Before "Iron Man" achieved box office success, Edgar Wright wrote a screenplay for the Marvel comics character "Ant-Man". At Comic-Con in 2011, Edgar Wright said that he and his old partner screenwriter Joe Cornish completed the final script of the "Ant-Man" movie. In mid-to-late August 2013, Edgar Wright stated that Ultron, the core villain of "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", will not appear in the "Ant-Man" movie. The deletion from Ant-Man is to make the plot more concise and focus more on Ant-Man.
On June 8, 2014, Marvel confirmed that Adam McKay, director of "Ace Announcer", would assist in the creation of the script. On July 8, 2014, "Ant-Man" decided to invite the two screenwriters Gabriel Ferrari and Andrew Barrell to join the latest addition. The film crew hopes that they will make the final changes to the script. In mid-October 2014, screenwriter Adam McKay talked about how he and actor Paul Rudd had revised the script together in an interview, and revealed that he had added many new action scenes. However, some of Edgar Wright’s scripts will still be retained.
