Edgar Wright is right in the middle of putting the finishing touches on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, then he’ll be off promoting the heck out of the film. After that, the writer/director will be working on Ant-man for Marvel, but until the current movie wraps, he can only give fans a rough idea of the film.
![I haven't actually started the second draft yet--I'm not going to be able to until this film [Scott Pilgrim] is out--but what we wrote for the first draft, and what Marvel really liked, is that it's funny, but it's a genre film. It's about the level of comedy that Iron Man has. The idea is to make a high-concept genre film where it's within another genre. His suit and its power is the big gadget and it takes place in the real world. I just wanted to do something that was slightly different than the superhero origin film. I felt that between that and the various mad scientist, crazy doctor films that we've all seen, this would be a way into an origin that was slightly different. I'm not really a multi-tasker--I haven't done anything since Marvel liked our first draft.](http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/antmanwright.jpg "antmanwright")
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I could care less about Hank Pym or Scott Lang. I want to see the Irredeemable Ant-Man, Eric O’Grady. No tot be confused with the Irredeemable Mark Waid.
True, the world needs it’s Irredeemable Ant-Man movie.
Minus the unnecessary apostrophe, of course.
HEATHENS! Hank Pym is the way to go.
“I just wanted to do something that was slighty different than the superhero origin film.”
Um… Well, considering that unless you’re a Marvel Comics fan you would think “Ant-man” was a movie about the gay comedian (not that there’s anything wrong with that, Kramer) it would be damn near impossible not to make the first movie about the origin.