ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype got the chance to talk to Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige, about the upcoming May 7th release of Iron Man 2, and other things related to what's going on in the "Marvel Cinematic Universe." They have posted a little bit from their full interview that should be up next week.
Curious at the status of the announced Ant-Man film. Edgar Wright was announced to direct the film Four years ago, so that was one thing they wanted to ask Marvel Studios' head honcho about.
"Edgar was in L.A. last week, we sat down, and we started working on a calendar of when to get him back into it once he finishes promoting 'Scott Pilgrim,' so I think towards the end of this year, early next year we'd start looking at early prep for that, but certainly for a release date after 'The Avengers.'"
Wondering about the rumors on CHUD earlier this week, about Marvel Studios looking to make lower-budget movies based on some of the other Marvel characters not currently under license to other studios.
"I saw that story the other day, and I was pleased with it," he replied. "It is something that we're looking at the ongoing cinematic universe and where to go after 'Avengers,' which we look at as a beginning and not an ending. Listen, the truth is that there are thousands and thousands of characters. Can they all be movies? No, but when you go and look again at the first two movies that started this new model era. The first one was 'Blade,' which no one knew was a Marvel character and never had his own title, was just an interesting character in 'Tomb of Dracula.' And then there was 'X-Men' which was the top-selling comic at the time for many, many years, and that was done well. So certainly we're making a conscious effort of looking at the characters, whether they have marquee value or not, are just interesting stories and can continue to define, which is what I've been trying to do, almost coming up on ten years at Marvel, to continue to push the boundaries of what a comic book movie is and a definition of a comic book movie. "
So, being that Ant-Man is the only character after Avengers, that actually has a director, and the film has been discussed for the past 4 years, its obvious that the film should be Marvel's next film in the Cinematic Universe.