More Ant-Man Movie News

More details on the tiny Avenger's big screen exploits directly from the mouth of director Edgar Wright.
Ant-Man director Edgar Wright says he got the assignment at a previous comic-Con where he showed his Shaun of the Dead.

"Basically, this writer Joe Cornish… Before we'd written or maybe around the same time we'd written the first draft of 'Shaun,' I was in L.A. and I'd met with Artisan and at the time, they had some of Marvel's lesser-known titles, and they asked if I was a Marvel comics fan, and I said that I always was a Marvel Comics kid, and they said, 'Are you interested in any of these titles?' The one that jumped out was 'Ant-Man' because I had the John Byrne 'Marvel Premiere' from 1979 that David Micheline had done with Scott Lang that was kind of an origin story," Wright told Superhero Hype.

"I always loved the artwork, so when I saw that, it just immediately set bells going off kind of thinking going 'Huh, that could be interesting.' So we actually wrote a treatment for it, which was never sent to Marvel. It was like more our pitch on the thing.

"Ant-Man was basically doing a superhero film in invert commas, and it takes place in another genre, almost more in the crime-action genre, that just happens to involve an amazing suit with this piece of hardware. The thing I like about Ant-Man is that it's not like a secret power, there's no supernatural element or it's not a genetic thing. There's no gamma rays. It's just like the suit and the gas, so in that sense, it really appealed to me in terms that we could do something high-concept, really visual, cross-genre, sort of an action and special effects bonanza, but funny as well. There will definitely be a humorous element to it as well. So we wrote this treatment revolving around the Scott Lang character, who was a burglar, so he could have gone slightly in the Elmore Leonard route, and they came back saying, 'Oh, we wanted to do something that was like a family thing.' I don't think it ever got sent to Marvel. So then about two years ago I met Kevin Feige and Ari here and they said, 'Are you interested in any Marvel titles?' and I said, 'Weirdly enough, I did something for you,' …so we basically said, 'Do you want to read the thing that we did three years ago?' So they read it and that's kind of the basis for what we're working on," he said.

Wright says he wants "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 60's, 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."

You can read the rest of the interview here.
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7/27/2006
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