Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau are among the directors working on Marvel's Avengers movies, and Edgar Wright, the director of Shaun of the Dead and the upcoming Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, is ready to join them. Ant-Man, one of the founding members of The Avengers, will be the hero in Wright's movie, for which he has already written a script. Trouble is, Wright's still working on Pilgrim, which means that Ant-Man will have to wait.
Ant-Man is something I need to return to. I wrote a draft before Scott Pilgrim started and it's kind [of] on back burner slightly just because I've been busy with this. But it's something that I have got to return to. I have to do another draft after Scott Pilgrim is done. When you come away from something it's good and fun to rework what you've already done. But I'm very happy with the first draft and we need to get back into business.
Pilgrim, the story of a man (Michael Cera) who must fight his girlfriend's evil ex-boyfriends, won't open until 2010, meaning Ant-Man likely won't see the big screen until after The Avengers hits on May 4, 2012.