Hollywood Reporter: Edgar Wright just left Ant-Man

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I find it hilarious how many more posts this thread has than the Ant-Man hype thread (or any of the other ant-man news threads). The internet just loves bad news...
 
Blader said:
What developing? He wrote a script that spent most of that time on Marvel's shelf. No active production work happened until this year, save for the test footage reel he shot last year.
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Not true. It took Wright and Cornish many years and drafts to complete the script. Marvel did not shelve it.
 
Rez said:
... and can you blame them?
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The only criticism I've really heard from him is die-hard Scott Pilgrim fans who didn't feel he made a worthy adaptation, which... isn't really true.

The most current film he's listing as doing directing work on imdb is now World's End :( (Which for anyone who hasn't seen it, is fantastic)

Affeinvasion said:
When ever has so much ink been spilled for a director of four films?
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Four really good films.
 
duckroll said:
Probably not. I heard from someone close to the production that James Gunn is livid, and he's considering taking his name off Guardians of the Galaxy unless they replace Thanos with a talking purple dildo. Seems like it's over for Marvel Studios.
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Damn. These directors are just losing their minds. They can't just make Thanos a big purple peener!

Well, ...at least Wright is making a Flash movie now.
 
My interest just dissipated.

As far as replacements go, I think Joe Cornish would be an inspired choice.

They probably won't do it, though.

Affeinvasion said:
They're really good low budget middle-brow parody satires...yes.
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They're tremendous films, nonetheless.

Edgar Wright is a supremely bold and talented filmmaker. He also works incredibly hard on every project he tackles. If anyone had the chops to make a compelling Ant-Man film, it was him.
 
Eh. Not an issue. I haven't seen At World's End yet, but the only movie I've liked of his was Shaun of the Dead. I've never seen the huge appeal of his stuff.

I hope they get somebody good. Paul Rudd is good fun and I hope it turns out well enough.
 
Affeinvasion said:
I find it hilarious how many more posts this thread has than the Ant-Man hype thread (or any of the other ant-man news threads). The internet just loves bad news...
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I think it's more like this ...

Ant-Man is lame and can't generate much common folk hype. People in those threads were literally saying that" this dude is awesome so I aint gotta explain how people are gonna spend money to see "get small man" ".

Now his fans are lashing out and Ant Man fans are seeing this thing ripping at the seams (new director like a month or a few weeks before they start shooting? Ok..) and maybe even the DC fans are trying to add fuel to the fire after BatMan v Stupid title for MoS2.

All in all ... I don't care about this character or movie and I'm trying my best to find the appeal but that hasn't happened yet and this isn't helping lol.
 
Affeinvasion said:
I find it hilarious how many more posts this thread has than the Ant-Man hype thread (or any of the other ant-man news threads). The internet just loves bad news...
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That's one way of reading it. Maybe people just quietly anticipated greatness and were patiently waiting for the movie to actually come out.
 
nomis said:
That's one way of reading it. Maybe people just quietly anticipated greatness and were patiently waiting for the movie to actually come out.
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This was it. Edgar Wright's name was attached. Whatever he does, even if I had no interest before, becomes incredibly entertaining.

Now he's gone. Which means less Wright.
 
nomis said:
That's one way of reading it. Maybe people just quietly anticipated greatness and were patiently waiting for the movie to actually come out.
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I guess 10 years of silent devotion being expelled at once would look roughly the same. I think people are still more interested in posting outrage and disappointment than excitement.
 
Lebron said:
With all this buzz you'd figure his movies made gangbusters at the movies.

You'd figure.
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His films might not amass HUGE opening weekend numbers, but they have legs that carry them very far... Which is honestly what matters.
 
Wright has a big internet following, unsuprisngly because his films are pretty much tailor made to excite the kind of geeks that post on messge boards. Spaced, SOTD, Worlds Fuzz all have strong elements of sci-fi. This doesn't always translate into receipts, but then British films are touch and go when it comes to doing gangbusters over-seas anyway. Scott Pilgrim was his first forray into American/Canadian styling and that was a mega flop. But all his films review consistently high, and he's a critics darling. Even Armound White raves about his shit constantly.
 
Affeinvasion said:
I guess 10 years of silent devotion being expelled at once would look roughly the same. I think people are still more interested in posting outrage and disappointment than excitement.
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10 years is a long time, and hype was only just starting to hit full swing with a set release date and cast. This outburst of negativity all has to come in one instant.

What you say still has truth.
 
Affeinvasion said:
I guess 10 years of silent devotion being expelled at once would look roughly the same. I think people are still more interested in posting outrage and disappointment than excitement.
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The hype thread has less posts because it was made at a time when there was no news. There was hardly anything to talk about. This thread has news plus people angrily shouting at each other about whose fault it is. Not exactly the same thing.
 
