{"id":570734,"date":"2025-11-14T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/570734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:22:12","slug":"the-running-man-director-edgar-wright-repeatedly-declined-to-direct-movies-for-this-marvel-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/570734\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RUNNING MAN Director Edgar Wright Repeatedly Declined To Direct Movies For This Marvel Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had things panned out differently, Edgar Wright would have helmed Ant-Man for Marvel Studios. Ultimately, creative decisions got in the way<\/strong><\/a>, but it’s not the only Marvel franchise to have crossed the filmmaker’s desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking on the red carpet for The Running Man, veteran producer Simon Kinberg revealed that he repeatedly offered Wright the chance to helm an X-Men movie. As a reminder, Kinberg either wrote or produced every X-Men movie between 2006 and 2020, leading to him stepping behind the camera to helm Dark Phoenix.<\/p>\n

That was panned by critics and fans alike, something we can’t imagine being the case had Wright decided to say yes to Kinberg’s\u00a0offers to put his spin on the mutant team.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver helmer repeatedly turned the producer down.\u00a0“I\u2019ve been trying to make a movie with Edgar Wright for over 25 years,”<\/strong>\u00a0Kinberg said. “We met when we were young guys in Hollywood, just starting out together, and I\u2019ve been such a huge fan of his.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

He added, “I\u2019ve sent him things over the years, many, many [things], X-Men movies, all kinds of things, and he always said no.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things changed with The Running Man, but which X-Men movies did Wright say no to? X-Men: Days of Future Past, perhaps? How about The New Mutants or even Deadpool? Here’s hoping someone asks Wright down the line, though his new movie’s press tour has now ended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, some recent remarks from Wright about being offered “revisionist superhero” projects leads us to believe\u00a0it could be the Merc with the Mouth.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re not still losing sleep over that, are you?”\u00a0<\/strong>Wright recently joked when he was asked about Ant-Man.\u00a0“I didn\u2019t regret my decision to leave at all. I had started working on that film long before even ‘Iron Man’\u00a0came out.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“By the time it came around, they had established the brand, the continuity, and even a certain way of making a movie,”\u00a0<\/strong>he continued.\u00a0“So the chance to do something really different was going away.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wright hasn’t taken a crack at another superhero property since, and as of now, still has no intentions of doing so.\u00a0“Several years afterwards, I\u2019d get scripts saying, ‘This is a revisionist superhero movie!’ And I\u2019d think, aren\u2019t they all revisionist now? It would be more groundbreaking to make a straight-up one. So no, 12 years later, I\u2019m still on what I call a ‘cape break.'”<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can hear more from Kinberg on Wright’s X-Men near-miss in the player below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It all started right here<\/p>\n

Producer Simon Kinberg talks getting Edgar Wright involved with THE RUNNING MAN, in theaters TONIGHT pic.twitter.com\/vNsL6O1X1L<\/a><\/p>\n


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