While speaking to IGN, Marvel Studios President,
Kevin Feige responded to some questions about the Ant-Man drama and why
director Peyton Reed was chosen to replace Edgar Wright, while also revealing
that Reed was up for Guardians of the Galaxy, which ultimately ended up with
director James Gunn.
"Number one –
thank you for asking the question in that way, which is doing what we’re doing
which is thinking about the movie and the end result of the movie," said Feige when IGN asked
him about the drama surrounding Ant-Man, Edgar Wright and his
replacement.
"Peyton
[Reed] is someone that I’ve been a fan of for a long time. People may not
remember, though probably your readers remember, that he was attached to Fantastic
Four more than 10 years ago. We spent a lot of time together…
and I got along with Peyton very, very well and he had awesome ideas and
an awesome vision for the movie, and for various reasons he ended up leaving
that movie..." The
Marvel Studios president continued, "He’s come in to meet on a lot
of our movies over the years, in particular Guardians of the Galaxy. He had a lot of awesome things to say on Guardians. But
James [Gunn] had a slightly more solid take that was of interest to us. But
Peyton was always on our lists, and so when this happened and Edgar [Wright]
said ‘Not for me’ we met with a handful of people, but Peyton was always one
that I thought would be great."
"It was
not a slam-dunk that he would just step into it and do it," added
Kevin Feige. "He wanted to be sure that he was wasn’t just
inheriting something or following someone else’s lead. Or wasn’t inheriting
something that the evil studio had watered down to be something bad. I kept
saying, ‘You can either read what’s online, or come in and talk to us and look
at all this stuff.’ He looked at everything, he talked with us, and he said
‘Number one, I agree with the direction you’re going in. And number two, I can
add to it.’ And he has – the movie is in as good a shape as it’s ever been right
now. It’s still very much in the spirit of what Edgar’s original pitch was
and the entire template of the movie is what Edgar set out and originally came
and pitched us maybe eight years ago now. But it's on its way to being the
absolute best version of what that movie could have been. Peyton is
really, really wonderful, and will be proving that soon enough. As I said to
the Comic-Con audience a few years ago, ‘You might not have heard of Joe and Antony Russo, [who directed this
year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier] but you’re going
to be big fans of them soon.’ And I’d say the same thing about Peyton Reed
now."
What do you think?
Source - IGN
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