8 Unexpected Positives From Marvel's Ant-Man
7. Everything Is All-Wright
Its easy (and a little agonising) to imagine just what Edgar Wrights version of the movie wouldve looked like, had he been able to see it through to the end. To do so, however, is not only a fruitless task (its gone and it aint coming back), but also unfair on the movie that Peyton Reed, Adam McKay and Paul Rudd have managed to put together.
Theres still plenty of Wrights initial story left intact, with Reed telling Uproxx that some of the key elements from the film had come from the Cornetto Trilogy director. This included the decision to make it a heist movie, somewhat based on the comic To Steal an Ant-Man, and the relationship between Hank Pym and Scott Lang. The setting for the climactic battle, too, came from the Wright and Cornish script, and Reed described this as genius.
However, there were plenty of flourishes added to the film after Wrights departure that serve as genuine highlights of the movie, such as a trip to the films version of the Microverse, and the now well-documented addition of an Avenger.
The movie as directed by Edgar Wright may well have been better, but its impossible to know for certain. Itd certainly have been different, and would not have contained a couple of those touches that worked really well in the finished product. And in the end, regardless of the men behind the camera and the script, we ended up with a very good film, and that should be enough.