Come On, Edgar Wright, Get Going on 'Ant-Man'
June 30, 2010 Comments
Speaking to BoxOfficeMagazine, writer/director Edgar Wright finally gave an update and brief description of his long-talked-about adaptation of Marvel comics hero Ant-Man. Don't worry, guys, it's still happening--assuming Marvel hasn't had a change of heart about the viability of a movie about a shrinking man who communicates with bugs:
I haven't actually started the second draft yet--I'm not going to be able to until this film [Scott Pilgrim] is out--but what we wrote for the first draft, and what Marvel really liked, is that it's funny, but it's a genre film. It's about the level of comedy that Iron Man has. The idea is to make a high-concept genre film where it's within another genre. His suit and its power is the big gadget and it takes place in the real world. I just wanted to do something that was slightly different than the superhero origin film. I felt that between that and the various mad scientist, crazy doctor films that we've all seen, this would be a way into an origin that was slightly different. I'm not really a multi-tasker--I haven't done anything since Marvel liked our first draft.
Please hurry up with this. We need to get this in production before Marvel starts asking stupid questions like, "Should we really be making literally every superhero we can think of into a multimillion dollar film?"
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