The much documented exit by writer/director Edgar Wright from Ant-Man left a giant hole in the Marvel Universe. When director Peyton Reed came on after he left, he was left without any of the people behind the camera that Wright had signed on, but Reed and Marvel head Kevin Feige says that they will keep some of the work Wright had already put into the film.

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Speaking with Total Film, Feige said that Ant-Man would keep the "same DNA" as the product that Wright had been working on for the past eight years.

"[Wright] wrote the draft with Joe Cornish, much of the movie will still be based very much on that draft and the DNA of what Edgar has created up to this point, but Peyton Reed has stepped in [to direct]," Feige said.

Since the departure by Wright and Cornish, there have been multiple screenwriters reworking the script, including Anchorman director Adam McKay. The finished product should have some of Wright's work inside of it, as he storyboarded most of the film before he left.

"Yeah. It wasn't the whole movie and there are new elements in the movie obviously, now, that [Wright] was not involved in. But there are some segments that are awesome and will be brought to life in some incarnation," Feige said.

"Peyton [Reed] certainly has all that material and is a talented enough and a secure enough guy to notice if something is really cool and go "No reason to change that, that's great." Or if he's got his own spin on something to go and adapt it from there."

Ant-Man is set to hit theaters on July 17, 2015 and stars Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, and Evangeline Lilly.

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