Another Marvel project that Edgar Wright was approached to work on besides Ant-Man was Fox’x Gambit film, as the filmmaker reveals why he declined the offer.
In a new interview with /Film, Simon Kinberg revealed that he had approached Wright to work on an X-Men movie, stating that “He’s one of my favorite directors of all time and one of my favorite people, just a super great guy. Obviously a cinephile… I’ve chased Edgar for ‘X-Men’ movies. I’ve chased him for literally every possible thing. We have talked about every movie.” The outlet followed up with Wright where he revealed that it was actually for the Gambit project, as he explained why he didn’t want to do it:
Gambit wasn’t a character I knew too well. He appeared after my time reading Marvels — roughly 1985 — 1990 or so. [He] wasn’t one that I knew a lot about and hadn’t really read growing up, so it felt like it was someone else’s dream gig. Maybe he means more to people who watched the [animated] show? Which again, was after my time.
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