Ant-Man: Five Directors Who Could Replace Edgar Wright

The loss of Edgar Wright is a big one for Marvel’s Ant-Man adaptation.Besides being a director with a clear vision and a vocal fan base of his own, Wright has the distinction of being one of the only filmmakers Marvel has worked with to date who was intimately tied to the film’s development in such a way that it’s difficult to guess just how much or how little of the existing script will be used without him (compare this to directors-for-hire like Patty Jenkins whose departure did not, as far as anyone can tell, materially impact Thor: The Dark World‘s script).The House of Cinematic Ideas so far, though, says that they’re committed to meeting the film’s projected release date late next year and that a new director will be announced shortly. That suggests, more likely than not, that the studio saw the writing on the wall and have put some thought into who might make such a film.And while we don’t know how much of his original concept will stick around and we previously noted how difficult a story like this would be, it seemed like a fun, worthwhile lark to toy with what directors could  sub in.Bear in mind that, in all likelihood, Marvel is going to go in a completely different direction but, for the sake of argument, we’re going with some filmmakers whose sensibilities aren’t that far off from Wright’s in a lot of ways because it makes apples to apples comparisons a bit easier. As such, just like with all of our speculative or “This is how I’d do it…” stories, take this as entertainment.