MCU: 10 Behind The Scenes Feuds Marvel Studios Doesn't Want You To Know

When it was revealed that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright had signed up to take the helm of Ant-Man for Marvel Studios, the news received an overwhelmingly positive reaction. After all, the filmmaker bringing his unique sensibilities to the then still young Marvel Cinematic Universe could only be a good thing.

Unfortunately, Wright's commitments to other projects meant that Ant-Man continued to slip down the calendar, and by the time he was ready to start work...well, Marvel Studios had changed a lot.

The studio now had a shared world in its hands, and a standalone Ant-Man movie that wouldn't tie into the wider MCU was just no good. Kevin Feige tasked a number of in-house writers with making changes to Wright's screenplay so it would tie into this shared world, and sent the filmmaker a tonne of notes about what they wanted from the movie.

For an acclaimed writer like Wright, that was a borderline insult. "I was the writer-director on it and then they wanted to do a draft without me, and having written all my other movies, that’s a tough thing to move forward [with]," he said. With that, Wright walked away from the project due to "creative differences," and his Ant-Man was unfilmed (only a few set pieces remained).