Till en början var den skickliga regissören Edgar Wright tänkt att regissera Ant-Man. Marvel och Wright kom däremot aldrig överens om hur filmen skulle vara och snart därefter lämnade han projektet. I en intervju med Uproxx avslöjade han att han inte tänker se filmen eller ens trailern.
"I haven't seen it and I haven't even seen the trailer," Wright revealed. "It would kind of be like asking me, 'Do you want to watch your ex-girlfriend have sex?' Like, 'No, I'm good.'"
"The closest I came to [watching Ant-Man] was that somebody sitting near me on a flight was watching it. And when I saw that the person sitting next to me was going to watch the movie, I thought, 'hmm, maybe I'm going to do some work on my laptop.'"
På frågan om han ångrar att han inte gjorde filmen svarade han att han inte har någon som helst ånger. Han vill dock inte prata illa om filmen eftersom Paul Rudd, en god vän till honom, spelar huvudrollen.
"I have zero regrets about not doing the movie. Zero. The only thing I regret is the time wasted, my time and [fellow writer/director] Joe Cornish's time wasted. That's all I regret, I'll never be pressed into kind of bad-mouthing it, because the truth of the matter is my friends are in it."
"Paul Rudd is a friend of mine and we're still very good friends. And in fact, I saw him in New York the other week and we had dinner and it was the first time we'd had a chance to properly sit down since that whole thing. And the one thing I'll say about that movie is I'm pleased that I got a writing credit on it, because it sort of makes up for having worked on the script for like eight years. Two is that I got my friend, Paul, a part in a major film. And I did say to Paul — he knows I haven't seen it — I said, 'You know, I haven't seen the movie, and I will never watch it. I did see you in Civil War, and you were the funniest bit.'"
