{"id":35807,"date":"2015-04-21T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35807"},"modified":"2015-04-21T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:08:23","slug":"joss-whedon-states-edgar-wrights-ant-man-script-was-best-that-marvel-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/joss-whedon-states-edgar-wrights-ant-man-script-was-best-that-marvel-had\/","title":{"rendered":"Joss Whedon States Edgar Wright’s ANT-MAN Script Was “Best That Marvel Had”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re still smarting from writer\/director Edgar Wright’s sudden departure from Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man<\/strong> after he spent years developing the project for them, this is not going to sooth the hurt.<\/p>\n

Joss Whedon, who as director of 2012’s The Avengers<\/strong> and next month’s sequel The Avengers: Age Of Ultron<\/strong> has basically had a hand in all of the films that Marvel had been developing between the two, has praised the screenplay that Wright had written with co-writer Joe Cornish, saying that it was the best screenplay that the studio ever had in its hands.<\/p>\n

The admission came as part of his answer in an interview with BuzzFeed<\/a> as to what lead to Wright’s departure from the film.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get it. I thought the script was not only the best script that Marvel had ever had, but the most Marvel script I\u2019d read. I had no interest in Ant-Man. [Then] I read the script, and was like, Of course! This is so good! It reminded me of the books when I read them. Irreverent and funny and could make what was small large, and vice versa. I don\u2019t know where things went wrong. But I was very sad. Because I thought, This is a no-brainer. This is Marvel getting it exactly right. Whatever dissonance that came, whatever it was, I don\u2019t understand why it was bigger than a marriage that seemed so right. But I\u2019m not going to say it was definitely all Marvel, or Edgar\u2019s gone mad! I felt like they would complement each other by the ways that they were different. And, uh, somethin\u2019 happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s some effusive praise from Whedon and you can hear the regret that Wright’s version didn’t get made from his own fanboy heart. And I can’t say that I blame him. As a fan of Wright’s work, one who loves both the visual energy he brings to his films as well as his smart and layered approach to his storytelling, I can only imagine what his script read like. I suppose that is until it invariable gets leaked out.<\/p>\n

Wright’s departure<\/a> from Ant-Man<\/strong> came as a surprise in March 2014, as the director had been working on the project for Marvel since 2006. Working with writer Joe Cornish, Wright had turned in several drafts<\/a> of the screenplay and shot some test footage<\/a> showcasing the heroe’s shrinking powers before the studio gave the greenlight to the project.<\/p>\n

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The AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON director has big praise for the script that Wright refused to compromise.<\/div>\n

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