The Avengers 2 2015: Edgar Wright Reveals Why Ultron Not Appearing in 'Ant-Man' Movie

Ultron may have direct ties to Dr. Hank Pym, aka Ant-Man, in the Marvel comics, but the Avengers 2 villain will not appear in Edgar Wright's Ant-Man film.

The second superhero team-up is subtitled Age of Ultron as the machine will serve as the main antagonist. But Wright said in an interview with The Huffington Post that Ultron does not have a place in Ant-Man:

"Ultron is going to be the villain in the next Avengers movie, which is coming out before Ant-Man. In the comics, Ant-Man invented Ultron. Ant-Man is a strange enough character on his own for a movie, would it have just too much to say, 'Here's Ant-Man and, by the way, he also invented this robot named Ultron'? Would that have been too much for the first Ant-Man movie?

It was never in my script. Because even just to sort of set up what Ant-Man does is enough for one movie. It's why I think Iron Man is extremely successful because it keeps it really simple. You have one sort of, the villain comes from the hero's technology. It's simple. So I think why that film really works and why, sometimes, superhero films fail, or they have mixed results, because they have to set up a hero and a villain at the same time. And that's really tough. And sometimes it's unbalanced.

You know, when I was younger I used to love Tim Burton's Batman. I was like 15 and even then I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him. Comics have years to explain this stuff and in a movie you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus. You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible."

Ant-Man is scheduled for release on Nov. 6, 2015.