Edgar Wright Leaves Marvel's Ant-Man Film

Lol talk about a baseless prediction magnet thread. Came for crazy speculation and pessimism on a Friday, was not disappointed!

Yes, I thought Marvel was better then this....... Oh yes, they do have a long history of choosing lesser known directors and producing mega hits. You would almost think if they decided in this instance that it was not gonna work that they know what their doing huh? I will reserve judgement like always until I actually see the film.

Hope this doesn't ruin the movie.

Good hopefully hank pym will be antman

I'm ok with this, I really don't want Ant-Man to be a comedy movie.

this .... well for the most part.

Iron man 3 was a pretty big letdown to me.

Lol you do know it's owned by Marvel right? Comedy is a must.

....difference in vision? They wouldn't even have an Ant Man movie coming out if it weren't for Wright's vision. I'm a bigger fan of the Marvel Studios movies than I am of those made by Wright, but I can't help but feel the party in the wrong here is the one who has a history of alienating directors, artists, and actors.

@patrat18: Marvel said this was going to be more of a strait up comedy film compared to the rest of their films, and I really don't want that, because there is soooo much they could and should do with this film.

Yeah, but at the same time Edgar kept pushing the movie back more and more. So maybe it was the last straw that he wanted to do something else that was annoying them. We won't really know why they parted until it leaks until then I'm not going to blame either side because it really could have been either of them.

GOOD. This movie needs to fall apart and have a total rewrite with Hank Pym being more then an old man.

Marvel dropped tHe ball on tHis one, for me. I, MetH, Have lost all interest in tHis film. THe directors love for Antman is wHat made me interested in tHe film. WitH Him gone, it is game over, for me.

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It's been put out there that Mr Wright has already behind schedule and losing money on the project, Marvel didn't have the confidence or patience in him to get the schedule back on track and back in budget. It would have been his first foray in to a large studio movie, compared to the Cornetto trilogy, which are small compared to anything Marvel produce.

Man, that's a real bummer. Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End are brilliant and I would have loved to see Wright apply his talents to the MCU. Oh well.

I'm definitely bummed about this news, but if they can't agree it's probably for the best.

I guess things were going a bit too smoothly for Marvel. It'll be interesting to see how the Studio responds to this kind of adversity.

It is funny how quickly people jump ship on this now lol. If Edgar Wright was the ONLY draw for you then it's probably for the best. This movie always had a lot more going for it once we learned about the amazing cast it has. This movie is ready to go, just needs a solid director.

This could be a good thing. Marvel has had a pretty awesome run with their films. If Wrights idea didn't build on the MCU why go down that path? That is not to say Wright is a bad director, I love his films, but maybe it just didn't fit where they were wanting to go.

Well this proves one thing. Marvel is extremely film anti-director; while I understand what they are doing, not letting a director doing something creative is a waste of potential.

I really wasn't hyped for this movie, so this doesn't affect me too much.

But as others have said, let's hope it's now about Hank Pym.

I wasn't to interested in the first place, but for the dude to leave after 8 years of working on this is crazy. The worst part is he pitched the idea to Marvel so to leave because of creative differences damn, this is like the 3rd director they have angered.

I'm not surprised, I really think Iron Man 3 is more a exception to the rule now because RDJ being able to name the director. The lack of individual identy within direction in Thor 2 and Cap 2 is really one of the reasons I don't like them as much as their first entries. Cap 2 more for having to be brought to heel of blockbuster requirment but it's part of the reason.

Getting quality TV guys like Russo Bros and Alan Taylor is a totally reasonable thing. They were both able to continue the Marvel house style ably. But that leads to justified complaints of them not feeling unique and just part of a greater boring whole.

This departure dose have me interested in how Guardians turns out in the end maybe Gunn can smuggle that humor in.

This is a bummer.

Bring in Michelle MacLaren!

@mrmazz: Really? Humor? Many people like myself get tired of some of the shoe horned in humor like in Thor 2.

I want to know what this creative difference was?

@lukehero: not sure what you mean by "humor" I thought the sight gags and energy brought by Hiddleston were fantastic. Just thor 2 as a whole was dead emotionally and character wise due to an instance on a mile a minute plot instead of using lot to inform character.

@mrmazz: I mean I am sad about the director leaving. I was just as pumped. Thor 2 was just flat out bad. The forced humor involved the Doctor acting like a nutball every scene.

@lukehero: o that yea that was totally dumb but at least kind of logical from a character perspective given Loki was noodling around in his head. Wish they'd kind of gone tragic dark there.

@beaconofstrength: I know right..... :((

This is sad. Ant-Man was his pitch and his labor, it's sad that Marvel couldn't let him do what he wanted to.

Why can't we have nice thing?...

This is great news. Love Edgar Wright's films, but seriously I didn't for one moment believe that his quirky comedic style was suitable for what is essentially an action sci-fi super hero.

The whole 60's super spy heist premise sounded really corny anyway and Marvel have edged out towards having way too much comedy in their films lately. Thankfully "Captain America-The Winter Soldier" had a much better balance of action and drama with sporadic use of humor.

I for one did not want to see an alternate comedy re-imagining of Ant-Man. Curious to see how this all pans out.

What are Joe & Anthony Russo doing?

I really hope Zack Snyder does the same thing and removes himself from any further DC projects. that would be swell.

This makes me feel sad :(

I honestly don't care.

I have never heard of this guy and this does not effect my opinions on the movie. But all of you dissing MCU movies can get outta here because the only one that hasn't been amazing is Iron Man 2.

@jonny_anonymous: Honestly a Hank Pym film would be no fun at all. It would be a depressing and very sad and more depressing story about a bi-polar scientist with multiply personalty disorder. He is a interesting character but he would not appeal to the average movie-going audience like the more light hearted Scott Lang. But this is just what I think so don't kill me if you don't agree.

Meh don't care.

I read somewhere that he left because Marvel basically went and changed his original script. What's good of hiring these top name directors and never letting them breathe or push their creative limits (something Edgar could actually do at Warner Brothers ironically.)

What a shame.

Absolutely gutted V___V

@bumpyboo: *snuggles*

@darling_luna: Thank you sweetie, kitty snuggles definitely help :) <3

@bumpyboo: *turns on the Cornetto trilogy*

@darling_luna: Good call! ^_^

@bumpyboo: I think world's end gets a little underrated, I happen to love it

@darling_luna: So agree with you there, watched it a few nights back and it was awesome! Unexpectedly touching too in places :)

@bumpyboo: Gary is probably my favorite Pegg character heeh, probably : D

Welcome to Hollywood. Name me a Hollywood studio that hasn't alienated directors, artists, and actors during the course of history. Right or wrong they all have and will continue to do so. It's business.

At the end of the day, Wright cannot fully impose his quirky alternate re-imagining or vision for Ant-Man if it doesn't tie in or support the MCU. It's been 8 years. He knew that. Something else is also at play here.

Ant-Man is Marvel's property and they have every prerogative to act in the best interests of their characters.

@feartheliving said:

@lyrafay said:

I read somewhere that he left because Marvel basically went and changed his original script. What's good of hiring these top name directors and never letting them breathe or push their creative limits (something Edgar could actually do at Warner Brothers ironically.)

It's true.

@patrat18 said:

@feartheliving said:

@lyrafay said:

I read somewhere that he left because Marvel basically went and changed his original script. What's good of hiring these top name directors and never letting them breathe or push their creative limits (something Edgar could actually do at Warner Brothers ironically.)

It's true.

Hey if you want to believe that go right ahead.