Published
A script, which is more than most of this tracker has
Baby Driver was released in 2017 and the sequel conversation started before the year was out. That summer the expectation was that a second film was likely. Nine years later the expectation has partly earned itself out and partly not.
What is confirmed: Edgar Wright said in October 2025 that a screenplay for a sequel exists, and that he intends to direct it. That is a meaningfully stronger position than most entries here can claim. The majority of stalled sequels have an idea, a wish, or a star talking warmly. This one has a document.
What is not confirmed: a greenlight, a studio commitment, a cast, or a date.
Why a finished script is not a green light
This entry is a good illustration of a distinction the tracker leans on constantly.
Wright has been explicit that most filmmaking depends on things a director does not decide — timing, financing, and who happens to be available when the money is. A script solves the creative problem and leaves the logistical one untouched. Plenty of screenplays by well-regarded directors sit finished for years, and some never shoot.
So the status here is in development, which in this tracker means real work has happened with no date fixed. It is two steps below confirmed, and the missing steps are a studio saying yes and a calendar entry, neither of which follows automatically from a good script.
The sequencing problem
Wright’s own comments place the sequel after other commitments rather than next. That matters more than it sounds: a director-driven project that is queued behind its own director is exposed to everything that can happen in the interval, a change of studio priorities, a shift in what the market will fund, or simply the passage of enough time that the original’s momentum is spent.
Nine years have already passed since the original. A film whose appeal rests substantially on its soundtrack, its editing rhythm and one central performance is not automatically easier to continue after a long gap; the tone is specific, and specificity is harder to reassemble than a premise.
What would move this entry to confirmed
A dated release commitment, or production visibly beginning. Casting announcements would be a strong intermediate signal, because they imply the money exists — a studio does not attach performers to a film it has not decided to make.
Until one of those appears, the honest summary is the one Wright himself gave: the script is written, and the rest is not up to him.