Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver” is a surprise summer hit, an original car-chase saga set to a lively soundtrack that’s a far cry from reductive Hollywood formula. The movie, which generated more than $40 million in its first week of release, started its engines back at the SXSW Film Festival.
But it also benefited from a lot hype in the days leading up to release, and may have found no greater advocate than Guillermo del Toro. The “Hellboy” and “Pacific Rim” director tweeted out a lengthy string of praises for the movie just days before it arrived in theaters. Reached by phone over the holiday weekend while “Baby Driver” was steadily climbing to second place in the box office, del Toro — currently finishing up the score to his WWII supernatural film “The Shape of Water” — said that his impulse to advocate for “Baby Driver” came from a very personal place.
But it also benefited from a lot hype in the days leading up to release, and may have found no greater advocate than Guillermo del Toro. The “Hellboy” and “Pacific Rim” director tweeted out a lengthy string of praises for the movie just days before it arrived in theaters. Reached by phone over the holiday weekend while “Baby Driver” was steadily climbing to second place in the box office, del Toro — currently finishing up the score to his WWII supernatural film “The Shape of Water” — said that his impulse to advocate for “Baby Driver” came from a very personal place.
- 7/7/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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