Dodge provided 15 Dodge Chargers; when filming was completed, all but two were destroyed. 2 Chevrolet Blazers were used.

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  59. #135

    Although Edgar Wright insisted on using less CGI, the visual effects company Double Negative provided approximately 450 VFX shots, mostly for cleanup, digital cars, background objects and the compositing of practical shots.

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  60. #136

    Early in the film, Baby was instructed to get an Avalanche or a Tahoe; this was something big in case he had to ram a police car into a wall; this foreshadowed the way Baby rams Buddy's stolen police car into a wall.

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  61. #137

    The ending of the film is partly inspired by the 1938 gangster film Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), as in both the criminals take responsibility for their actions and are willing to face the consequences.

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  62. #138

    J. D. drops his gun because he is the only crew member without a strap on his rifle.

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  63. #139

    During the scene of drinking coffee through the music store window, there is a man who acts like a mannequin but starts moving after Baby plays the trumpet.

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  64. #140

    In a scene featuring Baby's home audio equipment, you can see the album cover of The Incredible Bongo Band's album 'Bongo Rock'. One of the songs on this album, "Apache", became famous in the seventies when it was used for mixing by pioneering hip hop DJ Kool Herc. In fact, many consider him one of the first to mix and scratch records to create new songs. The "Apache" break sample is still used today. Thus, the album cover can be seen as a reference to the early pioneers of mixing, Baby's predecessors.

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  65. #141

    In the opening scene of the title, as Baby walks toward the café, he passes in front of a musical instrument store called "B. E. Brass". "B. E." is a tribute to the song "Harlem Shuffle" performed on stage by Bob & Earl.

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  66. #142

    When Baby sings the Golden Earring song "Radar Love", the car he is in is painted Radar Purple.

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  67. #143

    At about the 43rd minute of the film, Baby is counting the money he earned delivering pizza. One of the 1-dollar bills has the website www.ThisSiteMakesYouMoney.com on it. As of 2019, the website is no longer available.

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  68. #144

    During the second heist, the characters wear Austin Powers masks from the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). The Damned's song "Neat Neat Neat", which plays during this sequence, contains the lyrics 'be a man, a certain kind of mystery man'.

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  69. #145

    Almost the entire film was shot in Atlanta; in the opening walk, you can see that Doc's office is inside the Healey Building in Downtown. Strangely, the bank in the first heist (which is not a real bank in real life) is in the Candler Building, less than three blocks away, not even a mile by car.

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  70. #146

    Later in the film, in an ordinary driving scene, Bats, Buddy and Darling discuss their real names. Buddy says they use "code names, MONIKERS." Then Bats asks Darling what her real name is, and Darling replies: "MONICA."

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  71. #147

    One of the cars used as a stunt car, a 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX Limited, received a series of modifications for the film by Allpro Subaru of Alpharetta, Georgia, and further modifications for shooting were made by Doug Wilkes at DBW Motorsport. These included a conversion to a rear-wheel-drive system, upgraded rear differentials and a turbocharger from a 2004 WRX STI. It was also used in the music videos for "Chase Me" by Danger Mouse, Big Boi & Run the Jewels' Subaru track (which includes scenes from the film) and Sony's video for the Los Angeles premiere. Despite having "a few minor dings and scratches," being repainted from Crystal Grey Metallic with the odometer rolled up to 168,000 miles and being described as in good condition, it was sold at auction via eBay in August 2017 for $69,100 (enough for two new WRXs).

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  72. #148

    During one robbery the gang wears Austin Powers masks. Kevin Spacey played Dr. Evil in Goldmember (2002) in the film-within-a-film "Austinpussy."

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  73. #149

    Writer-director Edgar Wright conceived Baby Driver in 1994; he adapted the film's original planned opening into the 2003 music video he directed for Mint Royale's "Blue Song" (Mint Royale: Blue Song (2003)), starring Noel Fielding as a music-loving getaway driver for a group of bank robbers. A clip of the music video is briefly shown in the film as the main character switches between television channels. Emma Stone and Michael Douglas were also expected to be in the cast. Wright hired Ryan Heffington as the film's choreographer to work on the actors' timing and movements and synchronize them with the music.

