When Marvel Studios announced its plans for Phase Two of the Cinematic Universe at the San Diego Comic-Con International earlier this month, one thing that was notably absent was a release date for British filmmaker Edgar Wright’s long-gestating Ant-Man adaptation. Well, according to the folks at Latino Review, the plan is for Ant-Man to go into production in London early next year once filming has wrapped on the Alan Taylor-directed Thor: The Dark World, with the film then joining Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy as part of Marvel’s 2014 slate.
Wright is of course currently gearing up to reunite with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the third instalment of the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’, The World’s End, with cameras due to begin rolling on the sci-fi comedy next month. The director has also recently become attached to the J.J. Abrams-produced sci-fi Collider, which will he will presumably now shoot after Ant-Man, assuming this latest report from Latino Review proves accurate.
Although it was first announced way back in 2006, progress on Ant-Man has moved at a snail’s pace as Wright and Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) worked on perfecting the screenplay. However, things have been moving forward rapidly this year, with Wright shooting a test reel in June that was subsequently screened at Comic Con, and it’s also been rumoured that he may film a post-credits scene for the currently-in-production Iron Man 3, which will see Hank Pym confronting the nuclear physicist Chen Lu, a.k.a. Radioactive Man.
Originally published July 31, 2012. Updated April 10, 2018.
