When news
broke out that director Edgar Wright and Marvel split ways, the studio came
under some criticism, and was portrait in some ways as the Man constraining,
and ultimately dismissing the creative genius. Well during the Guardians of the
Galaxy press event in London, Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige confirmed
that is was a combo of visions falling out of sync and personality issues.
Speaking
to The Guardian, Feige said that it wasn't a case of the "big evil studio... too scared at the outside-the-box creative vision.
We sat round a table and we realised it was not working. A part of me wishes we
could have figured that out in the eight years we were working on it. But
better for us and for Edgar that we figure it out then, and not move it through
production. We said 'let's do this together and put out a statement.' What
do we say? 'Creative differences'. I said: 'That's what they always say and
no-one ever believes it.' Edgar said: 'But in this case it's true'"
"The Marvel movies are
very collaborative, and I think they are more collaborative than what he had
been used to. And I totally respect that. "[But] the notion that Marvel
was scared, the vision was too good, too far out for Marvel is not true. And I
don't want to talk too much about that because I think our movies speak to
that. Go look at Iron Man 3; go look at The Winter Soldier; go see Guardians of the Galaxy later
this month. It would have to be really out there to be too out there for us."
Feige then reassured MCU fans that Ant-Man is "in the best shape it's ever been" with Yes Man director Peyton Reed. "Peyton is going to do a tremendous job and the cast is tremendously
dedicated and the script is getting into amazing shape," he said. "You wouldn't expect a producer to say anything different, but when
that movie comes out it will be the absolute best version of Ant-Man that could have existed." He added, "The biggest
disappointment for me is just the relationship, because I like Edgar very, very
much and we were very close for many many years. But the perception that the
big evil studio was too scared at the outside-the-box creative vision is just
not the case."
Before
you start saying this is BS, let's not forget that Marvel didn't had a
cinematic universe when Wright came on board to write and direct Ant-Man, so
there wasn't a "MCU mold" to follow, but now that there is one, the
movies need (in my opinion) to have a certain tone, a certain feel, a certain
continuity to them in order for it to work properly.
As for
the "personality issues", let's face there are other things at play when you are doing a MCU movie. You have to connect your movie to those that came beforehand and those
that will came after, so maybe for a director that prizes himself in being
unique, which he is, that probably was never going to be a good fit.
Personally,
and has much as I like Wright's work, I don't think the he could have fit the mold, I don't think his version of Ant-Man, regardless of how good it could
have been, would fit, so in that perspective I think it's a good thing both
parties went their separate ways.
Source - The Guardian
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