Given that Guardians Of The Galaxy has become a massive success it seems rather short-sighted to question the prospects of an unproven Marvel superhero, but Ant-Man has had too many seismic shifts as of late to not question it. The film was being worked on long before Tony Stark got trapped in that cave, with Edgar Wright attached to direct way back in 2006. Slowly morphing as the MCU developed, Ant-Man is now the start of the studio's Phase 3. And what a daring film it was shaping up to be. For a studio whose main drawback seems to be they fall too readily into formula, the casting of Paul Rudd as burglar Scott Lang, shot through Wright's hyper-kinetic direction promised something distinct. Unfortunately Wright's vision clashed with the studio's and he left the project a few months ago. This wasn't the first time his take had proven controversial (a draft he wrote back in 2003 for Artisan Entertainment wasn't family-friendly enough), but you'd think Marvel of 2014 would be more inclined to take a 'risk' when we're dealing with a unique directing force yet to make a bad film. Peyton Reed, who has replaced Wright, will no doubt put his all into the film, but it's unlikely it'll be enough to bring the tricky character properly to life. As the film arrives mere months after Avengers: Age Of Ultron the odds of the movie bombing at the box office are slim, but it's quality is far from certain.
