The 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' helmer calls the initial 'Ant-Man' script 'the most Marvel script I'd read' so he doesn't understand why Edgar Wright departed.
- April 22, 2015
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Joss Whedon seems to regret Edgar Wright's departure from "Ant-Man" since he loves the script that Wright co-wrote with Joe Cornish. The "Avengers: Age of Ultron" director even calls it the best script Marvel has ever had.
"I don't get it," he told BuzzFeed. "I thought the script was not only the best script that Marvel had ever had, but the most Marvel script I'd read. I had no interest in Ant-Man. [Then] I read the script, and was like, 'Of course! This is so good!' It reminded me of the books when I read them. Irreverent and funny and could make what was small large, and vice versa."
"I don't know where things went wrong. But I was very sad. Because I thought, 'This is a no-brainer. This is Marvel getting it exactly right,' " he added. "Whatever dissonance that came, whatever it was, I don't understand why it was bigger than a marriage that seemed so right. But I'm not going to say it was definitely all Marvel, or Edgar's gone mad! I felt like they would complement each other by the ways that they were different. And, uh, somethin' happened."
When it was first announced that Edgar Wright left "Ant-Man" due to creative differences, Joss Whedon took it to Twitter to salute the director. The movie was later taken over by Payton Reed at the helm. The script was re-written by Adam McKay and the lead actor Paul Rudd. The movie will arrive July 17 in North American theaters.
— Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) May 24, 2014
