Edgar Wright puts Baby Driver in the fast lane after Ant-Man crash

Edgar Wright's next film will be Baby Driver, a project described as "a wild spin on the action and crime genre" by Empire magazine.

Deadline reports that the British director will resurrect the project after his high-profile departure from Marvel's comic book movie Ant-Man. Baby Driver will be put together with Working Title, the British production company with which Wright collaborated on his "Three Cornettos" comedy trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End.

Wright originally intended the film, for which he also wrote the screenplay, to follow 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs the World into production. Deadline says Baby Driver, which is reportedly being fast-tracked, will be a "collision of crime, action, music and sound". It is not known if Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who appeared in all the Cornettos films, will star.

Little else is known about the project, but Baby Driver is the title of an album track from the iconic 1970 Simon and Garfunkel album Bridge Over Troubled Water. The lyrics tell the story of a boy who lives a comfortable life in a protected home until he decides to have his first sexual experience. Wright suggested the film might focus on music in an interview with Total Film in 2011. "I've written a script which is kind of like a musical," he said. "A departure for me in some ways."

In June, Wright walked away from Ant-Man, which will star Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, after eight years of development due to creative differences with Marvel. He later tweeted a Photoshopped shot of Buster Keaton (a victim of the old Hollywood studio system) in an apparent rebuke to the studio before deleting it. The British director was thought to be unhappy that Marvel commissioned rewrites of his screenplay with Joe Cornish for the film. Ant-Man will now shoot next month with Yes Man's Peyton Reed taking over as director.