With Edgar Wright gone, is the Ant-Man director’s chair the one that no major filmmaker wants?
But still: Scott Derrickson given the reins toDoctor Strange?
In fact, its more than long mooted.
Edgar Wright has been developing the film with the studio for the best part of a decade.
Hes co-written the script with Joe Cornish, he oversaw test footage.
He was working on anAnt-Manidea for years before Marvel took interest.
The go-ahead was duly given.
Wright then went off to makeThe Worlds End, and since then, hes been assembling hisAnt-Mancast.
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From the outside, all looked to be going tickety-boo.
But then, very suddenly, came the news that Edgar Wright had walked away.
Eventually, the details were filled in.
Marvel, it seemed, had had a wobble.
The Hollywood Reporter has put forward that Kevin Feige had ordered a new rewrite of theAnt-Manscript.
Wright the man Feige had once announced was the only reason were making the movie understandably walked.
But at the last possible moment arguably at the moment it mattered the most Marvel lost confidence.
Even if Marvel wanted to start production tomorrow, it doesnt seem that it can.
We should spare a thought in all of this for Paul Rudd.
But it leads us to the big question here: whoisgoing to directAnt-Man?
Since then, theyve either publicly distanced themselves from the job, or are said to have passed.
Its like a game of pass the parcel that nobody wants to win.
But then why would a good, established director want to take this on?
This is a project that someones invested nearly a decade of their life to get to this stage.
Maybe, maybe not.
So what can it do?
From the fan side of the fence, there are two plausible options.
Number one: get Edgar Wright back on the phone.
Right what has gone wrong.
Commit to making the film that presumably Marvel signed up for in the first place.
And get on with it.
Option two: delay it, possibly can it.
But then the third option, the least fan preferred, is clearly in the running.
Marvel is said to be actively seeking out a new director and pressing ahead with what it has.
The news stories that have dropped over the past week seem to corroborate that.