While most of the other
Avengers installments are moving forward with proper pacing,
Edgar Wright's Ant-Man seems to have stalled this year whilst the Brit director has fun making his first U.S. movie (
Scot Pilgrim vs. The World), leaving the the ant-loving superhero with a huge question mark hanging above his feelers.
Box Office Mag yesterday published an update from Mr.Wright himself;
"I haven't actually started the second draft yet--I'm not going to be able to until this film 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 "
It's no secret that Ant-Man is one of the cheesier superheroes in Marvel's arsenal, so how exactly does the
Hot Fuzz/Shaun of The Dead filmmaker plan on telling this particular hero's story?
"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."
No lead actor has been named at this point, but recent rumors have linked fanboy-favorite
Nathan Fillion (Serenity) to the project, but even before that there were rumors about Lost actor
Josh Holloway being given the ability to shrink and enlarge at will. His torso, that is. Whoever it is, lets be comforted by the fact that Wright is a great director and knows what he's doing, and that the Ant-Man movie is probably Wright's next and will see the light of day before The Avengers does in 2012.