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  74. #150

    The characters' real names are revealed throughout the film: that Bats's is Leon, which Doc states during a tense conversation; that Darling's is Monica, which Bats reveals after asking her following a robbery; that Buddy's is Jason, which is mentioned over the police radio during the final showdown; and that Baby's is, of course, Miles, which appears at the end of Debora's letter. Griff's and Doc's real names are never explicitly stated, though it can be assumed that Griff is short for Griffin.

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  75. #151

    Baby refers to the police as "scum," paraphrasing another Edgar Wright film, Hot Fuzz (2007). Both films feature a 2006 model Impreza.

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  76. #152

    Walter Hill, who directed The Driver, the film that inspired this one, appears in the film. When Baby goes to prison, his prison number is 28071978; the release date of The Driver was July 28, 1978.

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  77. #153

    Kevin Spacey and Jon Bernthal have both appeared in films in the DC universe: Spacey appeared in Superman Returns (2006), and Bernthal lent his voice to Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016).

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  78. #154

    When the doctor yells at Baby, "Don't feed me any more lines from Monsters Inc. It pisses me off!" Coincidentally, Kevin Spacey had voiced Hopper in the Pixar film A Bug's Life.

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  79. #155

    While Baby waits for coffee at Octane, Debora passes by the window. Baby follows her from right to left.

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Behind the Scenes (4)

  1. #156

    Creating action sequences synchronized to music required extensive preparation. Edgar Wright chose the music he wanted before the script was written, so that the script could match the song's timing exactly; for example, if a song was two and a half minutes long, Wright would write two and a half pages of descriptive action. Wright then had a sound designer take the chosen music tracks and add sound effects described in the script, such as tire sounds, gunshots or vocal clips, in time with the song's rhythm. The animation and sound files were then passed to the film's stunt coordinators and the director of photography, who were instructed to follow them as closely as possible. Before the final real shots were filmed on 35mm, the sequences were painstakingly rehearsed for several days while being shot on digital cameras. Finally, the film's editor used footage from the camera's video assist to create a rough cut after each shot to make sure the timing was right. Despite this extensive preparation, things did not always go perfectly: the scene in which Baby rewinds a song was improvised on set when Wright realized the song would not be long enough to cover the scene.

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  2. #157

    Cinematographer Bill Pope called the film "a postmodern musical" and said, "there's no singing and dancing in the street but the world acts to music."

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  3. #158

    Edgar Wright generally does not allow improvisation on his sets, but this time he made a few exceptions, such as for Jamie Foxx.

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  4. #159

    One of the cars used as a stunt car, a 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX Limited, received a series of modifications for the film by Allpro Subaru of Alpharetta, Georgia, and further modifications for the shoot by Doug Wilkes at DBW Motorsport. These included a conversion to rear-wheel drive, upgraded rear differentials and a turbocharger from a 2004 WRX STI. It was also used in music videos for Danger Mouse's "Chase Me," Subaru's Big Boi & Run the Jewels track (featuring scenes from the film) and Sony's video for the Los Angeles premiere. Despite having "a few minor dings and scratches," being repainted from Crystal Grey Metallic and having an odometer reading of 168,000 miles, and being described as in good condition, it was auctioned via eBay in August 2017 for $69,100 (enough for two new WRXs).

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Characters & Cast (3)

  1. #160

    When Edgar Wright began writing the script, he had only ten songs. According to the released playlist, the final film had thirty. "Smokey Joe's La La" was a very late replacement for B. Bumble & The Stingers' "Nut Rocker" during post-production, because after several test screenings Wright felt it "started to get on his tits," and part of that scene was reshot. The Commodores' "Easy" was also included after Ansel Elgort was cast, because Wright learned during auditions that it was one of the songs Elgort knew very well and could sing/lip-sync to. That moment won him the lead role.

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  2. #161

    Several actors auditioned for the role of Baby's foster father Joseph, but the only one who was actually deaf was CJ Jones.

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  3. #162

    Fellow director and Edgar Wright's friend Robert Rodriguez suggested Eiza González for the role of Darling.

