Adam McKay On Rewriting ANT-MAN; Reveals How Much Of Edgar Wright's Work Remains

Adam McKay On Rewriting ANT-MAN; Reveals How Much Of Edgar Wright's Work Remains

Anchorman director Adam McKay talks here about being drafted in to rewrite Ant-Man, revealing that he worked with Paul Rudd on the screenplay and confirming that new action scenes have been added as well ass how much of what Edgar Wright did remains. Hit the jump for details!

By JoshWilding - Oct 17, 2014 03:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Ant-Man
Source: Collider

In the above video interview with Collider, Adam McKay talks in detail about his work on Ant-Man, revealing that it was in fact Paul Rudd who got him to join the Marvel Studios project for one final rewrite after some of Marvel's own in house writers tampered with Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish's draft, resulting in him departing the movie he had been attached to for a number of years. "[Rudd] called me when Edgar Wright stepped away from the project and told me what was going on. I went and met with Marvel, and I was a little dubious just because I’m friends with Edgar and I didn’t know what the story was, and then when I kind of heard what happened, that Edgar had parted ways, and then I saw their materials, I was like, ‘God this is pretty cool’. Ultimately I didn’t want to jump in as a director, I had too many other projects going and it was too tight, but I thought, ‘You know what, I can rewrite this, and I can do a lot of good by rewriting it."

That explains why he didn't direct then, and he goes on to reveal in the interview that he and Rudd actually spend a couple of months working together and completely rewriting the screenplay, adding: "I really thought we put some amazing stuff in there and built on an already strong script from Edgar Wright and sort of just enhanced some stuff. We added some new action beats. I grew up on Marvel Comics so the geek in me was in heaven that I got to add a giant action sequence to the movie; I was so excited. So we did, we added some cool new action." Now, the big question! Just how much of Edgar Wright's original Ant-Man vision remains? Peyton Reed is obviously directing now, but many fans hope it will still have the Shaun of the Dead director's unique approach in there somewhere. "There’s a lot that’s already in there from what Edgar did, there’s a lot of dialogue and character still in there. “We just shaped the whole thing, we just tried to streamline it, make it cleaner, make it a little bigger, a little more aggressive, make it funnier in places—we just basically did a rewrite. Edgar had a really good script. But we just had a blast, and Rudd was just so much fun to write with. I walked away saying, ‘Hey, you and I gotta write a script together.'" What do you guys think about these comments? 
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Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 10/17/2014, 3:36 PM
Intriguing, cautiously optimistic. New action beats ayy
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 10/17/2014, 3:36 PM
Sounds like McKay is game to director a Marvel film in the future.
thewonderer
thewonderer - 10/17/2014, 3:37 PM
Adam McKay and Paul Rudd don't hold a candle to Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish in terms of writing. It's insulting they think they do. Despite the obvious "Edgar is my friend" and "already strong script", this comes off as arrogant to me. Asserting you enhanced some stuff? This coming from the guy whose resume is full of decent comedies at best.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 10/17/2014, 3:37 PM
I got to add a giant action sequence to the movie
add a giant action sequence
giant action sequence
giant action

well shit
DEVLIN712
DEVLIN712 - 10/17/2014, 3:38 PM
Sounds ensuring, can't wait to see this.
Pasto
Pasto - 10/17/2014, 3:39 PM
My jimmies remain unrustled.
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 10/17/2014, 3:40 PM
@thewonderer To be fair, McKay is just trying to work on what Marvel wants him to add/subtract. I do agree with you on Edgar and Cornish being very shrewd, talented screenwriters who are very good at "showing, not telling".
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 10/17/2014, 3:41 PM
@MarkyMarkRises I think we just found a Transformer!
wallhead
wallhead - 10/17/2014, 3:42 PM


JamesMan
JamesMan - 10/17/2014, 3:44 PM
make it funnier in places

No, sorry buddy, there's no way you could write a funnier script than Edgar Wright.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/17/2014, 3:45 PM
Triggy.
thewonderer
thewonderer - 10/17/2014, 3:46 PM
@JamesMan

He probably added gangster jokes with T.I.

That'll enhance the "already strong" Edgar Wright script.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/17/2014, 3:46 PM
It's never a bad thing to have two comedic geniuses like Wright and McKay to glance and edit your script.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 10/17/2014, 3:47 PM
I still have no idea what to make of this whole situation.
Bekss
Bekss - 10/17/2014, 3:59 PM
Seems like there will be a lot from Wrigth in the movie.
bbman182
bbman182 - 10/17/2014, 4:01 PM
@thewonderer how does the writer of Step Brothers, The Campaign, talladega nights, and anchorman not hold a candle to Edgar Wright in writing a heist action comedy starring Paul Rudd??
marccampos
marccampos - 10/17/2014, 4:01 PM
Edgar Wright´s has jump out from this movie because he want this "creative control" shit.
I think all the bad ideias in this movie come from him.
Then Marvel has to fix it.
This Adam McKay guy is friend of Wright and he has to be polite about it... All this talk make it very clear.
COREY6487
COREY6487 - 10/17/2014, 4:04 PM
people need to get off marvels back about edgar... the guy was given 6 [frick]ing years to make a movie and spent so long writing and rewriting the script marvel had to get someone to rewrite and finish.

whedon wanted wasp in avengers but couldnt because of edgar. all hes done is delay marvels plans. glad marvel get someone that gets the job done. simple as that.

i trust marvel a lot more than anyone they get on board to make a movie. even joss whedon. if marvel approve or dont then im with them. they have proved they have a plan and its working.
batz11
batz11 - 10/17/2014, 4:09 PM
I'm not cautiously optimistic, just optimistic...
jCamer0n
jCamer0n - 10/17/2014, 4:09 PM
"the days of the Iron Man 1's are over"

You are too harsh. they just released an awesome action movie in the form of Cap:TWS.
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