9 Giant-Sized Changes Marvel Made to Ant-Man After Edgar Wright Left

In May 2014, it was announced that Edgar Wright , best known for movies like Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , would no longer be directing Marvel ’s Ant-Man movie. The news was shocking because Wright was not just a director-for-hire like some Marvel filmmakers have been. Wright first began crafting his Ant-Man film with co-writer Joe Cornish in the early 2000s, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was even a thing. When the MCU began to develop, Wright’s Ant-Man was one of the earliest confirmed projects.