Edgar Wright talks about his upcoming film project, Ant Man, with Empire Magazine:
“It’s written and we’re doing a second draft of it,” said Wright. “It’s going to be less overtly comedic than anything else I’ve ever done. It’s more of a full-on action adventure sci-fi film but with a comedic element – in the same spirit of a lot of escapist fare like that. It’s certainly not a superhero spoof or pastiche and it certainly isn’t a sort of Honey I Shrunk The Kids endeavour at all.”
He’s not got anybody in mind to play comicdom’s tiniest hero just yet, so the big question at the moment is what incarnation will the hero take – the goody-two-shoes scientist Hank Pym originated by comic legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby or Ant Man mark-II, the more roguish Scott Lang?
“Ah well, it could be Scott Lang, it could be Hank Pym, it could be both – okay it is both, now there’s an exclusive for you.”
Ant Men, I guess?
–Lebanon has banned Persepolis, the animated adaptation Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel. “They want to stay on the safe side and not create any more friction,” said Gianluca Chacra, topper at United Arab Emirates-based distrib Front Row Entertainment, which is handling the pic’s Mideast release. “We’re still hoping for a DVD release in Lebanon.”
–The new Incredible Hulk trailer debuts tomorrow on MTV and several associated TV stations around 9:56 p.m. Eastern. Until then, enjoy this pic of William Hurt as General Ross.
–Warner Bros. is launching a new web site so they can stream old WB shows like Gilmore Girls. No doubt Smallville will one day have a home there.
–Looks like we won’t have to wait until 2009 to see Jack Bauer back in action, as this fall FOX will show a two-hour movie that “bridges the gap” between last season and the next.
–I thought this short about a boy, a girl, a break-up and a Lost DVD was pretty funny.
