Out in SXSW promoting
Joe Cornish's directorial debut Attack the Block, executive producer
Edgar Wright and Cornish himself revealed to
The Playlist that the duo still haven't yet completed their draft for Marvel's long-gestating superhero film
Ant-Man...
Were currently working on it, not right now. But the day after tomorrow well go to Los Angeles and, Cornish said about the status of the film. We kinda have a stock response now, its true to say weve been writing it in some form... Weirdly, the treatment for Ant-Man exists before Marvel Studios. There was a treatment that Joe and I did when Artisan had the kind of lower-rung Marvel properties and we wrote a treatment for it that exists before Hot Fuzz. Basically, when I met Kevin Feige I said, Oh, did you ever get our Ant-Man treatment? and he had never read it so we submitted it properly like four years later. So its something me and Joe have genuinely been working on for nearly a decade and at some point well finish the script.
The Playlist hint that once Cornish & Wright meet in L.A. this week, they will submit their finished updated draft to Marvel and hopefully a greenlight will be forthcoming. There is even a chance that the movie, previously hinted as being a high tech spy heist adventure (i.e. a blending of superhero and genre, like Captain America) could be the director's next film and might join Iron Man 3 on the 2013 Marvel slate. Since Scott Pilgrim vs. The World opened last August, Wright hasn't committed himself to anything. We do know that he has been working on a Jean-Pierre Melville inspired minimalist thriller
titled Baby Driver and there's still chance of a final part of his Blood & Ice Cream trilogy -
The World's End with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost - but it seems Pegg and Wright's schedules never seem to free up at the same time for them to do it.
As Wright looks finally to be free for some writing this summer, Pegg is making both
Mission Impossible 4 and
Star Trek 2 back-to-back. Then there's
Jon Ronson's conspiracy novel Them, which personally is the project I most hope comes next, but there's been no update on that for years. One gig that probably won't be next for Wright is an episode of
The Walking Dead's second series. With his tie to zombies from Shaun of the Dead, Wright always seemed a good fit to direct an episode of the show and he has confirmed that he has been approached, but probably won't do it...
Frank asked me to do a Walking Dead, actually... I feel that theres some subject matter that, like, even though itd be great. And I love that show. I actually watched four of the six episodes uninterrupted in one runit was like zombie Pringles. I think that with something like that, with some TV shows, you wanna be in on the ground floor, I really enjoyed the first season, and I wouldnt wanna be the guy that comes in and fucks it up, Wright added.
Or in other words... "thanks, but you should have asked me earlier!".