In a Q&A with Vanity Fair, Edgar Wright revealed his plans for his next film Ant-Man. Wright went on to say that it would be “essentially a high-tech spy heist film with somebody with a very particular power.” Wright added that while “shrinking man films generally get a bad rap, Ant-Man will twist the genre a little bit”. “I know there’s a big stigma attached to it, mostly because every movie about shrinking has been about people in peril. I think it’d be great to do a shrinking film about a bad-ass secret agent.” “It’s true that the character is not considered one of the Marvel brand leaders and that is precisely what excites me about it. I want to make a film inside the Marvel universe that is something a little different; a genre film within the superhero genre so to speak.”
Earlier this year Edgar Wright told MTV News, “Because that character isn’t one of their biggest properties, it’s not like a tentpole deadline. It’s more like me and Kevin Feige saying, ‘Let’s make a really good script.’ We’ve always agreed on that — ‘Lets make a good script that works, that’s all about a great genre film, and that isn’t necessarily relying on anything else.
It was rumored that Nathan Fillion and Eva Longoria were up for the roles of Ant-Man and Wasp. At the San Diego Comic Con in 2010, Wright confirmed that his script is a origin story, and that doesn’t work for Marvel’s chronology to include Ant-Man in The Avengers.