[Movies] Ant-Man Update

Posted by Ashish on 08.27.2008

Latest on another Marvel Comics movie...

Hot Fuzz's Edgar Wright recently spoke with Wizard Universe about his upcoming big screen version of the Marvel Comics series, Ant-Man. Wright said he is "absolutely" still involved with the film.

"I wrote the first draft of the script which, to be honest, kind of took two years to deliver because I did Hot Fuzz in the middle of it. But I did my first draft of it just before the [writers'] strike last year and I think it's one of my favorite things I've ever written. It was a real blast to write."

"I know that [Marvel's] very pleased with what we've done and, really, really, the appeal to that for me is the fact that like, Ant-Man is considered slightly D-list. The whole raison d'etre of the piece for me and my thing has always been to take something that would seem to be uncool and make it really cool and that's certainly the case with British cops in Hot Fuzz. To take the most seemingly kind of underwhelming concept and make something really cool out of it—I always liked that premise."

"As a little kid I had a reprint of 'The Man in the Ant Hill,' the very first Ant-Man kind of story and it's something that always struck me. Most shrinking films are about in somebody in jeopardy and this is something where the shrinker has the power. Rather than it being something that's a terrible thing to happen, it's actually making your character into the most bad ass sort of action hero/spy possible."