{"id":141904,"date":"2025-11-19T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:36:08","slug":"filmmaker-edgar-wright-on-the-dcu-why-he-couldnt-helm-ant-man-and-whether-hes-made-up-with-kevin-feige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141904\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Edgar Wright On The DCU, Why He Couldn’t Helm ANT-MAN, And Whether He’s “Made Up” With Kevin Feige"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, we’re sure you’re all familiar with the story<\/a> of filmmaker Edgar Wright walking away from Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man. He spent years slowly developing the movie, but by the time he was ready to begin work, the MCU had completely changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wright’s standalone superhero movie suddenly had a much bigger world to fit into, and despite getting far enough along to cast Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, he ultimately decided not to move forward with Ant-Man. Peyton Reed was tapped to replace him, and the 2015 blockbuster ended up being a moderate critical and commercial hit.<\/p>\n

Reed’s Ant-Man utilised many of Wright’s ideas, and there was a noticeable dip in quality with Ant-Man and The Wasp, and a huge drop when Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania was released at the start of 2023.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Josh Horowitz, Wright was asked if he’d be open to working with James Gunn and DC Studios, given the co-CEOs’ comments about being filmmaker-first.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know. I think, again, it’s all based on the title,” he said.\u00a0“I think it’s something where…when those things have come up and Ant-Man, unfortunately, fell into it as well, but the reason I wanted to do that in the first place is because I was inspired by the people who got to do the first of something and set the pace.”<\/p>\n

“[1989’s Batman], when it came out, was both the biggest movie of the year so far and also so idiosyncratic and specific to Tim Burton,” Wright continued.\u00a0“It was incredibly quirky for a big studio movie, and you felt that when Sam Raimi did Spider-Man and when Chris Nolan did Batman Begins.”<\/p>\n

“Without going into the weeds and breaking my NDA, the reason I had to walk away from Ant-Man is that by the time I started doing it, which was 8 years after I started writing it, now there was a formula,” he recalled, elaborating on his decision to walk away from the MCU.\u00a0“Not just in terms of continuity within the movies, but also a house style and a way of shooting things.”<\/p>\n

“And all the things that are less interesting to me. There’s a lot of second unit stuff and a VFX unit. I knew I couldn’t make that movie in the same way I’d made Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. I was like, ‘Bye!'”<\/p>\n

When Wright left Ant-Man\u00a0(and it’s hard to blame him, seeing as\u00a0his script was changed significantly by\u00a0in-house writers), it came as a huge blow to Marvel Studios, and Kevin Feige scrambled to find someone who could replace The Running Man helmer.<\/p>\n

However, despite any bad blood at the time, they’ve since buried the hatchet.\u00a0“I should say, me and Kevin Feige have made up in recent years,” Wright confirmed. “When I did that Empire Magazine, I got him to do a piece for it and it was actually the first email we’d had together in 6 years. It was actually sweet that we started talking again.”<\/p>\n

“I haven’t seen him in person since, but [I’ll give him a hug] when I see him,” he added with a laugh.<\/p>\n

We wouldn’t bank on Wright working in the MCU or DCU, though the latter does seem the more likely of the two, seeing as Gunn is happy to greenlight standalone “Elseworlds” projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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