While promoting his new film The World's End, which hits theaters this week, director Edgar Wright took a little time to discuss the his plans for the Ant-Man film, and why the character won't be involved in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Regarding the difficulties involved in adapting a second-tier character like Ant-Man, Wright sounded optimistic:
"I think there's something in that it's a lesser known character, there's hopefully more license. For the one percent of people who are like, 'Wait, Hank Pym would never do that!' there's 99 percent going, 'Who's Hank Pym?' So, to me, the source material is great but it also frees you up to be like: I'm going to make a movie. The movie is not going to represent 50 years of Marvel comics because that's impossible. But I'm going to make a 100 minute movie -- or 110 minutes."
As for the question of the relationship of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron with Ant-Man, Wright had this to say: "It was never in my script. Because even just to sort of set up what Ant-Man does is enough for one movie. It's why I think Iron Man is extremely successful because it keeps it really simple. You have one sort of -- the villain comes from the hero's technology. It's simple. So I think why that film really works and why, sometimes, superhero films fail -- or they have mixed results -- because they have to set up a hero and a villain at the same time. And that's really tough. And sometimes it's unbalanced."
Ant-Man is currently scheduled for a November 6, 2015 release.
You can read more from Mr. Wright on Ant-Man, The World's End, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and more over at The Huffington Post!
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