Marvel to Start Shooting ANT-MAN in London After THOR 2. 'Ant-Man' Movie Wouldn't Just Be For 'Avengers' Experts, Director Says - MTV Movie News. With "Captain America: The First Avenger" grossing over $65 million on its opening weekend and fans already buzzing about next year's "Avengers," Marvel's quickly expanding cinematic universe is as popular as ever. Now, from San Diego Comic-Con 2011 comes news that Marvel Studios might finally be moving ahead on a long-awaited release: Edgar Wright's "Ant-Man. " Edgar Wright Reveals Details On 'Ant Man' The "Shaun of the Dead" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" director has been talking about taking on Marvel's smallest superhero since at least 2007, promising a live-action film that would blend humor with action and would include two different Ant-Men: Henry Pym and Scott Lang. In the Marvel Comics source material, both characters make use of a special formula and suit that allows them to shrink, as well as a high-tech helmet that facilitates communication with ants and other insects.
Who would you like to see play Ant-Man? Let us know in the comments below. Marvel ’Ant-Man’ script complete - not in ’Avengers’ - National Comic Book Movies. Joe Cornish revealed at the Kapow Comic Convention on Saturday that the "Ant-Man" script is complete and been submitted to Marvel Studios. "We delivered the second draft of 'Ant-Man two days ago, and we're really happy with it," he said. Director Joe Cornish and executive producer Edgar Wright have talked about the "Ant-Man" film, and they revealed a little bit of their progress on the film adaptation comic fans have been speculating about for a while now.
“We’re currently working on it, not right now. But the day after tomorrow we’ll go to Los Angeles and…[nods to Edgar],” Cornish said about the status of the film. “We kinda have a stock response now, it’s true to say we’ve been writing it in some form. Weirdly, the treatment for ‘Ant-Man’ exists before Marvel Studios. There was a treatment that Joe and I did when Artisan had the kind of lower-rung Marvel properties and we wrote a treatment for it that exists before ‘Hot Fuzz’.
" Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish Offer Minor Ant-Man Update: Near Finishing Script! In chatting with The Playlist at the SXSW, Attack The Block director Joe Cornish, & executive producer Edgar Wright offered a slight update on Marvel Studios' long-productive Ant-Man adaption. With Wright directing the film, and Cornish co-writing... “We’re currently working on it, not right now. But the day after tomorrow we’ll go to Los Angeles and…[nods to Edgar],” Cornish said about the status of the film. “We kinda have a stock response now, it’s true to say we’ve been writing it in some form,” “Weirdly, the treatment for ‘Ant-Man’ exists before Marvel Studios. There was a treatment that Joe and I did when Artisan had the kind of lower-rung Marvel properties and we wrote a treatment for it that exists before ‘Hot Fuzz.’ Basically, when I met Kevin Feige I said, ‘Oh, did u ever get our ‘Ant-Man’ treatment?’ And he had never read it so we submitted it properly like four years later.
Edgar Wright talks about Ant-Man.