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I see some of the usual "chicken littles" here in the movie forum are running amuck again. It's nice to know some things never change!
jye4ever
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https://badassdigest.com/2014/05/31/adam-mckay-is-directing-ant-man/
Published May 31, 2014 by Devin Faraci
Adam McKay Is Directing ANT-MAN
The saga concludes.
A week ago Edgar Wright left Ant-Man. The interent reacted. Last night people started hearing that the director hunt was over. Today a shortlist was announced. Tonight Adam McKay is on the cusp of signing the deal.
I already told you why McKay is a good choice. His hiring is very much to appease Paul Rudd, who is left high and dry with Wright leaving and the script being changed. I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel would have liked to have Rawson Thurber, a shooter, take over, but making Rudd happy had to come first. Thurber was definitely way up there, but it's unclear if his front-runner status was being fed to the press just to pressure McKay to sign the deal. Yes, this is actually how it happens.
So now McKay. The movie shoots in maybe six to eight weeks. I don't know how much pre-production or script work he can get done in that time. It's possible that he'll just inherit a lot of Wright's action scenes - the script has inherited many of Wright's beats and larger structure, after all - or that they'll farm the action out to the usual band of previz artists who basically direct every single big action movie these days. McKay, I would guess, is there to work with the actors and find the right comedic tone. This is his most hired-gun job ever.
Will it all turn out for the best? This is certainly the best-case scenario out of the three options we knew about. I don't know what sort of larger message this sends about Marvel Phase Three - they traded in the visual stylist for the guy with the strong comic voice. They're leaning heavier on comedy than I expected, and knowing the schlocky direction they wanted the comedy in Ant-Man to go, they're leaning on a better comedic talent than I expected.
Published May 31, 2014 by Devin Faraci
Adam McKay Is Directing ANT-MAN
The saga concludes.
A week ago Edgar Wright left Ant-Man. The interent reacted. Last night people started hearing that the director hunt was over. Today a shortlist was announced. Tonight Adam McKay is on the cusp of signing the deal.
I already told you why McKay is a good choice. His hiring is very much to appease Paul Rudd, who is left high and dry with Wright leaving and the script being changed. I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel would have liked to have Rawson Thurber, a shooter, take over, but making Rudd happy had to come first. Thurber was definitely way up there, but it's unclear if his front-runner status was being fed to the press just to pressure McKay to sign the deal. Yes, this is actually how it happens.
So now McKay. The movie shoots in maybe six to eight weeks. I don't know how much pre-production or script work he can get done in that time. It's possible that he'll just inherit a lot of Wright's action scenes - the script has inherited many of Wright's beats and larger structure, after all - or that they'll farm the action out to the usual band of previz artists who basically direct every single big action movie these days. McKay, I would guess, is there to work with the actors and find the right comedic tone. This is his most hired-gun job ever.
Will it all turn out for the best? This is certainly the best-case scenario out of the three options we knew about. I don't know what sort of larger message this sends about Marvel Phase Three - they traded in the visual stylist for the guy with the strong comic voice. They're leaning heavier on comedy than I expected, and knowing the schlocky direction they wanted the comedy in Ant-Man to go, they're leaning on a better comedic talent than I expected.
Thats an interesting choice, but I don't think its horrible. I agree with an earlier statement that until Marvel screws the pooch royally, I will trust them in what they make and what they do.
Less odd and quirky, but a full blown comedic director. I'm interested in seeing how it pans out. I've enjoyed some of his films, and largely the ones I didn't enjoy (like Anchorman 2) suffered due to writing, but I'm curious to see his ability to do action.
--edit: I see he did the Other Guys, which had some comedic action in it. Seems like I thought it was decent enough when I watched it.
--edit: I see he did the Other Guys, which had some comedic action in it. Seems like I thought it was decent enough when I watched it.
I loved the first Anchorman and The Other Guys. Very interesting news!
jye4ever
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Adam Mckay is now out.
https://badassdigest.com/2014/05/31/adam-mckay-is-not-directing-ant-man/
Adam McKay Is NOT Directing ANT-MAN
Whoa, this is unexpected.
Adam McKay pulled out of negotiations to direct Ant-Man this morning - basically at the last minute. As of last night it looked like it was a done deal that McKay would take over the project from Edgar Wright, but after sleeping on it, it appears he's had other thoughts.
Which I guess means we're left with Ruben Fleischer and Rawson Thurber, who is still the guy who I think gets the job. Unless he's like, '**** the job, you guys strung me along and also this project seems like it's doomed,' but he made We're the Millers so he'll probably direct anything.
This is such a tortured turn of events. These sorts of things aren't all that uncommon when a movie is starting out, but it's the countdown clock attached to the project - Marvel still wants to make their July 2015 release date - that is making all of this dramatic.
Maybe it's just time to let the dream of Ant-Man slip away. Rather than get a shooter in there to make an absolutely middling film (with a good cast and strong action beats) just let the project go. I've been wondering if Marvel wasn't trying to kill Ant-Man all along - this turn of events surely must make them kind of want to do that.
https://badassdigest.com/2014/05/31/adam-mckay-is-not-directing-ant-man/
Adam McKay Is NOT Directing ANT-MAN
Whoa, this is unexpected.
Adam McKay pulled out of negotiations to direct Ant-Man this morning - basically at the last minute. As of last night it looked like it was a done deal that McKay would take over the project from Edgar Wright, but after sleeping on it, it appears he's had other thoughts.
