Original ANT-MAN Director Edgar Wright's Scrapped Plans For The Hero's First Solo-Outing Revealed By Editor

I mean if Oceans 11 could juggle that many characters for a heist flick, I'm sure Wright could.

Edgar Wright was fired for putting his Ant Man in Kevin Feige's wife

I liked the first Ant-Man but one of the biggest disappointments of the MCU was not getting to see what Edgar Wright would have done.

Considering the fact his version would've apparently barely featured Hope and not set up Wasp, I'm good, thanks.

Falcon was wasted in that film along with all the other cameos and garbage they tried to shove into the Ant-Man film and series over time, a disgraceful attempt to try and promote Ant-Man through the use of other Avengers. It was moronic to start off with Scot rather than Hank and Janet, you could have actually established a linage of Superheroes lasting for over a decade yet you rushed through it all to the point where we've passed down through three generations over the course of three films.

Disney's handling of the Ant-Man franchise and the decision to get rid of talented directors is a perfect example of why we saw a collapse in faith in the MCU to the point where we had directors and writers getting swapped out constantly.

We need more Edgar Wright movies. I didn't like Last Night in Soho though, but I have enjoyed his previous films.

So, he did Baby Driver instead.

There's a story, pre-Marvel Studios, of which a director (most likely Edgar Wright) came in to pitch a Marvel film based on Ant-Man. And the studio executives didn't understand the pitch, was Ant-Man, half-ant & half-man? The Marvel executive sitting as an advisor, (most likely Avid Arad) came to the conclusion that studios would never understand or be able to utilize the potential of Marvel characters. That was the genesis to Marvel Entertainment deciding to form Marvel Studios in 2005.

When Marvel Studios was originally created Ant-Man was one of the early films being made, alongside Iron Man & Hulk. There was no cinematic universe. Just Marvel making its own films based on their own characters. There was no particular path. After announcing Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, Avengers, Marvel Studios was still planning non-Avengers films, like putting Runaways into motion. Edgar Wright was still planning his non-Avenger connected Ant-Man film. Throughout 2005-2010, Marvel Studios was operating on two separate tracks, Avengers based characters and independent films which weren't interconnected to Avengers. The shift changed between 2010-2011 when Marvel Studios decided to make all their films interconnected. That decision killed the Runaways film, which already had actors attached in some capacity. And it made Edgar Wright's plan to operate outside of the MCU eventually untenable.

Kevin Feige tried to be diplomatic for years to allow Edgar Wright's vision for his film to co-exist outside the Avengers plan yet still have the character to be connected in future MCU appearances. Joss Whedon wanted to use Janet Van Dyne, Wasp, in the Avengers but Kevin Feige said that character was under the Ant-Man franchise under Wright. So, Whedon utilized Black Widow instead. But the diplomacy ended in 2014 when Edgar couldn't accept the MCU connections being written into his film by new writers hired by the Marvel Creative Committee. It was a mutual accepted separation.

What's interesting NOW is Marvel Studios is in the position to offer projects not connected to the overall MCU. There are currently no connections to the MCU, outside of visual cues, with Moon Knight and Werewolf by Night. The multiverse allows creators a variety of ways to tell individual stories. What Marvel Studios couldn't offer Edgar Wright in 2014 is attainable in 2023. The question would be is there any character Edgar would be interested in if given the opportunity. Somehow, I think Edgar is over doing established superhero characters and has moved on.