Kevin Spacey Follows Ansel Elgort To BABY DRIVER and BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB

Deadline reports that Oscar-winning House of Cards star Kevin Spacey has joined the cast of two new movies, both of which coincidentally star young up-and-comer Ansel Elgort in a leading role.

First up, he's joining Edgar Wright's new action movie musical Baby Driver, in which he'll reportedly play a crime boss that convinces the title character (Elgort) to be a getaway driver for him. The outlet originally reported that Jamie Foxx was going to be playing the crime lord in that film, but though he's supposedly still in the movie, I guess this role has gone to Spacey and Foxx will be playing someone else. (It's unclear. Thanks, Deadline.) Jon Hamm plays a cop-killing bank robber and Lily James will play a waitress who is the female lead/love interest. The movie is scheduled to skid into theaters on March 17th, 2017, and you can read much more about it right here.

Next, Spacey will star in Billionaire Boys Club, which has Elgort and Kingsman: The Secret Service star Taron Egerton lined up as the leads. Variety has a good synopsis:

Elgort will play financial genius Joe Hunt and Egerton will portray tennis pro Dean Karny. The film will follow the true story of the rise and fall of two outsiders, whose investment pool propelledthem into the upper echelons of Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

With Hunt’s math skills and Karny’s connections to the powerful and privileged trust fund offspring, the duo convinced a clique of ex-classmates from the Harvard School for Boys to invest in the Billionaire Boys Club — leading to the duo becoming stars of the Los Angeles social scene. Their lavish lifestyle and impressive returns obscured a snowballing fraud with the Ponzi scheme beginning to collapse when an investment by Beverly Hills high-roller Ron Levin turned out to be worthless.

As long as the paperwork goes through, Spacey will star as Ron Levin in the film, which is being directed by Wonderland helmer James Cox.

I think it's pretty obvious that everyone here is going to be looking forward to Baby Driver more than Billionaire Boys Club, but the latter could still end up being a good movie in its own right. Adding Spacey is certainly a step in the right direction.