What pisses me off is the people that feel they have to tear down Reed in order to build Edgar Wright up. That kind of fanboy crap I can't stand for.
Same. It's like these hardcore fans blame Reed for what happened between Marvel and Wright. These fans should be thankful that we have a guy like Reed on this project. Marvel Studios could have hired someone else who would have been a complete push over and did whatever the studio wanted. Instead, we have a director who has been in the film industry longer then Wright, a director who has a good relationship with Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios, a director managed to come into a difficult situation and found ways of making everything work, a director who already cast actors wanted to work with (Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly have all stated they wanted to work with Reed) and finally, a director who is also a massive Marvel comic book fan who has just as much passionate and excitement for Ant-Man as Wright does. Peyton Reed saved this film and judging by the footage we've seen so far, we are getting a great popcorn MCU comic book film this summer.
As far as I'm concerned, a fully seen Edgar Wright Ant-Man film should have been made years ago when it was first announced along side the first Iron Man film. At that time, Wright's Ant-Man could have help set up the MCU, much like how the first Iron Man, Thor and Captain America films did.
Oh,
screw Joss Whedon for his recent comments on Edgar Wright and Ant-Man.
The best screenplay Marvel ever had? Sure, that could be true, but it's not like Wright's script was thrown out. The structure and overall story are the same, except a few changes that Adam McKay (another Marvel comic fan) and Paul Rudd made. The rewritten screenplay that was used during filming could have been just as good as Wright's original, if not better.
I like how James Gunn approached the news about Edgar Wright and Marvel splitting ways over Ant-Man.
Gunn said last June:
Sometimes you have friends in a relationship. You love each of them dearly as individuals and think they’re amazing people. When they talk to you about their troubles, you do everything you can to support them, to keep them together, because if you love them both so much doesn’t it make sense they should love each other? But little by little you realize, at heart, they aren’t meant to be together – not because there’s anything wrong with either of them, but they just don’t have personalities that mesh in a comfortable way. They don’t make each other happy. Although it’s sad to see them split, when they do, you’re surprisingly relieved, and excited to see where their lives take them next.
It’s easy to try to make one party “right” and another party “wrong” when a breakup happens, but it often isn’t that simple. Or perhaps it’s even more simple than that – not everyone belongs in a relationship together. It doesn’t mean they’re not wonderful people.
And that’s true of both Edgar Wright and Marvel. One of them isn’t a person, but I think you get what I mean.
Sometimes you think two people or two parties will mix perfectly. Like it's meant to be. In this case, it's not true. IMO, Wright was coming from working with the same producers of his films and those producers pretty much agreed with Wright about everything he wanted to put on film. Wright is developing his new film called Baby Driver. I hope it's a good movie. Wright is a talented guy, but who is producing it with him? The same people who produced his previous films. Clearly Feige and the Marvel team believed in Wright's Ant-Man screenplay. Feige very much believed in Wright's Ant-Man story because the two were working on the film for nearly 10 years, but it seems the Marvel team wanted a slightly different approach to making the film at the end of the day.
As far as I see this whole Edgar Wright / Marvel Studios mess, Peyton Reed's upcoming Ant-Man is not some inferior version of Wright's vision. It's just stupid to think of the film as inferior. It's like wondering how Back to the Future would have been like if Michael J. Fox had not replaced Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly or if Michelle Pfeiffer would have been a better actress for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs or if Steven Spielberg would have given Interstellar an overall better direction. We can always wonder what could have been... but it wasn't meant to be.
Peyton Reed's Ant-Man film is the Ant-Man film we were always going to get and that's fine with me.
