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The promotional buzz around Avengers: Age of Ultron is still in full swing and it seems that Joss Whedon is getting all kinds of questions firing in from all kinds of angles.
Yesterday, during Whedon’s latest interview with Buzzfeed, the subject of Marvel’s much anticipated Ant-Man movie came up and Whedon’s words on the matter were awesome.
So at this point, most of you know what happened with Edgar Wright and the Ant-Man project. If you don’t, the story is that Edgar Wright has wanted to make an Ant-Man movie for years and so went out of his way to campaign Marvel to let him make one. He even went to the trouble of shooting his own concept trailer (see below).
When the footage was leaked, us geeks went wild and the studio’s relented. He had his project and things were all coming up Wright.
Then, at the eve of production for the movie Wright dropped out of the project due to creative differences. The man had been working on the project for the better part of a decade – it must of crushed him.
Regardless, the production strides onward and upwards and to be fair all that we’ve seen about the movie still looks good, but there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s not going to be anywhere near as good as it could’ve been with Wright still at the helm. Maybe that’s just the loyalist fanboy in me.
When Joss Whedon was asekd what he thought about Edgar Wright / Ant-Man situation, he seemed to be just as perplexed about what happened as us ganboys. “I didn’t get it”, Whedon said. “I thought the script was not only the best script that Marvel had ever had, but the most Marvel script I’d read”.
“I had no interest in Ant-Man”, Whedon admitted, but after reading the script he said he, “was like, of course! This is so good! It reminded me of the books when I read them. Irreverent and funny and could make what was small large, and vice versa. I don’t know where things went wrong. But I was very sad. Because I thought, This is a no-brainer. This is Marvel getting it exactly right”.
“Whatever dissonance that came, whatever it was, I don’t understand why it was bigger than a marriage that seemed so right. But I’m not going to say it was definitely all Marvel, or Edgar’s gone mad! I felt like they would complement each other by the ways that they were different. And, uh, something happened”.
It looks like Whedon isn’t the only fellow geek who feels Wright’s Ant-Man would be a better Ant-Man. Oh well.
Edgar Wright is currently working on his new field, which has both written and will direct, entitled “Baby Driver” and according to it’s IMDB Page already has a brief synopsis:
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a doomed heist.
I don’t know about you guys, but Wright’s name next to that synopsis already makes the movie compelling. I can’t wait to see what comes of it.
Source: Buzzfeed
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