Though it’s been a looooooong time since there’s been news about the Edgar Wright-directed ANT-MAN movie, the project is still crawling along.
Of all people, that scoop comes from “Scandalous” Stanley Lieber, himself.
You know we’re living in a new era when Twitter's a source of news. All this hoopla's been started because of three little, itty-bitty tweets. The first two were from Lee’s account, @smilinstanlee…
@smilinstanlee: To make up for my previous grievous error, here's a little item that may have escaped you. Marvel is prepping a movie starring-- Ant Man!
@smilinstanlee: I had lunch with the cool, young director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and, as you'd imagine, we had fun discussing the tiny hero
The third was from @edgarwright, giving the British director’s side of this meeting of the minds.
@edgarwright: Sometimes you shouldn’t meet your heroes in case they disappoint. @ smilinstanlee does not disappoint.
It’s like Akira Kurosawa’s classic, multiple-perspective samurai epic ROSHOMON in pithy statements of 140-words-or-less!
Wright’s been attached to make the man-that-shrinks-to-the-size-of-an-ant movie since ’06. Since then, he’s made the Bruckheimer cop movie-spoof HOT FUZZ, directed the fake trailer DON’T for the exploitation-throwback GRINDHOUSE and he’s been making SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (another comic-based movie). For a while, there was talk that Pixar was going to make the ANT-MAN movie after Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, but that’s seemed to have fizzled out.
I’ve talked about how I think Marvel’s choices of directors (Kenneth Branagh for THOR, Joe Johnston for CAPTAIN AMERICA and, of course, Jon Favreau for IRON MAN) have been very appropriate for the source material. While I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Wright’s brazen feature filmography, though, that irascible Silly Side of me can’t help wondering why Johnston isn’t doing this project in addition to Cap. Why? The man did HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS. Its execution of the “shrunken person in a colossally-sized world” conceit is surely more in line with this -- even more so than INNERSPACE and FANTASTIC VOYAGE.
After you have some waking nightmares of drowning in a bowl of cheerios, go ahead and chime about all this hullaballoo. But comments CANNOT exceed 140 words!
-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia Comics. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.
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