More details on the departure of Edgar Wright came to light following Ant-Man’s original writer Joe Cornish’s interview. The writer didn’t hold back and spilled some behind-the-scene details during his interview with The Playlist, including why English filmmaker Edgar Wright decided to leave the MCU and what happened to the film’s original screenplay.
Writer Joe Cornish had been working alongside director Edgar Wright on Ant-Man for years. The pair had been developing the superhero film for almost eight years, and Cornish revealed that their version of the film was heavily influenced by filmmaking before technological advancement in the film industry.
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Cornish said to The Playlist, “We worked on [“Ant-Man”] for something like eight years, on and off. And in that time, the landscape changed completely. The technology changed completely. Audiences fell in love with superhero movies. All the stuff that people loved in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s in comic books were suddenly translated on screen in a really direct way that had never happened before.”
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What Happened to Edgar Wright’s Version Of Ant-Man
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Due to the evolution in filmmaking, the MCU had the expansive idea of integrating their franchise’s films, and Wright’s creative vision soon hindered that concept. It wasn’t that long till Wright and MCU executives butted heads for Ant-Man. Cornish further revealed, “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.”
Edgar Wright’s version wasn’t totally scrapped, and Marvel Studios still used some of their ideas in the film. The pair also received writing and story credits for Ant-Man for their contribution. Cornish shared that his storyline includes a look back on the early days of Marvel Studios, which obviously didn’t make the cut in the finished product.
The writer said, “a lot of our stuff is still in there, and I really like that movie. We’re as excited as anybody to see where it goes next. We feel connected to that cast as well because Edgar cast it. The designs are still in it. There are still a couple of little Edgar Wright ants scuttling around invisibly in those movies.”
