Two New Writers Hired For Marvel's Ant-Man Script
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- July 8, 2014
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)
You don’t need to fix what isn’t broken. Whatever Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish originally wrote for Ant-Man was probably fine, so just go back to that. Yes, I’m just daydreaming that Wright will come back to the project, and knock it out of the park but, sadly, it’ll remain just that — a dream.
The screenplay for Ant-Man has become a thing of legend by this point. Another two new writers have been attached as production writers, in the form of writing duo Gabriel Ferrari and Andrew Barrer. Bringing on two writers at this point in the game isn’t a surprise, but how did we get to this point?
Cornish and Wright worked on it for almost a decade before the film was greenlit by Marvel to kick off Phase: Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They were then asked to do a rewrite to bring it in line with the other Marvel movies, which sounds reasonable… then things took a turn for the worst.
We know that the screenplay was taken away from them and heavily rewritten by someone else which, if rumor is to be believed, was frequent Marvel One-Shot writer Eric Pearson. The reason for the rewrite is still unknown, so we again turn to the rumor mil,l which suggests that it wasn’t Marvel who commissioned the rewrite, but its parent company Disney for the sole purpose of product placement.
At this point Edgar Wright walked and Marvel was stuck with no director, an (apparently) terrible script and only a few months before production was set to start. There were a few names being thrown around about who would sit in the director’s chair with Adam McKay as the front runner early on, but he was already busy with other projects. Other directors who were approached also opted out until Marvel settled on Peyton Reed with McKay hired to fix the screenplay.
This brings us back to our new writing duo of Ferrari and Barrer as the production writers. What that means is that they’ll be on set during the production of Ant-Man, to make any revisions to the script, and McKay is just far too busy to take that job. Ferrari and Barrer wrote a script called Die in a Gunfight that hit the Black List in 2010, and the reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which is what apparently impressed Marvel to bring them aboard for Ant-Man.
Whether these last minute rewrites will save the film, and whether the script needed saving remains to be seen. In the end, as an audience member all I want is a good solid movie and Marvel is trying to make that happen. As a film lover, I’d love to get my hands on the Cornish/Wright script.
Ant-Man will premiere in theaters July 17th, 2015.
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