Edgar Wright Says His Ant-Man Script Is An Origin Story, Wouldn’t Fit With The Avengers
At the end of the Marvel panel at this year’s Comic Con, Marvel President of Production Kevin Feige had managed to get Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Clark Gregg all on stage to represent the cast of The Avengers, the huge ensemble movie that will finally unite all of Marvel’s solo outings. But while that list contains all of the major players in the film, one hero conspicuously absent was Ant-Man, one of the original members of the series when it began in 1963. Why not include a hero that is such a key component to the team? Apparently Edgar Wright’s script has a lot to do with that.
According to the director, a major part of the script, which has been completed for some time now, is the characters origin story, something they didn’t want to skip by simply planting him in the Whedon supergroup film.
So I snuck onto the set of Transformers 3 (56 HQ photos)
See the 56 images here.
Justin Timberlake is the Lead in “I’m Mortal” Sci-Fi Movie
Deadline is now reporting that Timberlake has been offered the lead in “I’m Mortal” sci-fi film.
Plot: In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as “time keepers.”
The new movie is written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) and co-stars Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia).
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Marvel Planning to Reboot The Punisher… Again?
Is The Punisher about to become the first superhero to be rebooted three times in less than a decade? I guess technically the Hulk has also been rebooted three times now with the confirmation of Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk in The Avengers. However, it still remains to be seen if there will be another Hulk movie with Ruffalo in the lead role. As for Frank Castle, news came out this week that Marvel has recently regained the rights to the character, and they do plan to do something with him… they’re just not saying what it is yet.
During a Marvel Entertainment panel at the San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, Marvel’s head of production Kevin Feige confirmed the following: “Frank Castle is under the roof of Marvel Studios… and we hope to bring him into the fray shortly.” Lionsgate previously held the rights, but after the failure of the last movie Punisher: War Zone they apparently decided to let the property go. Could this mean there is a new movie in development?
I liked The Punisher. Why must they reboot all these movies? Can’t they come up with any new ideas? I also loved Edward Norton as The Hulk. I’m disappointed in the way they treated him.
Are you liking all the “reboots”?
