How the hell did I miss this?

[angelophile]

Okay, I knew that there was an Ant Man movie in the works.

What I didn't know was that it's being written/directed by Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead/Spaced fame.

What I doubly didn't know is that it's being written by Joe Cornish. Yeah, Joe Cornish of Adam and Joe fame. Who were doing what Robot Chicken does a decade or so before Robot Chicken was invented. And they had a baaaad dad.

Apparently:

"Edgar Wright plans to direct an action-adventure film with comedic elements, insisting that Ant-Man would not be a spoof. The script has been written by Wright and Joe Cornish, who plan to include Henry Pym, Scott Lang, and Eric O'grady as major characters, with Pym as Ant-Man in the 60's in Tales to Astonish style, and a flashforward to Lang as Ant-Man's successor in the 80's/90's, and then finally to the deviant yet lovable Eric O'Grady of contemporary times.

In February, Wright said that the project was in "a holding pattern" while the script was revised, with casting yet to begin. The director reported that he would have news for the film in a few months. He has been researching nanotechnology for the film. As of March 2008, Wright told Empire magazine that a second draft of the script is being written."

I... want.

And to celebrate, some classic Adam and Joe meets Star Wars stuff.