Which I guess means we're left with Ruben Fleischer and Rawson Thurber, who is still the guy who I think gets the job. Unless he's like, '**** the job, you guys strung me along and also this project seems like it's doomed,' but he made We're the Millers so he'll probably direct anything.
This is such a tortured turn of events. These sorts of things aren't all that uncommon when a movie is starting out, but it's the countdown clock attached to the project - Marvel still wants to make their July 2015 release date - that is making all of this dramatic.
Maybe it's just time to let the dream of Ant-Man slip away. Rather than get a shooter in there to make an absolutely middling film (with a good cast and strong action beats) just let the project go. I've been wondering if Marvel wasn't trying to kill Ant-Man all along - this turn of events surely must make them kind of want to do that.
That's okay. Marvel's got a good system of figuring out who will ultimately direct this movie.
jye4ever
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That's okay. Marvel's got a good system of figuring out who will ultimately direct this movie.
That's okay. Marvel's got a good system of figuring out who will ultimately direct this movie.
I hope the hipster stoner gets it!
DFanatic
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Meh, give it to Ruben Fleischer.
Eeeeeh, not great when two guys walk in the span of a week or so. Unfortunately, once the wheels on the machine start turning, it's hard to slow it down. One way or the other, I'm guessing this movie will be released when it is planned to.
jye4ever
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Published June 03, 2014 by Devin Faraci
Report: Rawson Thurber Squashes ANT-MAN Involvement
Another one bites the dust?
A report at This Is Infamous claims that Rawson Thurber has officially passed on directing Ant-Man. With Adam McKay having apparently also passed this leaves one guy on the shortlist: Ruben Fleischer, who has been mentioned as a choice for Ghostbusters 3, a job he's far more likely to take.
There's a boilerplate thing we all say in these cases, which is 'the story behind the movie is more dramatic than the movie itself!' but in this case not only is it true, I'm dying for the full story to be told because I've heard so many conflicting things in the last week. The stuff I've heard - from very, very good sources - runs the gamut from 'Marvel got Machiavellian with how they approached this' to 'Marvel got caught totally flatfooted by this whole thing,' which are pretty much the exact opposite ends of the spectrum.
I've said this since the day that Edgar Wright left the project - let it go. This is one hundred percent an execution-dependent project, and at this point everybody's having their time wasted as Marvel stumbles forward towards a start date on a movie that no longer has any valid artistic reason to exist. I don't even think an Ant-Man movie, devoid of a singular vision, has a commercial reason to exist. If Marvel is going through the five stages of grief (and stage one, denial, was when they thought they could hand Edgar Wright a script some dude rewrote) they're in the middle of bargaining, and I think they need to just blaze through depression and get right to acceptance.
Hey, maybe Ant-Man will still get made and will be great. There are amazing movies with terrible production histories - The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind have like six directors between them (although Victor Fleming gets final credit on both) - but that's rare. If the movie gets made I'm rooting for it to be good, because I'm going to end up owning the goddamn thing in the Phase Three Blu-ray set no
Report: Rawson Thurber Squashes ANT-MAN Involvement
Another one bites the dust?
A report at This Is Infamous claims that Rawson Thurber has officially passed on directing Ant-Man. With Adam McKay having apparently also passed this leaves one guy on the shortlist: Ruben Fleischer, who has been mentioned as a choice for Ghostbusters 3, a job he's far more likely to take.
There's a boilerplate thing we all say in these cases, which is 'the story behind the movie is more dramatic than the movie itself!' but in this case not only is it true, I'm dying for the full story to be told because I've heard so many conflicting things in the last week. The stuff I've heard - from very, very good sources - runs the gamut from 'Marvel got Machiavellian with how they approached this' to 'Marvel got caught totally flatfooted by this whole thing,' which are pretty much the exact opposite ends of the spectrum.
I've said this since the day that Edgar Wright left the project - let it go. This is one hundred percent an execution-dependent project, and at this point everybody's having their time wasted as Marvel stumbles forward towards a start date on a movie that no longer has any valid artistic reason to exist. I don't even think an Ant-Man movie, devoid of a singular vision, has a commercial reason to exist. If Marvel is going through the five stages of grief (and stage one, denial, was when they thought they could hand Edgar Wright a script some dude rewrote) they're in the middle of bargaining, and I think they need to just blaze through depression and get right to acceptance.
Hey, maybe Ant-Man will still get made and will be great. There are amazing movies with terrible production histories - The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind have like six directors between them (although Victor Fleming gets final credit on both) - but that's rare. If the movie gets made I'm rooting for it to be good, because I'm going to end up owning the goddamn thing in the Phase Three Blu-ray set no
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Oh Man, this is getting funny at this point. Why are these directors bailing?
I know, but I'll never tell.
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I supposee since it was written planed out in a certain way that it would be difficult to come in and take over and these directors want to shoot it in their own style.
But I am sure they will find somebody. Why they let Edger Wright do it in the first place is what does not make sense. His style of movies was never in line with what marvel had previously produced or what it will be producing should have found some else along time ago.
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If someone does not think Edgar Wright is Marvel director "type" I'd like to see what your criteria is for Marvel director "type".
Cause there's only one thing they've all had in common and Edgar was certainly the man Feige wanted.
Cause there's only one thing they've all had in common and Edgar was certainly the man Feige wanted.
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