8 Cancelled Movies We Secretly Still Want To See

The Unmade Movie: Back when the superhero genre was basically reserved only for characters that had major cartoons in the 1990s, then-breakout director Edgar Wright wanted to do something different. In 2006, two years before Iron Man kickstarted the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he started work on an Ant-Man movie.

Various projects and other delays kept getting in the way and the film was repeatedly pushed back until it became the end of the company’s Phase 2, but just when things seemed to be coming together, Wright jumped ship. Turned out the studio pressures of making a shared universe film with a strict formula had warped his vision and he didn't want to continue.

Why It’s Such A Shame: The Ant-Man we eventually got with Peyton Reed was good enough (mainly thanks to its star, a casting choice from the original director), but the prospect of the full-Wright take eclipses that – evidenced by his test reel, he had some strong ideas for how to present the character’s microscopic action, something Reed could only really offer a pale imitation of.

Given how late he left the project - Wright left just over a year before release - the basic structure of the movie would have probably been the same, but the big difference would have likely been in the humour, with a focus more on kineticism than quips.