Original Ant-Man director Edgar Wright explained why he doesn't plan to ever watch the film while recounting the time he (unintentionally) almost did.
Marvel Studios infamously hired Wright to co-write and direct Ant-Man in 2006, only for the filmmaker to step down over creative differences in May 2014, just three months before production began under the supervision of his replacement, Peyton Reed. "I decided not to watch [Ant-Man], so I would never have to tell people what I thought of it," said Wright, responding to a question as part of a Q&A on Reddit. "That said, once I was on a plane, and a guy next to me was watching it, and that was a bit awkward."
This isn't the first time Wright has mentioned said plane incident, either. "The closest I came to [watching Ant-Man] was that somebody sitting near me on a flight was watching it," said Wright in June 2017. "And when I saw that the person sitting next to me was going to watch the movie, I thought, 'Hmm, maybe I’m going to do some work on my laptop.'"
Following his departure from Ant-Man, Wright bounced back with the critical and commercial success of 2017's Baby Driver, an original action/comedy about a getaway driver who treats his tinnitus by constantly listening to music. Wright returns this month with Last Night in Soho, a horror/thriller that follows an aspiring fashion designer who finds herself transported back in time into the body of a 1960s nightclub singer. CBR's Reuben Baron has mostly good things to say about the movie in his review, writing, "Despite [its] weaknesses, however, Last Night in Soho still makes for some highly entertaining Halloween viewing."
As for Ant-Man, Reed's version of the film received a generally positive critical reception -- if also a less enthusiastic one than those for other Marvel Studios solo superhero movies -- on its way to becoming a box office hit in 2015. Reed subsequently came back to direct the sequel (2018's Ant-Man and the Wasp) and is currently in the midst of production on Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne's latest big screen adventure with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Last Night in Soho is now playing in theaters. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania arrives on July 28, 2023.
Source: Reddit
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