"Avengers" director Joss Whedon has some take on the upcoming "Ant Man" movie, especially regarding its script. Whedon said in an interview with Buzz Feed that Edgar Wright's version for the script is actually the "best" that Marvel ever had.
"Only that I don't get it...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. Then I read the script, and 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, somethin' happened," Whedon was quoted in the report saying.
If you remember, Wright exited the team after some "creative differences" with Marvel's top officials. Wright and Marvel had previously been working on the movie for at over eight years before realizing it would not work.
After Wright's exit, Peyton Reed stepped in as the new director, with Adam McKay and lead actor Paul Rudd rewriting the script.
McKay said in a Collider interview what they changed in Wright's script. "We added some new action beats. I grew up on Marvel Comics so the geek in me was in heaven that I got to add a giant action sequence to the movie; I was so excited. So we did, we added some cool new action. There's a lot that's already in there from what Edgar did, there's a lot of dialogue and character still in there...We just shaped the whole thing, we just tried to streamline it, make it cleaner, make it a little bigger, a little more aggressive, make it funnier in places-we just basically did a rewrite. Edgar had a really good script. But we just had a blast, and Rudd was just so much fun to write with. I walked away saying, 'Hey, you and I gotta write a script together," Collider quoted McKay.
Aside from Paul Rudd, the cast list includes Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym, Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne, and Corey Stoll as Darren Cross. Also in the list are Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Abby Ryder Fortson, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, Wood Harris, John Slattery, Gregg Turkington, and T.I. The movie will hit theaters in July.
Watch the movie's first official trailer here: