When writer/director Edgar Wright left Marvel's
Ant-Man, many thought that dark days were ahead for the project. That didn't
revealed to be the case has the studio quickly brought in writer/director Adam
McKay to touch up the script before passing it over to now director Peyton
Reed.
Speaking to Collider, McKay reveals that it was the
upcoming Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd who convinced him to work on Wright and Joe
Cornish's script.
"[Rudd] called me when Edgar
Wright stepped away from the project and told me what was going on. I went and
met with Marvel, and I was a little dubious just because I’m friends with Edgar
and I didn’t know what the story was, and then when I kind of heard what
happened, that Edgar had parted ways, and then I saw their materials, I was
like, ‘God this is pretty cool’. Ultimately I didn’t want to jump in as a
director, I had too many other projects going and it was too tight, but I
thought, ‘You know what, I can rewrite this, and I can do a lot of good by
rewriting it."
McKay also reveals that he and Rudd himself spend a
few time together working on the script.
"I really thought we put some
amazing stuff in there and built on an already strong script from Edgar Wright
and sort of just enhanced some stuff. We added some new action beats. I grew up
on Marvel Comics so the geek in me was in heaven that I got to add a giant
action sequence to the movie; I was so excited. So we did, we added some cool
new action." Now, the big question! Just how much of Edgar Wright's
original vision remains? Peyton Reed is obviously directing now, but many fans
hope it will still have the Shaun of the Dead director's unique approach in
there somewhere. "There’s a lot that’s already in there from what Edgar
did, there’s a lot of dialogue and character still in there. “We just shaped
the whole thing, we just tried to streamline it, make it cleaner, make it a
little bigger, a little more aggressive, make it funnier in places—we just
basically did a rewrite. Edgar had a really good script. But we just had a
blast, and Rudd was just so much fun to write with. I walked away saying, ‘Hey,
you and I gotta write a script together.'"
Opening on July 17, 2015, Ant-Man stars Michael
Douglas, Paul Rudd, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, David Dastmalchian, John
Slattery, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Abby Ryder Fortson (Togetherness),
Judy Greer, Wood Harris (Remember the Titans), Gregg Turkington (The Comedy),
T.I., and Martin Donovan.
Source - Collider
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