Joss Whedon has serious praise for Edgar Wright's Ant-Man screenplay.
NewsIf anyone knows the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its peaks and valleys, it's Joss Whedon. This is the guy who did what many thought was impossible with The Avengers (and is probably about to do it again with Avengers: Age of Ultron). Whedon is the one they turned to when it was finally time to unite that Marvel Universe, and his word probably carries more weight than some.
With that in mind, his thoughts on the Edgar Wright/Joe Cornish Ant-Man screenplay, the one that ultimately had some hefty rewrites done to it as Wright left the project, are particularly telling. This is some genuine enthusiasm, here:
“I thought the script was not only the best script that Marvel had ever had, but the most Marvel script I’d read. I had no interest inAnt-Man. [Then] I read the script, and was like, Of course! This is so good! It reminded me of the books when I read them. Irreverent and funny and could make what was small large, and vice versa. I don’t know where things went wrong. But I was very sad. Because I thought, This is a no-brainer. This is Marvel getting it exactly right. Whatever dissonance that came, whatever it was, I don’t understand why it was bigger than a marriage that seemed so right. But I’m not going to say it was definitely all Marvel, or Edgar’s gone mad! I felt like they would complement each other by the ways that they were different. And, uh, somethin’ happened.”
Wright was replaced by director Peyton Reed, while Wright and Cornish's script had another pass done on it by Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. The latter two now have a screenplay credit, while Wright and Cornish remain with a story credit.
We may never know how much of Wright's vision remains in Ant-Man, but it opens on July 17th.
Source: Buzzfeed