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Easter Eggs & References (9)

  1. #163
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    Baby listens to Queen's "Brighton Rock" on his iPod, which foreshadows events that occur later in the film. The song is a reference to the story Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, in which the character Pinkie is a young man in a gang. Throughout the story Pinkie tries to erase the traces of all the murders and secrets he has become entangled in. He falls in love with a girl named Rose, who works as a waitress in a restaurant. At the end of the novel all the crimes have caught up with Pinkie, and after being chased by the police Pinkie dies. The only one left standing is Rose at the restaurant (the love interest).

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  2. #164

    Referring to the character Doc, director Edgar Wright described him as "like one of those awful father figures who can be great in rare moments."

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  3. #165

    Fearing he would lose his communication link with the actors or the cameras, Edgar Wright strapped himself to the camera car instead of riding in the chase car. Jon Hamm joked that he had to perform while looking at a wandering "sunburnt muppet," referring to Edgar.

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  4. #166

    A song plays in the background of almost every scene in the film. Also, whenever a song plays in 4/4 time, the shot almost always cuts on one of the four beats.

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  5. #167

    During an interview on the Nerdist Podcast, Edgar Wright admitted he put a lot of hidden references into the film. He told Chris Hardwick that the license plate on one of the cars represents the release date of another of his films.

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  6. #168

    There are multiple references to the Back to the Future trilogy, with Kevin Spacey's character "Doc" (Back to the Future, 1985) and Jon Bernthal's character "Griff" (Back to the Future Part II, 1989). Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist who played "Needles" in Back to the Future Parts II & III, has a small role in this film as "Eddie." The film's "Doc" character also mentions an old job called "The Spirit of 85" (a reference to Atlanta's I-85 highway), the year the first Back to the Future was released (1985).

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  7. #169

    Because Baby Driver was shot in Atlanta, Edgar Wright added many touches to make it genuinely Atlantan. When the chef at Bo's Diner picks up the phone and says "What'll ya have?", it is most likely a nod to The Varsity, the famous Atlanta restaurant where staff take your order by asking "What'll ya have?".

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  8. #170

    Edgar Wright contacted the hip-hop artists Big Boi and Killer Mike directly to have them appear in the film as guest actors.

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  9. #171

    Jamie Foxx's character Bats has two sets of tattoos, one on each side of his neck, featuring bats as a nod to his nickname in the film (which appear and disappear throughout the film). He is also shown (in the poster) with a gun tattoo on his right hand. However, in every scene he appears in in the film, the gun tattoo is on his left hand, while his right hand has a glove.

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Deeper Meaning (6)

  1. #172
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    At Bo's Diner, Darling tells Bats, "when Buddy sees red, all you'll see is black." During Buddy and Baby's final confrontation in the parking garage, the police car Buddy is driving has red lights flashing. The bullfighting documentary shown on television at the start of the film also foreshadows the events of this confrontation, noting that the bull sees red, that the bullfighter begins on horseback and must finish on foot.

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  2. #173

    Bats literally "knocks some sense" into Baby. The sunglasses Baby wears throughout the film represent his blinding himself to the violence around him.

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  3. #174
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    Griff warns Baby, "One of these days you're gonna get blood on your hands and you're gonna find out that shit don't wash off in the sink". This foreshadows his fate in the final act. In addition, Doc gives Baby a pair of gloves early in the film whose lower part is red like blood, and Baby abandons them after his third heist, thinking he is free. As soon as Doc brings him back for the final heist, not expecting to save him from the scrap heap, Griff's "prophecy" begins to come true.

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  4. #175
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    The ending of the film is partly inspired by the 1938 gangster film Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), since in both the criminals take responsibility for their actions and are willing to face the consequences.

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  5. #176

    The vinyl record collection in Joe's apartment implies that he may have been passionate about music before losing his hearing.

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  6. #177
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    Walter Hill, who directed The Driver, the film that inspired this one, appears in the film. When Baby goes to prison his prison number is 28071978; The Driver's release date was July 28, 1978.

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Career & Awards (1)

  1. #178

    When Edgar Wright shot Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey in the same frame, he would whisper to a colleague, "Double Oscar shot!"

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Life & Family (1)

  1. #179

    At the diner, when Debora comes to take Baby's order, he is absent-mindedly looking over the kids' menu. Later, another waitress says that Baby has been coming in "since before me" and that she thinks his mother worked there. Baby probably comes there and looks at the kids' menu because it reminds him of his childhood with his mother.

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