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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jun 5, 2014 7:18:36 GMT -6
www.bleedingcool.com/2014/06/04/marvels-ant-man-contenders-now-include-michael-dowse-and-nicholas-stoller-allegedly/Deadline say Marvel are looking to Nicholas Stoller to possibly direct Ant-Man. Meanwhile, Collider say Stoller is definitely not in the running. That’s the kind of position we find ourselves in with this film right now. Rumour tennis. At the same time, Deadline have said that Michael Dowse, director of Goon and What If, as well as It’s All Gone Pete Tong and the Fubar films, is another contender. So far, nobody appears to have refuted that particular claim. I’m assuming Collider’s Steve Weintraub e-mailed Stoller directly for some clarification, and Stoller said something that made it seem like he’s not involved in any way. The report is a lot more vague about what went on, but that seems like a viable narrative to me. What a load of soapy mess. There’s real stigma attached to taking on this film, it would seem. I reckon it might be enough to make Patty Jenkins feel quite unloved. Why didn’t Thor 2 get the same sort of curse on it when Marvel removed her from that one? Or maybe it did, and Alan Taylor just didn’t give a you know what.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jun 7, 2014 8:08:53 GMT -6
www.bleedingcool.com/2014/06/06/marvel-looking-at-tom-hardy-and-benedict-cumberbatch-for-doctor-strange-peyton-reed-and-david-wain-for-ant-man/Earlier today, I was tipped off that Marvel would like to speak to Benedict Cumberbatch about Doctor Strange. I’ve been firing off e-mails and calls trying to find out how real this is. Apparently it’s a little bit real, as Deadline are now saying that Cumberbatch, alongside the absurdly over-booked Tom Hardy, are on Marvel’s casting wish list for the film. An ‘early casting wish list’ is almost a perverse thing to report, but anyway. There seems to be a rule that every day must bring two new Marvel stories, and this is only Deadline carving one out for themselves. Meanwhile, The Wrap were the first to link Peyton Reed with Ant-Man. If his vision meshes with Marvel’s, then this could be, for the first time in a long time, a step in the right direction for this film. Reed certainly has skills, both with set-pieces and comedy. David Wain, who has a good working relationship with Paul Rudd, is also a contender, as per The Hollywood Reporter, but I can’t see that panning out at all. With no offence meant to Edgar Wright or Joe Cornish, I’d have been excited about a Peyton Reed take on Ant-Man if that’s what we’d have been offered in the first place. With no offence meant to Peyton Reed, it’s always going to be hard to forget that Marvel butted heads with an iconoclast over this film and steered the project away from a director’s personal vision to something more… studio serving, whatever that might ultimately mean. As an idealist, that does chafe quite a bit. Of course, there’s a lot of pragmatism in the iron in my blood, and I’m thinking that Kevin Feige and Wright must have been on a collision course and it’s likely better that they parted ways already rather than with messy editing room lockouts, extensive reshoots or mid-production firings. Ant-Man might yet be the greatest film ever made and Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish’s screenplay might well have been a complete nightmare. ‘We’ don’t know, really, from our vantage point. Hard to imagine, sure, but… well, I hope the script does leak. And soon, just to start shading in the context of this whole shooting match.
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