Edgar Wright: Ant-Man wouldn't work

Edgar Wright has claimed responsibility for the absence of Ant-Man from the Avengers movie.

Director Joss Whedon indicated at Comic-Con International that the character would not appear as a part of the cast for his forthcoming ensemble film.

Scott Pilgrim director Wright - who is working on a script for an Ant-Man film - indicated to Cinema Blend that he asked for the character not to be included.

"I talked to [Marvel Studios President] Kevin Feige about that a while back where we just discussed about whether [Ant-Man] would be in The Avengers." said Wright

"The thing is, the script that I’ve written, whether it’s next or not I don’t know, the chronology of it or the way it works wouldn’t really fit in with what they do. And my film is very much an introduction to that character, and so it wasn’t something where it felt right to introduce him in that film.

"Maybe if I do the solo Ant-Man film and maybe there’s a later Avengers then they could draft him in later. But it didn’t work with the kind of angle that we were going to do with the origin that I’d written."

Wright is reportedly working on a second draft of the Ant-Man script following the completion of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.