The Scott Lang depicter assists Adam McKay in polishing the script written by Edgar Wright who left the film due to creative differences.
- Oct 18, 2014
AceShowbiz - Adam McKay credits Paul Rudd for helping him rewrite the final script of "Ant-Man". The actor who will play Scott Lang helped polish the script written by departing director Edgar Wright. "I've always known Paul Rudd's a really good writer from improvising with him on set, but I had no idea he was that good," he says to Collider. "He's really great with dialogue."
"So the two of us holed up in hotel rooms on the east and west coast, and I think it was like six to eight weeks we just ground it out and did a giant rewrite of the script. I was really proud of what we did, I really thought we put some amazing stuff in there and built on an already strong script from Edgar Wright and sort of just enhanced some stuff."
"We added some new action beats," he continues. "I grew up on Marvel Comics so the geek in me was in heaven that I got to add a giant action sequence to the movie; I was so excited. So we did, we added some cool new action. There's a lot that's already in there from what Edgar did, there's a lot of dialogue and character still in there."
"We just shaped the whole thing, we just tried to streamline it, make it cleaner, make it a little bigger, a little more aggressive, make it funnier in places - we just basically did a rewrite. Edgar had a really good script. But we just had a blast, and Rudd was just so much fun to write with. I walked away saying, 'Hey, you and I gotta write a script together.' "
The movie is slated for July 17, 2015 release. Michael Douglas portrays Dr. Hank Pym, Evangeline Lilly plays his daughter Hope Van Dyne, and Corey Stoll stars as Yellowjacket. Edgar Wright was originally set to direct the flick, but he left due to creative differences. "[Rudd] called me when Edgar Wright stepped away from the project and told me what was going on," McKay recalled.
McKay was initially reluctant to get involved in the film because of his friendship with Wright, but he was impressed by Wright's materials. While he couldn't sit behind the lens due to scheduling conflicts, he agreed to do the rewrite.
