Ant-Man: 10 Reasons Edgar Wright's Departure Dooms The Film

2. It's A Waste Of Eight Years' Work

Ant-Man has been a pet project of Edgar Wright's since 2003 when he and Joe Cornish wrote a script treatment for Artisan Entertainment, who were the current owners of the character's movie rights. He was approached by Marvel in 2006 and hired to direct. Since then, he has delivered multiple script drafts to the company and repeatedly been forced to adapt to the continuing expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His abandonment of the film essentially throws much of that work down the toilet. Presumably the script written by Wright and Cornish will still be used by Marvel, but the new director is likely to want to assert their own vision on the project. It is likely that the final film will be something completely different to the original concept that Wright and Cornish pitched in 2003 and it could even be vastly different to the film that Wright was making only a couple of weeks ago. The loss of a director at such a late developmental stage is a tough hurdle for the film to overcome. Given that Wright had invested so much of himself into the film, the resulting product could end up being a weird hybrid of ideas that never quite gels. No-one wants to see that happen.