Here, director Edgar Wright breaks down how that instantly legendary chase sequence came to be.
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The result is both a jaw-dropping scene-setter and a thrilling mini-movie in its own right.
I had made [the low-budget comedy Western]A Fistful of Fingers.
I moved to London to edit it and I was trying to figure out what the next step was.
I didnt know what the movie was yet, but I started to imagine this car chase.
Youve seen a bank robbery and a car chase in thousands of films, he says.
How could you present it in a different way?
And that was the idea of doing it without dialog and totally set to one song.
I wrote the scenetothe song.
I was very specific about it.
The Jon Spencer track is five minutes long okay, this is going to be a five-page scene.
[Laughs] Its very specific about where things are.
A different movie would have done that in a parking lot with green screen, says Prescott.
There wasnt a lot of room for error, man.
And that, in the first 45 seconds, is the dichotomy of his character.
Poor Jon Bernthal was the one actor God bless him who came back sort of eight times.
And Jon Bernthal said this thing to me which was so funny.
He goes, Listen, man, if this st was easy, every asshole would do it.
[Laughs] I thought thats probably something good to go on your tombstone.
If this st was easy, every asshole would do it!
Watch the opening sequence ofBaby Driverabove.
