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[Image] KNB FX Created a Michael Myers Mask for ‘Baby Driver,’ But the Film Never Got Permission to Use It
There’s a fun scene in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver that pays homage to the Halloween franchise, with one of the film’s characters accidentally picking up Austin Powers “Mike Myers” masks for a heist, instead of the “Michael Myers” masks that were requested. “It should be the Halloween mask,” Jamie Foxx’s character screams. “The killer dude from Halloween!”
As it turns out, that scene was originally supposed to feature a couple Michael Myers masks!
Makeup master Greg Nicotero just shared a fun behind the scenes anecdote on his Instagram, revealing that his KNB team had created a new Myers mask for the scene.
“One of my favorite jokes that didn’t make the final cut of Edgar Wright’s brilliant BABY DRIVER was the scene when our “heroes” were sitting in the car talking about the need for a Michael Myers “Halloween” mask and the gag was supposed to be two of them were wearing the mask from the horror film Halloween and one of them was wearing an Austin Powers mask,” Nicotero explains. “I thought it was really funny and very very clever so we created this mask (sculpted by Garrett Immel) for the movie and unfortunately were unable to get permission to use it so the mask sits proudly on a zombie bust in my office!”
Check out the unused KNB mask below, along with the film’s “Mike Myers” scene.
UPDATE: After we hit publish on this, Wright himself chimed in with more info…
True! Because of the upcoming ‘Halloween’ reboot, the rights holders didn’t want to let us use the Michael Myers mask* so we went with three Austin Powers masks instead of just the one – with Mike Myers blessing. (*Could we have used an inside out Captain Kirk mask instead?). https://t.co/80QwURbTqG
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) September 12, 2018
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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