Edgar Wright no longer directing Ant-Man
 

Edgar Wright is no longer gonna be directing the Ant-Man movie for Marvel, Due to creative differences. Marvel is searching for a new director.
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ed...or-1201190458/

Great news

I guess your not a fan of his work? The only movie I seen him direct was Scott Pilgrim.

Well ****...
He was actualy the only reason i was excited for that movie...
Not a big fan of Marvel all of their movies are the same soulles, not very much character in them and every single one has the ending where it all boils down to explosion and big action and hero and villain punching eachother, even the ones i liked. I am interested to see how long they can keep that up. ...

Dang.
I was really looking forward to Wright making me care for another character I found insufferable in the comics.

They loose Michael Daglas next, calling it now...

I'm more interested in who the new director is. I was indifferent about this guy.

Don't really care. I wish they'd dump his Scott Lang script and give us a present day Hank Pym instead.

Did Wright really think he wasn't going have changes from a studio like Marvl/Disney? Your films need to make money before you can make new ones without studio interference.

It's Ant-Man.

Yeah but Wright might have done something interesting with him but we can't have that now, can we?

Well that sucks.

My only exposure to Ant-man is in the Avengers: EMH cartoon and he's an awesome character in that show. If the one in the movie has as good characterisation as in the show, I'm all for it.

Also Wasp needs to be in this movie, but I'm sure she probably will be.

Well that sucks, sounded like he had a cool vision for the movie.

I was devastated, you could say, when I heard the news.

The reason this stinks is he's been working on this beast since 2008. 2008! He was working on this movie before Iron Man came out. He put his heart and soul into this whole project for YEARS, he spent so much time working on it. And then, because of creative differences, he just gets up and leaves. Or he was kicked. Either way, he departed, because Disney and Marvel wanted something different. Whatever that 'different' is.

I was really intrigued to see Wright's take on the movie. Even if I preferred to a see Hank Pym story, I was excited to see this guy who has made some great films in the past, bring that element to the table when he made this movie. A guy focused more on character development than big explosions or flashy scenes. A guy who would have probably given us a much different 'superhero film' then we usually see.

And that really disappoints me, that we don't get to see him do this. And I'm disappointed FOR him, too. This was his 'baby', you could say. It was finally coming to fruition, things were finally moving forward, when it all hit a road block.

Kind of disappointing, and without the Wright dynamic, I'm not sure what I think of this Ant-Man film anymore. I really do love the character (at least Hank Pym, I'm a little less familiar with Scott Lang), but I don't know if that'll be enough. Or if they'll be able to pull it off.

Wright's invovlement gave me slight hope this one would be one of the few unique entries in the cinematic tapestry so far, now I'm simply expecting another passable but ultimately forgettable bit of gunk that won't hold up in a year just like the majority of them now.

I feel the exact same way, i like them first couple of time but none of them hold up with each viewing it becomes more and more aparent what they really are..
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...news/?a=100678

Kevin Feige's vision is the one that matters, and if Wright's was too different, then good riddance.

And so it begins... the comic geeks are no longer making these movies - just the idiots at Disney. That's where Iron Man 3 came from.

Spaced season 3 ahoy! :)

And who's fault is Iron Man 2?

I know I'm in the minority but I enjoyed Iron Man 2, sure it didn't do anything too different but it gave us more of what we loved. "It's a commercial for the Avengers", meh I thought it was well done since the MCU was still new and seeing more of this "shared" universe was cool. I actually think less of Thor/Captain America since they feel more of "yeah this is their origin, get ready for the Avengers"

Iron Man 3 on the other hand gave us an awesome trailer and something I really wanted to see where it went and they gave us a "swerve", the problem was the real villain wasn't anywhere as interesting as the "fake" villain they had set up and fooled us to go to the movie for making it a lackluster reveal instead of actually shocking us.

Well I don't agree with the part of Wright since I'm not familiar with his work but I agree with the rest of this post.
This is how I feel about most Marvel movies, and I'm not a Marvel hater, if they make awesome movies great, if they make passable movies then whatever, I just can't get excited over them. I still think Ant-Man could be done very well because the concept of a superhero called Ant-Man is so out there they have to work extra hard to make it appealing/entertaining and they can't just phone it in.

First rumor for Wright's replacement is Louis D'Esposito who has directed the Agent Carter and Item 47 one-shots for Marvel.

Adam McKay (Anchorman) allegedly offered the directing job for Ant-Man

http://www.slashfilm.com/ant-man-adam-mckay/

Good move by Marvel all things considered. Plus a small plot summary for Ant-Man

http://marvel.com/news/movies/2014/6...arvels_ant-man

Sounds like every other generic Marvel movie, have to save the world in every movie because drama...
I have a feeling that's what's Edgar was figthting against...

I mean... they're ****ing superhero movies dude.

But if you get technical, the only movies where the titular hero literally saved the world were Captain America, Avengers, Thor 2, and Cap 2.

Pretty cool concept art

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2014/07...on_612x942.jpg

A 1:48 trailer for Ant-Man was classified today which means we should be seeing it in the next ~ 2 weeks.

Spoilered for size

Trailer released this Tuesday during Agent Carter

Ant sized trailer... so cruel, yet I can't hate them for it. :lol:

Ingenious!

Marvel released a "human-sized" version of the teaser:

I have to give it to the promotional team, that's pretty damn funny.

That's pretty clever.

I think Rudd looks like a pretty damn good Scott Lang / Ant-Man

https://i.imgur.com/4Iolxkn.jpg

What a terrible teaser, I think this movie is definitely going to flop unlike GotG that had awesome teasers/trailers this one seems about as generic/by the book as you can get and the Ant-Man is probably seen as ridiculous for people.

I was actually pretty hyped for this movie when I was seeing the posters until about last week when I read that Ant-Man is Scott Lang and not Pym and we don't even know if Janet/Wasp will be in the movie. Pym and Janet are two of my favorite Marvel characters so not seeing her and not seeing Pym in his full glory kind of sucks. Ant-Man was a character I found ridiculous until I read some good stories with him and those stories were not usually the normal superhero stuff, they were more adventure stories. If the movie can be like that I think it could win over audiences or at the very least be a good movie, we'll see how it goes with the other trailers it gets. If I had to guess they probably didn't want Hank Pym since the MCU version of Tony Stark was written a little too similarly to Hank Pym by being so smart so they don't need another super genius which is too bad because Hank Pym is on the same level of intellect as Mr. Fantastic which Tony can only dream of even if he is fairly smart as well.

Not true. Tony, Hank and Reed are ALL in the top five in terms of intellect in the MU. Reed is arguably the smartest of the three, but Tony and Hank are actually neck and neck over who takes second. And believe it or not, Peter Parker (YES, Spider-Man) and Bruce (Hulk) Banner round out the top five. These are ALL top-tier brains in the MU, along with the likes of Beast, Moon Knight, and Professor Xavier. And about a handful of others I can't think of at the moment. But to say Tony WISHES he was that smart?! That's just not true- it's SEVERELY underestimating the intelligence of a man who was an MIT grad at 14!