Marvel President Kevin Feige dished details about the behind-the-scenes changes for the upcoming "Ant-Man" movie.
IGN reports Feige claimed the production is in "good shape" with Peyton Reed taking on the project. Reed has been working on the script with multiple screenwriters to get the project ready for film production.
"Peyton is someone that I've been a fan of for a long time," Feige told IGN. "People may not remember, though probably your readers remember, that he was attached to Fantastic Four more than 10 years ago. We spent a lot of time together... and I got along with Peyton very, very well and he had awesome ideas and an awesome vision for the movie, and for various reasons he ended up leaving that movie."
Feige added Reed was always up for consideration to take on "Ant-Man." Shortly after director Edgar Wright's exit, Reed was Feige's first choice to take on the film, according to IGN.
However, Reed admitted to Feige didn't want to take on a "secondhand" project where he had no say in the direction of the film.
"It was not a slam-dunk that he would just step into it and do it," Feige told IGN. "He wanted to be sure that he was wasn't just inheriting something or following someone else's lead. Or wasn't inheriting something that the evil studio had watered down to be something bad.
"I kept saying, 'You can either read what's online, or come in and talk to us and look at all this stuff.' He looked at everything, he talked with us, and he said 'Number one, I agree with the direction you're going in. And number two, I can add to it.' And he has - the movie is in as good a shape as it's ever been right now."
"Ant-Man" will be released to theaters on July 17, 2015.