J10 said:
He's the Steven Spielberg of geek movies nobody gives a shit about.
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yeah when i watch movies i kind of tend to enjoy them even more when they're really well made.

keep throwing that shade at a god.

...raimi needs to come back. that wizard of oz movie was garbage.
 
anaron said:
Haha, THR quoted your tweet, Bobby

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My boy bobby getting famous
 
I don't understand how you could drop the director when they were just weeks from filming. What could they still be disagreeing about at this point? Shouldn't the tone and major plot points all have been set in stone months ago?
 
Discotheque said:
yeah when i watch movies i kind of tend to enjoy them even more when they're really well made.

keep throwing that shade at a god.

...raimi needs to come back. that wizard of oz movie was garbage.
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You don't realize your deification of him is the dumb part of this discussion. The so called "buzz" about his involvement only exists in your heads. His movies up to this point, while mostly good, weren't exactly lighting the world on fire. The vast majority of people who will go see this wouldn't have given a shit that it was directed by the maker of Scott Pilgrim. This movie was going to do more for him than he was gonna do for it. This movie is not suddenly doomed to be bad or to fail financially. They still have his script and all the preproduction work and the great cast (as far as we know) and there are other competent directors out there. This movie doesn't need to be some grand artistic work to make half a billion dollars. It needs a Marvel logo and a 3D surcharge.

I'm not saying he's not good at what he does and I'm not even saying the movie might not suffer in quality. Of course it's crappy that he's gone. I'm just saying ya'll just sound stupid talking about the movie is doomed like he was the only good thing going for it.
 
suaveric said:
I don't understand how you could drop the director when they were just weeks from filming. What could they still be disagreeing about at this point? Shouldn't the tone and major plot points all have been set in stone months ago?
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While we probably shouldn't immediately hinge on the word of an anonymous reddit user, the idea that the problem was more rooted in production timetable issues makes more sense than it being an actual creative issue. The creative side of things would have, by and large, already been given the stamp of approval -- and in Ant-Man's case, many years ago, since writing around Wright's script was apparently what helped shape certain things in the overall line.

I find it a little hard to believe that Marvel would have waited around on that script for literally years, and actually worked around it to preserve Wright's specific story, just to pull the plug at the 11th hour because of creative differences.
 
suaveric said:
I don't understand how you could drop the director when they were just weeks from filming. What could they still be disagreeing about at this point? Shouldn't the tone and major plot points all have been set in stone months ago?
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Either Wright fucked up the pre-production royally and Marvel panicked and booted him or he wanted to make some major, last minute changes and Marvel said no so Wright left.

At this point after all these years of development and discussion between the two parties there's really no other explanation.
 
Blader said:
While we probably shouldn't immediately hinge on the word of an anonymous reddit user, the idea that the problem was more rooted in production timetable issues makes more sense than it being an actual creative issue. The creative side of things would have, by and large, already been given the stamp of approval -- and in Ant-Man's case, many years ago, since writing around Wright's script was apparently what helped shape certain things in the overall line.

I find it a little hard to believe that Marvel would have waited around on that script for literally years, and actually worked around it to preserve Wright's specific story, just to pull the plug at the 11th hour because of creative differences.
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Could you give an example of what those might be? Sorry for the very basic question.
 
Eh, whatever. I'm fine if an Ant-Man film doesn't get made because of this. There's other far more interesting Marvel characters that should get a shot. If the Ant-Man film is still a go they should get Matthew Vaughn or Phil Lord and Chris Miller crew. Hell maybe the Russo brothers.
 
Would cornish finish it? i mean cornish wrote the screenplay (cowrote?) but then again he and wright are good friends so maybe he wouldnt do that? no idea.
 
J10 said:
You don't realize your deification of him is the dumb part of this discussion. The so called "buzz" about his involvement only exists in your heads. His movies up to this point, while mostly good, weren't exactly lighting the world on fire. The vast majority of people who will go see this wouldn't have given a shit that it was directed by the maker of Scott Pilgrim. This movie was going to do more for him than he was gonna do for it. This movie is not suddenly doomed to be bad or to fail financially. They still have his script and all the preproduction work and the great cast (as far as we know) and there are other competent directors out there. This movie doesn't need to be some grand artistic work to make half a billion dollars. It needs a Marvel logo and a 3D surcharge.

I'm not saying he's not good at what he does and I'm not even saying the movie might not suffer in quality. Of course it's crappy that he's gone. I'm just saying ya'll just sound stupid talking about the movie is doomed like he was the only good thing going for it.
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I didn't say this movie is gonna be a failure now. At this point I'm confident EVERYTHING with marvel studios logo will be a success at the box office

But the real crime is this movie won't be as great as it could have been. And honestly that's all that should matter to us all as viewers. We don't have a stake in it's success.

At least we still got based singer

And yeah like you said it could still be competent. But competent is boring and it's what this studio has been thriving off of for most of it's films
 
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