Check Out This List Of Five Possible Directors Who Can Replace Edgar Wright For Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man!’

Besides X-Men: Days of Future Past making a killing at the box office, comic book fans were left in a lurch when Shaun of the Dead director, Edgar Wright, removed himself from Ant-Man. Now Marvel is in recovery mode, trying to find the right person to make their next superhero movie.

As reported here, Wright has left the Ant-Man project, leaving an empty spot in the director's chair. Because scheduling is tight, Marvel has little time to fill in that void. The studio needs a filmmaker who can balance comedy, drama, and has a vision for special effects.

Check out this list of possible, maybe even better, directors than Wright who could takeover:

5) Nicholas Stoller

Because Paul Rudd is playing the lead role of Dr. Hank Pym, you need someone who has worked with the comedic actor before. Rudd was on the spot with his comedic timing in Stoller's Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Stoller already has another comedy hit on his hands with Neighbors.

4) Brett Ratner

This may seem like an odd choice at first. X-Men: The Last Stand is the weakest one in the series but the action was top-notch. You really do need an action director, someone like Ratner, at the helm of a summer blockbuster flick. Plus, the Rush Hour movies are still funny as hell.

3) Shane Black

Black practically pioneered the buddy cop genre with his Lethal Weapon movies. The Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director knows how to balance laugh-out-loud humor and action, which is why Iron Man 3 worked so well in that department. [Spoilers] He may not be the perfect choice because fans are still mad that Guy Pearce turned out to be the Mandarin.

2) Matthew Vaughn

Besides Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past being the best entry in the franchise, the runner-up would have to be Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. This guy knows comics and fans should take notice with his adaptation of Mark Miller's Kick-Ass. With Michael Douglas in the cast of Ant-Man, I would like to see Vaughn direct another actor of Academy award-winning caliber, like Nicholas Cage.

 1) Joe Cornish

Cornish is already writing the script for Ant-Man, so why shouldn't he get the directing gig? If you've seen Attack the Block, then you know this indie director can make something huge out of a small budget. Lightning struck once when Evil Dead's Sam Raimi took over Spider-Man, so why wouldn't this work again?

Here are my top five choices of filmmakers who should helm the next Marvel superhero movie. Readers, who would you want as the director of Ant-Man?