Mar 11 2008Edgar Wright Discusses 'Ant Man'
After a long silence about the man-who-can-shrink-and-also-communicates-with-ants project, director Edgar Wright has finally has some good news about his forever-in-development Ant Man adaptation. Preview: he's still working on it, and handling it perfectly.
It’s written and [Joe Cornish and I are] doing a second draft of it. It’s going to be less overtly comedic than anything else I’ve ever done. It’s more of a full-on action adventure sci-fi film but with a comedic element – in the same spirit of a lot of escapist fare like that. It’s certainly not a superhero spoof or pastiche and it certainly isn’t a sort of Honey I Shrunk The Kids endeavour at all.Ah well, it could be Scott Lang, it could be Hank Pym, it could be both – okay it is both, now there’s an exclusive for you.
Words can't describe how excited this makes me (OMFG! comes close, but isn't really a word, and is obnoxious). I can't imagine anyone better to handle an oddly-powered B-list superhero than the man behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. How could this be any better? Maybe if he were also doing a Blue Beetle/Booster Gold action buddy comedy, but that's the only way.
Edgar Wright Talks Ant Man [Empire]
Reader Comments
1. Kid Braggart - March 11, 2008 2:46 PM
That IS the only thing that could be better than an Ant-Man movie. However that's still a pretty cavalier way to mention the best idea for a movie ever.
2. pym 4 life - March 11, 2008 2:48 PM
FIRST!!!!
Hank Pym is the shit. He's the biggest asshole in comic books. He built a robot to try to kill his friends because they weren't giving him enough attention. Great character.
3. pym 4 life - March 11, 2008 2:49 PM
SHIT! I was almost first... I need to build a robot to kill Kid Braggart, then I will be first.
4. wendy - March 11, 2008 2:56 PM
Nothing against Ant Man, but a Booster Gold movie would rule.
5. stop the pain - March 11, 2008 3:15 PM
you cant joke about such things as a Booster and Blue movie ... I just died alittle inside now thanks
6. wendy - March 11, 2008 4:02 PM
I'm not joking. Obviously a Booster Gold movie has a ton of potential to be bad, but in the right hands it has a ton of potential to be good.
7. Skeps - March 11, 2008 4:40 PM
HOW have I not heard of Ant-Man?!?!?!
or a better question is probably
WHY did I not assume there was an Ant-Man?!?!?!