Adam McKay and Paul Rudd rewrote Edgar Wright's Ant-Man script for Marvel. So what did they change?
Production has been underway for some time now on Marvel's second 2015 movie release, Ant-Man. You probably know the story so far on it all too well, too. Edgar Wright had been developing the film for the best part of a decade, yet he departed over 'creative differences' on the eve of production, with all of the key cast - including Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas - in place.
The late replacement for him? That'd be Peyton Reed, who's now directing the film. But for a while, Anchormanhelmer Adam McKay was linked with the job. Instead though, McKay oversaw a rewrite of the screenplay, and he's now been chatting to Collider about just what changed on the film.
McKay worked on the screenplay along with Paul Rudd for the best part of two months. And as well as adding "some cool new action", the pair "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", adding "we just basically did a rewrite."
How substantive a rewrite is unclear at this stage, and thus we don't know how close Ant-Man will remain to the film that Edgar Wright originally envisaged. 'Not very' would be our guess. McKay did say that "a lot of dialogue and character" remains from Wright's last draft, however.
Ant-Man is set for release on July 15th 2015. And you can read the full piece with Colliderhere.
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