Due to bowing out of this summer’s Ant-Man, it’ll be over a four-year gap between Edgar Wright‘s The World’s End and his follow-up, Baby Driver, so to help with the wait, the director is offering up his least-seen film. If you’re in London or Los Angeles later next month, one can celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut A Fistful of Fingers.
Before we dive further into that, we do have a promising update on his new film. With Ansel Elgort, Lily James, and Jamie Foxx part of the cast of Baby Driver, we have another addition. The Wrap reports Mad Men star Jon Hamm has joined the project as a bank robber in a villainous gang. The story centers on a getaway driver who works for a dangerous crime boss, and music is heavily figured in, thanks to his personal soundtrack. Baby Driver will open on March 17, 2017.
Back to A Fistful of Fingers: Wright, on his official site, notes that it’s his “debut 16mm teen western that I made at the tender age of 20 years old. I’m not going to say it’s good as Citizen Kane but it is a hell of a lot sillier.” Returning to the theater it made its debut at, UK’s Prince Charles Cinema, it’ll screen on November 24. A few days earlier, on the 21st, Los Angeles’s Cinefamily will show the picture.
For the occasion, Paul Shipper has created a great new poster, so check it out below, along with a synopsis, the opening, and a young Wright discussing it back in 1994.
A wildly funny, stupefyingly silly Spaghetti Western spoof, A Fistful of Fingers is a jaw-dropping gag-a-minute mashup of Sergio Leone, Monty Python and the Zucker Brothers, hilariously fueled by its young cast & crew’s can’t miss enthusiasm and teen spirit attitude. It’s a one-of-a-kind parody packed wall-to-wall with irreverent humor, dusty charm and pop culture obsession, every frame filled with Wright’s unmistakable & completely contagious love for movie-making.
