While Edgar Wright has remained silent in the week’s following his split from Marvel (well, apart from this image he posted to Twitter), his good buddy and regular collaborator Simon Pegg has shared a few thoughts on Wright’s Ant-Man departure during an interview with Alex Zane for Sky Movies:
“I get why perhaps it’s happened,” said Pegg (via HeyUGuys). “Maybe they want a particular thing in line with a particular other thing, but if you hire a director who has a particular vision, you’ve got to expect him or her to make a such and such film. An Edgar Wright film. That’s what that script was and it was interesting. The characters had a real journey. I can’t really say too much about it because obviously it’s not my thing, but it’s their loss.”
Wright has since been replaced on Ant-Man by Peyton Reed (The Break-Up), while Paul Rudd (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) will lead the cast as Scott Lang alongside Michael Douglas (Behind the Candelabra) as Hank Pym, and Patrick Wilson (Watchmen), Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug), Corey Stoll (House of Cards), Matt Gerald (Escape Plan) and Michael Pena (American Hustle) in as-yet-unrevealed roles.
Originally published June 13, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
