Edgar Wright over Ant-Man

Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) zal de verfilming van Ant-Man op zich nemen en onder de cut lees je wat nieuwe informatie over wat hij nou precies in gedachten heeft voor de anti-held.

I haven't actually started the second draft yet--I'm not going to be able to until this film [Scott Pilgrim] is out--but what we wrote for the first draft, and what Marvel really liked, is that it's funny, but it's a genre film. It's about the level of comedy that Iron Man has. The idea is to make a high-concept genre film where it's within another genre. His suit and its power is the big gadget and it takes place in the real world. I just wanted to do something that was slightly different than the superhero origin film. I felt that between that and the various mad scientist, crazy doctor films that we've all seen, this would be a way into an origin that was slightly different. I'm not really a multi-tasker--I haven't done anything since Marvel liked our first draft.

Even voor de duidelijkheid: er zijn drie Ant-men in de Marvel Universe waaronder Henry Pym en Scott Lang, maar het gaat hier uiteindelijk om Eric O'Grady. Een man die aanvankelijk vrij weinig onderscheid maakt tussen goed of fout, maar uiteindelijk wel voor het goede kiest.