Splash Page catches up with director Edgar Wright to suss out rumors of Pixar-related interest in his ANT-MAN movie.:
“The news that Pixar is involved [with ‘Ant-Man’] is not wholly accurate and a little premature to comment on,” Wright said. “I love Pixar’s work more than anyone and indeed would love to collaborate with them.
“I’m not sure though that they would want to do a ‘shrinking’ film as a Pixar animation—since ‘Toy Story’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’ already cover this territory to some extent,” he continued. “My spin on ‘Ant-Man’ is very different than a straight superhero origin—and very much live action.”
Regardless of Pixar’s attachment or lack thereof, Wright said that he certainly plans to get back into the swing of things with “Ant-Man” as soon as time allows.
Hm, could this have been someone remarking in passing, “Ant-Man? Neat!”
At any rate, Wright, currently wrapping post on SCOTT PILGRIM, is still interested in a light-hearted live-action take on the tiny little superhero and is talking to Kevin Feige about it next week.
Not wrapping post — he just had his week off between production and post-production, which is only about to begin. Eight months of it.
A Pixar Ant-Man movie makes soooo much sense it makes my head spin! But what do I know? I just do little Beans!
I love Pixar and everything they’ve done (well, Cars was pretty bleh) and I think a Pixar Ant-Man movie would be great, but I would eat Dracula’s coffin filled with scorpions if Edgar Wright made his Ant-Man movie. Ever since he annouced he was working on an Ant-Man movie I’d already made up my mind that Wright’s Ant-Man would be movie of the century.
Edgar Wright doing Ant-Man? Well, the character does have a bit of red on him… So, when does the rumor of Pegg playing Pym (right?) start?