Michael Douglas has been discussing writer-director Edgar Wright’s surprise departure from Ant-Man, calling it “a big disappointment.”

Speaking to Collider while promoting new movie And So It Goes, Douglas refers to Wright as “a wonderful talent” and says “It was a big disappointment and more so for him because he had a lot of years invested and he was really the one initially who got them to even consider it, you know, the screenplay that he wrote.

“I’m not the producer on it and I’m an actor for hire, and, you know, Marvel certainly has a pretty amazing track record, rightly or wrongly, so I think it just was that kind of combination where although they like the idea of the individual and somebody with Edgar’s individual spirit and everything, maybe just collided with an operation – I think they’re all on relatively decent terms.”

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