Scott Pilgrim, the underrated smash hit of 2010, has finished doing the rounds. The battle weary director, Edgar Wright, has had enough of resting and has apparently decided to forge ahead with another draft of his long-awaited Ant-Man screenplay; a project he’s co-writing with Joe Cornish.
This is the first time in over two years that Wright has devoted any time to the Marvel Studio’s project as he was committed to giving the world Scott Pilgrim.
In a recent interview with the L.A Times movie blog, 24 Frames, Wright added that the project ” is not about the urgency of summer tentpoles and things going into production without a script”.
Is he perhaps hinting that Ant-Man will be free of many of the pressures associated with blockbuster Hollywood cinema? We all know that Transformers 2 shot without a story, Bay has admitted as much himself in the press for Transformers 3. And to the casual onlooker it certainly would appear that Ant-Man is the least cinematically sure character Marvel have worked onto the screens.
From what we understand, the pressure is off to make a superhero movie as it is classically understood and move it instead into familiar territory for Wright, who’s previous directorial efforts have been light-hearted and distinctly off-beat; although they always maintain a commercial sensibility.
Ant-Man is a lesser known Marvel character and incase you might be unfamiliar with him, here is a brief overview of the character and the people who inhabit his shrinkable world.
After coming across a size-altering chemical substance, biophysicist and nanotechnology expert Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym decides to become a superhero and, armed with a helmet that controls ants, Pym will shrin k down to the size of an insect to become the sleuth detective, Ant Man. He shares this discovery with his girlfriend Janet Van Dyke who becomes his crime-fighting partner ‘The Wasp.’
Sounds… interesting…if a little silly but in the hands of Wright, this could be brilliant.
Aside from that though, let’s hope that the film is a Wright classic that will stand alongside Shaun and Fuzz for humour and accessibility.
There are no casting decisions yet being made on the project and there is no confirmed release date at this stage.
