New details for Edgar Wright’s unmade ANT-MAN movie: it included a gang of 15 people who pull off a heist

Thanks to Ant man publisher Colby Parker Jr.We have some interesting and cool new details to share with you regarding Ant man movie which was developed by Edgar Wright for Marvel Studios. He definitely had a different take on the film and I think that would have been great!

While speaking to The Direct, Parker Jr. said Wright was looking to delve into the film’s heist story and Scott Lang would have a much bigger team. He said:

“His film was still a heist film. But remember how we have three pipelines. I think there were, like, 15 people within the gang, the gang that was going to do the big heist.

A crew of 15 would have been really cool to see, but also would have been fun and would have introduced a lot of interesting and colorful characters. Another big thing Wright really pushed for was a story that was completely isolated from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“I don’t think there would have been any more Marvel characters created. I think he would have been a standalone. He didn’t want any other Marvel characters in the movie… I don’t think the Falcon would have been in Ant-Man.”

This is the main reason Wright didn’t make the film. Kevin Feige was in the business of creating this shared universe and Wright didn’t want to share. I understand! But I also think Wright was on the right track, and while I enjoyed Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man, I know for a fact that Wright could have made a better film. When previously discussing leaving the project, the director said:

“The more diplomatic answer is that I wanted to do a Marvel movie, but I don’t think they really wanted to do an Edgar Wright movie. I was the writer-director and then they wanted to do a draft without me, and having written all my other movies , it’s a difficult thing to carry on Suddenly you become a director for commission, you are a little less emotionally involved and you start to wonder why you are there, really.

When asked if he had ever seen the film that was released, Wright said:

“Do you want to see your ex girlfriend have sex?” Like, ‘No, I’m fine.’ The closest I came to it was someone sitting next to me on a flight was watching it. And when I saw that the person sitting next to me was going to watch the movie, I thought, hmm, maybe I’m going to work on my laptop.

While he’ll never watch the film, Wright explained that the last person you’ll hear badmouthing the film is him:

“I will never be forced to talk bad about it, because the truth is that my friends are into it. Paul Rudd is a friend of mine and we are still very good friends. And in fact, I saw him in New York the other week and we had dinner and it was the first time we’ve had a chance to sit properly since this whole thing. And the one thing I’ll say about that movie is that I’m glad I got a writing credit, because it sort of makes up for having been working on the script for about eight years. The second is that I had my friend, Paul, a part in a major film. And I told Paul — he knows I haven’t seen it — I said, ‘You know, I haven’t seen the movie and I’m never going to watch it. I saw you in Civil War, and you were the funniest part.’”

It’s a shame we never got to see Wright’s vision of Ant-Man, that movie would have been great! Not letting Wright make his film was one of Kevin Feige’s first big mistakes at Marvel.