Ant-Man beat out everyone’s expectations for the films, so why not produce a Wasp standalone film?
[dropcap size=small]Y[/dropcap]ou would think that after the surprising amount of success that Ant-Man accomplished that Marvel and Disney would be one hundred percent on board for a Wasp standalone film. Unfortunately, according to Adam McKay, who wrote the script for Ant-Man, it appears neither of the two parties has approached him about the idea.
“I don’t know what my involvement’s going to be yet” Adam McKay explained. “I’ve been talking to Peyton Reed and to [Paul] Rudd, but you know Marvel has a process that they do so they may have other writers working on a script – the only thing I tell ‘em is ‘If you need me, I’m here.’ I love working on those – it’s really fun. It was also very fun just writing. And fortunately we had a great director in Peyton Reed so we wrote all this crazy stuff and then he did it really well. I was like ‘I could get used to this!’ It’s certainly a lot easier – I just showed up at the premiere and was like ‘Good job!'”
Adam McKay says there is a strong chance that a Wasp film in the future could happen. After all, Marvel and Disney made it abundantly clear that they would continue to produce Marvel movies as long fans keep enjoying the films and watch them.
“Possibly. I think it all depends on this sequel and how the character plays. Certainly there’s a lot of female superheroes in the Marvel universe so I’m sure you’re going to see them start to spread out. They sort of started with their kind of bedrock characters from the 60s and the 70s and I think you saw more of an explosion of female characters happening in the 80s and then the 90s. X-Men obviously has great female characters, but that’d be interesting, a Wasp movie. I don’t know, that’d be very interesting. I always think of the two of them as kind of together – they always were in the comics – but why not. Sure.”
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A second Ant-Man film is set to release in 2018.
