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Ant-Man
Hot Fuzz may not have hit theatres here in the states just yet, the film is more than done (it's in theatres elsewhere) leaving director Edgar Wright to begin the next big thing. With two projects on his to-do list -- Ant-Man and Them! -- Wright has already begun to discuss specifics.
Edgar Wright Talks Ant-Man
The good people over at Moviehole caught up with Edgar Wright to discuss how things were coming along with Ant-Man.
Were you a fan of the “Ant-Man” stuff?
I did read a bit of “The Avengers” as a kid, and I especially liked the Scott Lang character – by David Michelinie and John Byrne - and, of course, the imagery. I think “Ant Man” is one of those characters that the writers got bored with after about ten or fifteen issues so they’d go “What do we do now? – Hey, lets make him Giant-Man!” Then he became Yellowjacket… and the character changed… its interesting, he seems sort of like the run-of-the-litter in the comics world, and that’s exactly what appeals to me [about it]. On top of that, the visuals of him could be absolutely extraordinary. I really like the idea of doing an action film with a miniature element to it. Most ‘Shrinking’ films are about people being scared of Shrinking – “Incredible Shrinking Man”, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” – this is a film about how ‘Cool’ it would be to have that power, ya know?
Where’s it at at the moment?
It’s very early days; that’s something that I was involved with even before “Shaun of the Dead”.
Is it a solo thing for you?
Well, I’m not writing with Simon [Pegg] – whether Simon or Nick [Frost] end up being in it, I don’t know – but it’s something I’m writing alone, yeah. I first got involved with this, just after “Spaced”, when I visited a company who had all the Marvel proxies – they mentioned it then. I then saw the Marvel guys again later on, and it came up again. I told them ‘there’s something about [Ant-Man] that really intrigues me’.
Check out the entire interview with Edgar Wright at Moviehole.
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