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One of the things I don't want to do is get into the whole Marvel history...That character isn't one of [Marvel Studios'] biggest properties.We [Wright and Feige] discussed whether he would be in The Avengers. The thing is, the script that I’ve written [...] the chronology of it or the way it works wouldn’t really fit in with what they do.
Frankly, now we have to re-write [Ant-Man] to put it a little bit more into the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] because it was written before it existed
We changed, frankly some of the MCU to accommodate this version of Ant-Man. Knowing what we wanted to do with Edgar and with Ant-Man, going years and years back, helped to dictate what we did with the roster for Avengers the first time. It was a bit of both in terms of his idea for the Ant-Man story influencing the birth of the MCU in the early films leading up to Avengers.
It was... A story Edgar wanted to tell that we'll see with Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd, and now we're 11 films in...
It was never in my script. Because even just to sort of set up what Ant-Man does is enough for one movie.