Joe Cornish didn’t hesitate to share what really happened behind closed doors in the first Ant-Man movie.
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After this, more details about Edgar Wright’s departure came to light Ant man‘s original writer JoeCornish‘s interview. The writer didn’t hold back and spilled some behind-the-scenes details during his interview with The playlistincluding why English filmmaker Edgar Wright decided to leave the MCU and what happened to the movie’s original screenplay.
Writer Joe Cornish collaborated with director Edgar Wright on Ant man for years. The pair spent nearly eight years developing the superhero film and Cornish revealed that their version of the film was heavily influenced by filmmaking before the technological advancements in the film industry.
Cornish told The Playlist: ‘We’ve been working on it [“Ant-Man”] for about eight years, occasionally. And in that time the landscape changed completely. The technology changed completely. Audiences fell in love with superhero movies. All the things that people loved in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s in comic books suddenly got translated on screen in a very direct way that had never happened before.
What happened to Edgar Wright’s version of Ant-Man
Due to the evolution in filmmaking, the MCU had the expansive idea of integrating their franchise’s films, and Wright’s creative vision soon thwarted that concept. It wasn’t long before Wright and MCU executives ran into each other Ant man. Cornish further revealed: “That got us a little bit in the sense that Marvel didn’t necessarily want the written movie that Edgar and I wanted to make, because they had this behemoth on their hands at the time. They had this universe where the movies had to integrate. Edgar is an author. Edgar Wright makes Edgar Wright movies. In the end, that’s why it didn’t happen, I think.”
Edgar Wright’s version wasn’t cut entirely, and Marvel Studios still used some of their ideas in the film. The pair also received writing and story credits for Ant man for their contribution. Cornish shared that his storyline includes a flashback to the early days of Marvel Studios, which clearly didn’t make it into the final product.
The writer said, “A lot of our stuff is still in it, and I really like that movie. We’re just as excited as anyone to see where it goes. We also feel connected to that cast because Edgar cast it . The designs are still in there. There are still some little Edgar Wright ants scurrying around invisibly in those movies.”