The Single Biggest Mistake Each MCU Film And TV Show Has Made

This is a very painful 'What If'.

Getting one of the best comedy filmmakers... well, ever on-board for Ant-Man was an incredible coup on Marvel Studios' part but alas, Edgar Wright - and his enormously talented co-writer Joe Cornish, who made Attack the Block and Netflix's Lockwood and Co. - parted ways with Marvel since, as Wright put it, "They didn't really want to make an Edgar Wright movie."

It's hard not to feel bitter at Marvel about this, since it shows an unfortunate unwillingness to take risks and do something different with their movies. What's more, replacing Wright with Peyton Reed, a director best known for mediocre studio comedies that had nothing whatsoever in common with this, definitely wasn't the right way to go.

Reed didn't do the best job in the director's chair and worse still, although the final film is perfectly good, Ant-Man is still a fairly neutered and paint-by-numbers affair that sorely needed someone like Edgar Wright to give it some real artistic flair and creativity.

Having said that, Wright isn't entirely gone from the film. You can still feel his influence in some places, which makes the picture a tonally disjointed experience. Basically, this movie really, really needed to just stick with the guy who'd been developing it for eight years instead of suddenly changing hands and being given to a far less talented director at the last moment.