It had seemed that writer/director Edgar Wright had caught a huge break back in 2006 when he was given the opportunity to helm Marvel’s Ant-Man, but apparently, it just wasn’t meant to be. Almost a decade later he left the project over creative differences while Peyton Reed went on to make the superhero blockbuster, which was well-received both critically and commercially.
While promoting his upcoming sonically-charged heist action film Baby Driver, Wright was asked to clarify the creative differences that made him leave Ant-Man. Speaking to Variety, the filmmaker explained:
“The most diplomatic answer is I wanted to make a Marvel movie but I don’t think they really wanted to make an Edgar Wright movie. I was the writer-director on it and then they wanted to do a draft without me, and having written all my other movies, that’s a tough thing to move forward. Suddenly becoming a director for hire on it, you’re sort of less emotionally invested and you start to wonder why you’re there, really.”
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The good news is that the success of Edgar Wright’s filmmaking career has not slowed down one bit, as he seems to have another smashing success with Baby Driver [read our review here]. Still, I suppose we will always wonder what an Edgar Wright directed Ant-Man would have been like…
Originally published June 23, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
