Original writer Joe Cornish explains how Marvel's success led to Edgar Wright leaving AntMan: 'They had this universe where the movies had to integrate. Edgar is an auteur. Edgar Wright makes Edgar Wright movies.'
Original Ant-Man screenwriter Joe Cornish explains why director Edgar Wright left the project during development in 2014. Released in 2015, Ant-Man would end up being directed by Peyton Reed, introducing Paul Rudd's Scott Lang into the MCU. The film, which came as part of Phase 2, earned mostly positive reviews from critics and performed well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, which was released in 2018.
"When Edgar and I first met Marvel, they were in offices above a BMW showroom in Beverly Hills. It was around the time of Ang Lee’s 'Hulk,' and [Jon] Favreau hadn’t even started working on the first 'Iron Man.' Superhero movies were not a thing... I guess because VFX hadn’t evolved to the point where they could put what was on page on the screen. So, they always felt like they were reaching for something they couldn’t achieve.
"That kind of overtook us in the sense that Marvel didn’t necessarily want the authored movie that Edgar and I wanted to make because, at that point, they had this behemoth on their hands. They had this universe where the movies had to integrate. Edgar is an auteur. Edgar Wright makes Edgar Wright movies. In the end, that’s why it didn’t happen, I guess.
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