Edgar Wright On The Ant-Man Film
When Marvel entered the film business we all knew they'd be converting some oddball properties to their own features. However, I don't think anyone saw Ant-Man getting his own franchise let alone a name director heading the project.
Edgar Wright, director and co-creator of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is not only behind the forthcoming Ant-Man film but a huge fan of the property itself. In an interview with Wizard Universe, Wright gives us an update on the film's progress.
Can you confirm that you're still involved with "Ant Man?" WRIGHT: Absolutely. I wrote the first draft of the script which, to be honest, kind of took two years to deliver because I did "Hot Fuzz" in the middle of it. But I did my first draft of it just before the strike last year and I think it's one of my favorite things I've ever written. It was a real blast to write. I know that [Marvel's] very pleased with what we've done and, really, really, the appeal to that for me is the fact that like, Ant Man is considered slightly D-list. The whole raison d'etre of the piece for me and my thing has always been to take something that would seem to be uncool and make it really cool and that's certainly the case with British cops in "Hot Fuzz." To take the most seemingly kind of underwhelming concept and make something really cool out of it--I always liked that premise. As a little kid I had a reprint of "The Man in the Ant Hill," the very first Ant Man kind of story and it's something that always struck me. Most shrinking films are about in somebody in jeopardy and this is something where the shrinker has the power. Rather than it being something that's a terrible thing to happen, it's actually making your character into the most bad ass sort of action hero/spy possible.
I'm still unsure if the book will focus on Hank Pym or use either of the other two Ant-Men. It sounds like Wright is certainly enamored with Pym, but we'll have to wait and see.
Goblin
Posted to DVD, Superheroes on 2 September 2008
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