Joss Whedon Supports Edgar Wright's Departure From Marvel Ant-Man Movie
As Marvel fans may have heard earlier this weekend, director Edgar Wright has left the Ant-Man movie starring Paul Rudd and scheduled for release in 2015. Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind The Avengers and its sequel Age of Ultron has now come out to support Wright.
Whedon posted the following photo on Twitter in which he holds a Cornetto ice cream bar in the air (Wright worked on The Cornetto Trilogy) and bows his head. The pose recreates that of the civil rights protest of the 1968 Olympics.
— Joss Whedon (@josswhedon) May 24, 2014
In related news, Latino Review's resident scoop master, El Mayimbe, did some digging into Wright's departure and came up with the following information:
"The prep on this film has been forever and it was impossible to be behind schedule because the entire production was out on hiatus by Marvel for duration of the script's rewrite. Families left homes to work on the movie in Atlanta and were now suddenly in limbo. So about the rewrite... About 3 months ago, Marvel had notes. The meat of the notes were about the core morality of the piece, must include franchise characters. etc., These notes came from the big four at Marvel. Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright did two drafts to try and answer the notes without compromising their vision. 6 weeks ago Marvel took the script off them and gave the writing assignment to two very low credit writers. One of the writers were from Marvel's in house writing team. Edgar stayed cool, agreed to stay on the project, and read the draft. The script came in this week and was completely undone. Poorer, homogenized, and not Edgar's vision. Edgar met with Marvel on Friday to formally exit and the announcement went out directly after. Edgar & Joe were upset by the sudden, out of nowhere lack of faith in them as filmmakers. Fiege had always batted for them but this felt like it came from the higher ups. Where does this leave the cast? Well, it is believed they don't have the option to walk like Edgar did."
What do you make of Whedon's tweet and Latino Review's scoop? Are you with Wright or Marvel? Who do you think should replace the director? Let us know in the comments below.