Joss Whedon calls Edgar Wright's 'Ant-Man' screenplay 'the best script Marvel ever had'

Joss Whedon is wildly considered among the best writers working in Hollywood, so when he compliments a fellow screenwriter, one listens. In an interview for his upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron, he revealed Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish's unused Ant-Man screenplay was "the best script that Marvel had ever had."

The full quote, which comes from Buzzfeed, can be found below.

“I thought the script was not only the best script that Marvel had ever had, but the most Marvel script I’d read," Whedon said. "I had no interest in Ant-Man. [Then] I read the script, and was like, 'Of course! This is so good!' It reminded me of the books when I read them. Irreverent and funny and could make what was small large, and vice versa. I don’t know where things went wrong. But I was very sad. Because I thought, 'This is a no-brainer. This is Marvel getting it exactly right.' Whatever dissonance that came, whatever it was, I don’t understand why it was bigger than a marriage that seemed so right."

Whedon also continued his Ant-Man comments by noting, "I'm not going to say it was definitely all Marvel, or Edgar's gone mad! I felt like they would complement each other by the ways that they were different. And, uh, somethin' happened."

This isn't the first time Whedon stood by his friend. When Wright first departed the superhero movie, Whedon tweeted a picture of himself with a Cornetto ice-cream cone in hand, a sign of solidarity for the filmmaker best known for his "Cornetto Trilogy," a.k.a. Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End. James Gunn, the writer/director behind another Marvel feature Guardians of the Galaxy, also supported Wright on his Facebook.

With Whedon's contract up with Marvel at the end of the year, it appears the Avengers filmmaker soon will be off the superhero studio's chain for the moment, just like Wright. While it's still early for Wright as far as what he wants to do, Wright already lined up his next project. The crime action-comedy Baby Driver is up next, to star Ansel Elgort, and he is also attached to Grasshopper Jungle and The Night Stalker, starring Johnny Depp.

Avengers: Age of Ultron comes to theaters on May 1.

Image courtesy of Jennifer Graylock/INFphoto.com

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