Edgar Wright Gives Ant-Man Update

Writer/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim, Hot Fuzz) talked briefly with Box Office Magazine about his big screen adaptation of Marvel's Ant-Man which has been long in development. Wright says he hasn't yet started writing a second draft of the script, and won't be able to until September. He also talks about his vision for the film. Read his comments after the jump.

I haven't actually started the second draft yet–I'm not going to be able to until this film [Scott Pilgrim] is out–but what we wrote for the first draft, and what Marvel really liked, is that it's funny, but it's a genre film. It's about the level of comedy that Iron Man has. The idea is to make a high-concept genre film where it's within another genre. His suit and its power is the big gadget and it takes place in the real world. I just wanted to do something that was slightly different than the superhero origin film. I felt that between that and the various mad scientist, crazy doctor films that we've all seen, this would be a way into an origin that was slightly different. I'm not really a multi-tasker–I haven't done anything since Marvel liked our first draft.

I've heard nothing but amazing things about Wright's first draft. I've even heard that Marvel wants to push the project into production as soon as Wright becomes available. Read more from Wright, including why Nick Frost and Simon Pegg weren't given roles in Scott Pilgrim, in Box Office Magazine.

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