Ant-Man Film Site = www.antmanmovie.com - Comic Related, 2/18/08 [link] 
Director Edgar Wright shares an Ant-Man update: While chatting to Wright, we also asked about what he might be doing next. The obvious choice would be Ant Man, the adaptation of Marvel's comic book about a shrinking superhero who can communicate with insects. He's been attached to the comedy for some time. "It could be that. I finished the script and I'm having a meeting about it next week," he said. "But it depends which comes first in the queue basically. I've been working on two at once, and I'm also about to start developing two more scripts, one of which is with Simon [Pegg]. It could be Scott Pilgrim (another comic book adaptation who must slay a girl's evil exes in order to date her) is next or it could be Ant Man, we shall see." - Empire Movie News, 2/15/08 [link]
Director Edgar Wright on the tone of Ant-Man: "I don't want it to be a superhero spoof, because superhero spoofs and man-in-tights spoofs have absolutely been done to f##king death — after The Incredibles, which is sort of the last word on superhero parody. So it's going to be something different. It's going to be funny, but in a different way other than just, Hey, he's small! [laughs] When it was first pitched to me, somebody said, It's Honey, I Shrunk the Superhero. And I said, I would do everything except that film." Premiere.com, 8/1/07 [link]
Director Edgar Wright talks Ant-Man: "I said that I always was a Marvel Comics kid, and they said, "Are you interested in any of these titles?" The one that jumped out was "Ant-Man" because I had the John Byrne "Marvel Premiere" from 1979 that David Micheline had done with Scott Lang that was kind of an origin story. I always loved the artwork, so when I saw that, it just immediately set bells going off kind of thinking going "Huh, that could be interesting. " So we actually wrote a treatment for it, which was never sent to Marvel. It was like more our pitch on the thing. Ant-Man was basically doing a superhero film in invert commas, and it takes place in another genre, almost more in the crime-action genre, that just happens to involve an amazing suit with this piece of hardware. The thing I like about Ant-Man is that it's not like a secret power, there's no supernatural element or it's not a genetic thing. There's no gamma rays. It's just like the suit and the gas, so in that sense, it really appealed to me in terms that we could do something high-concept, really visual, cross-genre, sort of an action and special effects bonanza, but funny as well. There will definitely be a humorous element to it as well. So we wrote this treatment revolving around the Scott Lang character, who was a burglar, so he could have gone slightly in the Elmore Leonard route, and they came back saying, "Oh, we wanted to do something that was like a family thing." I don't think it ever got sent to Marvel. So then about two years ago I met Kevin Feige and Ari here and they said, "Are you interested in any Marvel titles?" and I said, "Weirdly enough, I did something for you," [At this point, writer Joe Cornish walks into the room with a camera, because he's also the official Hot Fuzz "blogographer."]…so we basically said, "Do you want to read the thing that we did three years ago?" So they read it and that's kind of the basis for what we're working on." SuperHeroHype, 7/26/06 [link]
