“So, what’s going on with ‘Ant-Man’?”
It was probably the most-asked question posed to Edgar Wright during the press jaunt for “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” and while his answer was more or less the same each time around — still working on it, but something he’s not really going to get to in earnest until after his work making/promoting ‘Scott Pilgrim’ — he has spilled an interesting nugget about his take on the material.
In a Q&A with Vanity Fair, Wright has revealed that his take on the material will be “essentially a high-tech spy heist film with somebody with a very particular power.” Wright adds that while “shrinking man” films generally get a bad rap, he says “Ant-Man” will twist the genre a little bit, “I know there’s a big stigma attached to it, mostly because every movie about shrinking has been about people in peril. I think it’d be great to do a shrinking film about a bad-ass secret agent.”
And while this is definitely exciting news, it falls in line with Wright’s comments last year about the project when he said, “It’s true that the character is not considered one of the Marvel brand leaders and that is precisely what excites me about it. I want to make a film inside the Marvel universe that is something a little different; a genre film within the superhero genre so to speak.” So a Marvel universe heist film? Sign us up.
All that said, there is still another draft of the script to be written, and it’s conceivable Wright could jump to another project entirely. But it’s safe to say that once the month is out and his duties for ‘Scott Pilgrim’ are over, Wright is probably just going to take some time to get some sleep first.