10 Things You Didn't Know About The Marvel Cinematic Universe

By Sam Hill /

4. Edgar Wright Inadvertly Helped To "Shape" The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Despite that fact that talented director Edgar Wright left Marvel's Ant-Man due to creative differences, a project he had been working on with Marvel ever since 2006, there's a lot more to the story other than what we know about his disillusion with the movie's tone. Although Wright only signed on officially as Ant-Man's de facto director in 2012, he had been developing it for years beforehand, and in doing so, left his mark. Simply put, it was - according to Marvel God Kevin Feige - Edgar Wright's pitch for Ant-Man in 2006 that helped to define what would eventually become the MCU. "We changed, frankly, some of the MCU to accommodate this version of Ant-Man," he said. "Knowing what we wanted to do with Edgar and with Ant-Man, going years and years back, helped to dictate what we did with the roster for Avengers the first time."