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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/9-giant-sized-changes-marvel-made-to-ant-man-after-edgar-wright-left/
- Published: 2026-11-15T02:00:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T12:07:29+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/edgar-wright-ant-man-script-differences/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Wright left after creative disagreements with Marvel.
- The heist plot and mentor pairing survived.
- His version would have had less MCU crossover.

## Summary

Edgar Wright left Marvel’s Ant-Man in May 2014 after disagreements over the film’s direction and its growing links to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Wright had developed the project with Joe Cornish since the early 2000s and wanted a superhero film with a distinctive directorial style; he later said Marvel wanted to make a Marvel film, but not an Edgar Wright film.

Peyton Reed took over, and Paul Rudd rewrote the script with Adam McKay. The article says Wright and Cornish’s heist structure, the mentor relationship between Hank Pym and Scott Lang, and the climactic fight in a child’s bedroom remained. Among the changes described, Scott’s crew grew from three people to about 15 in Wright’s version, Luis had a smaller role, and Wright’s film was intended to have little or no MCU crossover, including no Falcon appearance.

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