In an interview with PiQ magazine, director Edgar Wright indicates that “Scott Pilgrim” will be his next film, slated to begin filming at the end of this year or early next. Meanwhile, he’s in the midst of a second draft on “Ant-Man.”
Wright says: “I wrote that for Marvel and I’m in the process of doing a second draft. I had a lot of fun writing that script, I wrote it with this guy Joe Cornish, who is a really funny UK writer. It’s not really an out-and-out comedy. I think some people assume that it must be a spoof, but it’s not really. I guess it’s as funny as something like Iron Man is, it’s on that level of entertainment, really. It’s a big, high concept, special effects comic book adaptation, and very character-led and we found a way of… I guess in a similar way to Iron Man, the thing that worked with that and hopefully will with this is that it’s a different way of seeing a superhero origin, because you’ve seen so many of them and we really tried to figure out a fresh take on that story. So it’s definitely a Marvel film but it’s got a little twist on it in terms of the way that it plays out.”
– Matt Price
June 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Really, I think most people in the general movie audience would be turned off by a superhero who can shrink. However, I think that same number of people would be interested and entertained by someone who can control insects. Personally, Ant-Man has always been a favorite. And I say make him pint-sized, though I’d understand why they wouldn’t make that a main grab of the film.
But who to play Hank Pym?
-Richard Hall, NewsOK.com intern