Apr 22, 2026 · 38 min · 14 segments
Shrinking is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Ant-Man, from the near decade of development with Edgar Wright, to the last minute overhaul by Peyton Reed and Paul Rudd. 📺 | Watch…
Edgar Wright's Ant-Man was there at the very beginning of Marvel Studios, but it took eight long years for him to finally make it.
And when he did, he found himself in a hornet's nest, as Marvel pushed him to shoot a script he didn't write and not in his signature style.
Spoiler alert, he quit, causing a last minute scramble for a new director and a complete rewrite.
here's the thing is I get very superstitious about like sort of talking about things before they're done because I don't want to be the boy who cried wolf yeah and you know talk about something if it doesn't you know I mean it will happen yeah but it's I feel very jinxy talking about
it right okay
Here's the deal.
Just give me the facts.
Just the facts.
Only
the facts.
Breathe.
Focus.
No, no, no.
No doubt.
No
And then there are the ones that have existed for decades, just crawling underneath the surface, loved by only a select few.
Edgar Wright's Ant-Man was there at the very beginning of Marvel Studios, but it took eight long years for him to finally make it.
And when he did, he found himself in a hornet's nest, as Marvel pushed him to shoot a script he didn't write and not in his signature style.
Spoiler alert, he quit, causing a last minute scramble for a new director and a complete rewrite.
here's the thing is I get very superstitious about like sort of talking about things before they're done because I don't want to be the boy who cried wolf yeah and you know talk about something if it doesn't you know I mean it will happen yeah but it's I feel very jinxy talking about
it right okay
Here's the deal.
Just give me the facts.
Just the facts.
Only
the facts.
Breathe.
Focus.
No, no, no.
No doubt.
No
And then there are the ones that have existed for decades, just crawling underneath the surface, loved by only a select few.
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