With Ansel Elgort in place for one of the leads in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, another main role has gone to Cinderella’s Lily James.
Baby Driver will chronicle the high-speed, musically influenced life of a young getaway driver (Elgort), who grooves to his personal soundtrack on jobs to keep him at the top of his game (think Drive meets Wright's stylish filmmaking). But when he’s coerced into working for a crime boss on a doomed heist, his entire world is put into danger.
James, who has seen her star rise faster thanks to Downton Abbey and now her success with the latest Disney live-action fairy tale, is on board to play a still-unknown other key role in the movie.
Wright has had this one idling in the back of his brain for several years now, but put it aside to focus on developing and preparing to shoot Ant-Man for Marvel. When that didn’t happen, Baby Driver was promoted to his next project. James will next be seen in culinary comedy Adam James alongside Bradley Cooper (which will be dished up on October 2) and as Elizabeth Bennett in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, arriving here on February 19 next year.