BABY DRIVER Director Edgar Wright Explains Why He Felt He Needed To Depart From Marvel's ANT-MAN

@BatmanxBatgirl - @ThaIllest89 All the Set Pieces were develop by Wright, a lot of the first Act was kept the same, they change how Hank Pym manipulates Scott Lang with presenting charges againts him if he doesnt help him to stop Cross.

They also did change how Scott and the Crew use the suit in a lot of different heists to steal money.

I suspect they rewrote Scott character from a stupid Criminal to that kind of Robin Hood we end up seeing in the movie, where he clearly isnt a criminal because the Company stole the money and he try to give it back to the people, instead of "I need money for my family, i will do anything in my power, even steal money".

So i would say all the good parts of Ant Man:

-The Action Set Pieces, the Visual Jokes, the Tone, The Genre, The Main Story and even the Casting were develop by Edgar Wright.

What Marvel did was:

-Make Scott less of a Stupid Criminal and more of a Robin Hood kind of hero who did nothing wrong, because the company was evil.

-Make Hank Pym less of an antagonist, who manipulates and uses Scott and who was a really bad father to Hope.

-Rewrite the part where Scott Lang saves the day, defeats Darren Cross and gets the Suit, but he becomes accidentally a villain, when we discover that the pym particles after prolonged use cause addiction and instability, the reason why Hank didnt wanted Hope to use the suit and he couldnt used anymore.

-Make Darren Cross the main villain, rewrite his character to take the role that Scott Lang had in the original film, where he feels that Hank use him and betray him, make him go crazy about power and control, respect and such things.

-Add at the end the "Quantum Realm" Set Piece...

@Gmoney84 - A quality, above-average film > franchise synergy.

If Marvel wants this cinematic universe to have staying power, to carry on post-Infinity War, they're gonna have to let directors tell the stories they want and learn to break the mol they set upon themselves.

@pesmerga44 - I guess what I'm thinking is that they should have let Wright tell his own story regardless, and let Marvel figure out how to tie it together after seeing the final product.

Maybe it's my Wright bias, I dunno.

@TheRealTomServo - I think there is something we can both agree on. We both want the new season of MSK 3000 on Netflix to hurry up and come out.

@pesmerga44 - You're 100% right and I can't really argue otherwise. I think this whole shared universe boner Hollywood has is making me really bitter. I kinda miss superhero films not being linked so closely because it gives more freedom to the storyteller. Not only superhero films, but genre films in general. The amount of Star Wars we've been getting makes me wanna shoot myself. Not to mention this Dark Universe bullshit. I do understand that a filmmaker needs to compromise when doing work for a larger studio. But I just wish it were simpler for these movies, I guess. Call me nostalgic.

Also, I saw Baby Driver in an early screening. It kicked ass.

@TheRealTomServo - I can agree that all the studios trying to do shared universe movies is becoming ridiculous and a lot are doing it terribly. The Mummy movie wasn't terrible but wasn't good either and I have no desire to see a shared monster universe. Hasbro and Paramount are talking about making a Hasbro toyline shared universe with Transformers, G.I. Joe, Rom the Space Knight, etc... I also find how Disney is running Star Wars to be pretty aggravating. I really don't care about teenage or young twenty something Han Solo first flying the Millennium Falcon.

@pesmerga44 - I thought the Mummy was pretty terrible, honestly. Even if it was decent, I'd hate it solely for what it stands for. I just don't think studios realize they should be making 100 $1,000,000 films instead of 1 $100,000,000 film because they're guaranteed a bigger return.

Also yeah, MST3K was great this year.