When Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish began working on the
Ant-Man movie for Marvel, Iron Man was in the development stages and the shared
cinematic universe was still a pipedream, if that. Iron Man came out, followed
by The Incredible Hulk, then Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, and little by
little, the now known MCU was built, which mean that the original pre-MCU
Ant-Man script no longer fitted into the long-term plans that the studio had
layout. To better integrate Ant-Man into the MCU rewrites were done,
unfortunately it seems that they were done without Wright's knowledge, and both
parties parted ways due to creative differences.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Marvel Studios
president Kevin Feige offered his take on the whole thing, and says that
everyone knew what was happening.
"It is true that there were disagreements about
the direction the script should take. Everything was aboveboard. Everything was
done with everybody else’s knowledge. There was a sense of ‘We’re going in this
direction, you’re staying in this direction—maybe it’s best that we end as
friends.’"
Meanwhile Paul Rudd spoke about finding a replacement
for Wright, helping out with the script, which was really out of his comfort
zone.
“It
somewhat happened organically,” Rudd told Entertainment Weekly.
“When Edgar left, they were talking
about directors and I knew Adam and Adam’s brilliant. So he came in to meet
with them. He and I had some ideas and so we spent some time rewriting it and
wound up doing a rewrite on the whole thing. All of a
sudden, this took on a whole new life and was much more intensive that I had
maybe anticipated. I’ve
actually found myself in these kinds of situations before—maybe
not quite on this level, but not far off—where all of a sudden you’re writing
scenes and taking on writing responsibilities. And that’s okay. But it’s a
little strange writing something that’s really, truly out of my comfort zone. I
wouldn’t know how to begin to write [something like this], but sometimes you
just hit the ground running, I guess. Thankfully
Adam was there.”
Rudd also acknowledged that although different the new
script is very similar to the one Wright and Cornish wrote.
"We
changed some scenes, we added new sequences, we changed some characters, we
added new characters. If you took the two scripts and held them up together
they’d be very different—but the idea is all theirs.”
Source - EW
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