Script disagreements were at the heart of Edgar Wright's Ant-Man departure, as Paul Rudd admits he was "devastated".
NewsThe arrival of the first trailer for Ant-Man this week hasn't done too much to dampen the wish that original director Edgar Wright was still on board the project. That's no slight against his replacement, Peyton Reed, rather that there's still a feeling that Edgar Wright's Ant-Man may go on to be one of the great lost comic book movies.
The wraps have been coming off the film this month, and in new interviews with EW, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige and Ant-Man star Paul Rudd have been chatting about Wright's late departure from the project.
Feige, for one, admitted that "it is true that there were disagreements about the direction the script should take", but added that "everything was aboveboard. Everything was done with everybody else’s knowledge. There was a sense of ‘we’re going in this direction, you’re staying in this direction—maybe it’s best that we end as friends.’"
Paul Rudd said that he was "devastated" when Edgar Wright quit the film, but went on to add that "the bones of it is really Edgar and Joe [Cornish]."
Whilst Adam McKay and Rudd himself have done work on the screenplay, his words do suggest that the core film has the same foundation. However, he also said that "we changed some scenes, we added new sequences, we changed some characters, we added new characters. If you took the two scripts and held them up together they’d be very different - but the idea is all theirs."
Rudd added that "it's been an emotional roller-coaster, but I'm very excited now."
Ant-Man arrives in cinemas in July.
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