Reportedly, it was Wright who wanted Rudd while Marvel favored Gordon-Levitt, hoping to inject some more youth into the MCU.īy December, Rudd had officially won the role, all the while production had to be moved from the UK to the U.S. Marvel and Wright had narrowed their Scott Lang search down to Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Paul Rudd. I’m a big believer in keeping it relatively simple and Marvel agrees on that front.”īy October 2013, casting had begun and Marvel had staked out a July 2015 release date for the film.
I definitely want to go into finding a streamlined format where you use the origin format to introduce the main character and further adventures can bring other people into it. I want to put the crazy premise of it into a real world, which is why I think Iron Man really works because it’s a relatively simple universe it’s relatable. I like to make it standalone because I think the premise of it needs time. It is pretty standalone in the way we’re linking it to the others. “In the time I’ve been working on it other things have happened in the other movies that could be affected in this. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in the midst of expanding, Wright envisioned Ant-Man as a standalone story: With The World’s End finished, Wright now turned his attention to making Ant-Man as his next movie. So with his proof-of-concept complete and essentially a greenlight from Marvel, the filmmaker went off and shot The World’s End in the fall of 2012, and by July 2013 Wright and Cornish had a completed version of the Ant-Man script that was ready to roll. I was thankfully in the audience that day, and I can attest it was just as exciting and inventive as you imagine it to be. So Wright showed off the Ant-Man test reel during the Marvel panel at 2012 San Diego Comic-Con, a month after he shot it, which ended up being the only footage Wright ever shot for Ant-Man that was seen by the public. Thankfully, Fellner recovered and The World’s End stands as one of Wright’s best films. You see, Eric Fellner-producer for Working Title, the studio behind Wright’s brilliant Cornetto Trilogy of films-was diagnosed with cancer, and Wright felt it important to fulfill his promise of a trilogy of movies for Fellner lest the producer’s condition worsened. As we later discovered, Marvel was actually eyeing Ant-Man was one of its Phase Two movies, but allowed Wright to delay production so he could instead make his original sci-fi film The World’s End first. Indeed, in June of 2012, Wright shot a test reel for Ant-Man, showing how he would capture the character’s shrinking powers onscreen. In May 2012, as Marvel was readying the release of The Avengers, Wright was being enlisted to visualize what Ant-Man would look like on film. The World, and it seemed as though the stars were finally beginning to align to get Ant-Man made at long last. They were busy trying to get their Phase One movies off the ground- Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America-and build to The Avengers, so Wright continued to work on Ant-Man in between other projects.īy 2011, Wright and Cornish had delivered a second draft of Ant-Man to Marvel after Wright completed his film Scott Pilgrim vs.
Wright completed his first draft of the Ant-Man script in 2008, but there was no pressure to get the film going ASAP given that the character, well, wasn’t exactly a top priority for Marvel Studios.
So it’s like an interesting thing, like the Marvel Premiere one that I read which is Scott Lang’s origin, it’s very brief like a lot of those origin comics are, and in a way, the details that are skipped through in the panels and the kind of thing we’d spend half an hour on.” Is to have a film that basically is about Henry Pym and Scott Lang, so you actually do a prologue where you see Pym as Ant-Man in action in the 60s, in sort of Tales to Astonish mode basically, and then the contemporary, sort of flash-forward, is Scott Lang’s story, and how he comes to acquire the suit, how he crosses paths with Henry Pym, and then, in an interesting sort of Machiavellian way, teams up with him. “The idea that we have for the adaptation is to actually involve both. And even way back then, he had the bones of the story for what eventually became the finished Ant-Man movie: In fact, Wright even appeared at 2006 San Diego Comic-Con alongside Favreau to tease Ant-Man while at the same time hosting a panel for his then-upcoming film Hot Fuzz.
Wright’s Ant-Man was announced as one of Marvel’s initial films alongside Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America. RELATED: How the MCU Was Made: ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ or the Film That Nearly Broke Joss Whedon
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