Comments on: Kevin Feige Explains Why ‘Ant-Man’ Was “Not Working” With Edgar Wright, Says Movie Now “In The Best Shape It’s Ever Been”

By: Brian Marino

Brian Marino — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:59 +0000

This still sounds a heck of a lot different than their earlier statements of how badly they wanted "Wright's vision" and how they were changing things to "fit his vision" and how Ant-Man was only happening because Wright petitioned for it so hard and wanted his story made. Still feels pointless to me to be making it without Wright.

He basically worked his butt off to get it to a production stage then suddenly Marvel was interested in it enough to want it to be their stupid product. I love the Marvel movies but this was atrocious behavior and proves right everyone who says their movies are boring for their house style.

At least we'll get a bit of Wright in the action scenes because he pre-vized them.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:59 +0000

Doesn't seem too curious. Wright has a very potent and powerful mise-en-scene and directorial style, and Marvel wants to make movies that have a stylistic through-line where they can click in and click out directors as needed without disrupting the style of their movies. I'm sick of comic book movies and think most of what they do is bland and mediocre, but, from a business standpoint, it makes total sense. Wright's a sharp guy. I doubt he even blames them much for that. (Although, similar to what Feige said, I bet he's pissed it took them this long to figure that out.)

By: Miles Pieri

Miles Pieri — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:58 +0000

When Wright started work on this film, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was little more than a vague sketch. Over time, with the films increasingly becoming interlinked, it's pretty obvious that the studio's vision for Ant-Man would change, to accommodate the other parts of the MCU. Wright and Joe Cornish may well have wanted to stick with their original plan, and understandably so. If that's the case, it was probably inevitable that things would end up this way.
Look on the bright side. Now we get an Ant-Man movie (which will probably include a little bit of that Wright/Cornish style, at that) AND a new Edgar Wright film.

By: James M.

James M. — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:58 +0000

Yet again, Feige fails to actually explain why they dropped Edgar Wright. Feige's song-and-dance routine isn't fooling anyone: they were scared of Wright's vision, but don't have the balls to say so. Sad.

By: Cassie Lang

Cassie Lang — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:58 +0000

Bulls—!

By: Ugh

Ugh — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:58 +0000

Marvel probably wanted Edgar Wright to blandly shoot the film without character so it looks like the next episode in a long running TV series. It still just reads as "Wright wanted to do something original. We at Marvel like originality…as long as all those original ideas are gone by the 30 minute marker so we can go to making the same movie we've done 10 times now"