So last week apparently, EW reported that Pixar was “said to already be eyeballing an ‘Ant-Man’ movie.”
So Disney buys Marvel, Disney owns Pixar, Pixar wants “Ant-Man,” right?
Where did this leave “Shaun Of the Dead,” and “Hot Fuzz” director Edgar Wright’s proposed take on the “Ant-Man” film? Out in the cold we asked?
Nope. Chud heard from Wright himself who said he is “still attached to Ant Man and indeed am still working on a second draft with Joe Cornish. That had to take a back seat while I worked on ‘Scott Pilgrim,’ but am keen to get back into it once I get into post. The news that Pixar is involved is not wholly accurate and a little premature to comment on.”
When Marvel head Kevin Feige announced “The Avengers” line-up recently, “Ant-Man,” was not on the list which lead many to speculate and or worry that perhaps this meant Wright’s version wasn’t on track, but it appears to be something entirely different. Marvel doesn’t really seem to think Ant-Man is Avengers-worthy despite being an original member (frankly this makes sense, he seems too goofy for a modern context and Wright suggests this is perfect for him).
“It’s true that the character is not considered one of the Marvel brand leaders and that is precisely what excites me about it,” Wright said. “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.”
Wright says he recently spoke to Feige since “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” wrapped and the two are “meeting this week to discuss the next phase. It’s been something that I have worked on for over five years on and off. There’s even a treatment I wrote that dates even further back than that.”
But would “Ant-Man” be next? Wright signed a two picture deal with Working Title earlier this year — the first being a project called, “Baby Driver,” called a “wild spin on the action and crime genre… set in the U.S.,” and the other being “At World’s End,” a collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and the third installment of their “Blood And Ice Cream Trilogy.”
So “Ant-Man” would be third? Film projects are fluid, you never really know what happens until a film is shooting, but that seems to be the tentative plan as of right now.
