HOW EDGAR WRIGHT'S ANT-MAN Would Have SAVED the MCU | What If

[@NewRockstars]

What "could have been" would you like us to explore next?!

[@RobbeRooms]

What if Covid didn't force Marvel to change the release order and storylines of Phase Four?

[@WhyIsGamora109]

what if…chadwick boseman was still alive?

[@achmadnurhadi1414]

What if Doctor Strange 2 was directed by Scott Derrickson?

[@Krakenjack1]

What if they added mutants and the x-men to the marvel movies sooner ?

[@starslayer8858]

I would love to see a universe where Quicksilver survived and things played out differently

[@moodlofiliminal]

Edgar wright would have had a new identity on antman. Antman is a funny and fun movie but edgar would have taken it from Quirky to unique. I truly believe that.

[@McKeeNJackson]

So with the movies under Edgar’s belt what make you think it would’ve been unique? He’s a comedy director

[@moodlofiliminal]

@McKeeNJackson im comparing it to movies like scott pilgrim. Scott pilgrim os a great comedy movie but it definitely has its own style

[@headkiller007]

This needs to be the Snyder cut lol

[@wesstewart2677]

@@McKeeNJackson he’s a very versatile director. Idk why you label him as just a comedy director. Last Night in Soho is a psychological thriller, Baby Driver is a fast paced action/heist/romance film, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is drastically different than those other two I mentioned. Shaun of The Dead is a zombie film satire, Hot Fuzz is a Buddy cop comedy, and The World’s End is an alien invasion film.

[@brokeartist9560]

Next episode should be : What if Edward Norton continued working on the character of The Hulk

[@goblinounours]

Not sure the outcome would've been favorable for us the viewers. Norton was reported to be insufferable on set, trying to rewrite scenes and such. IMHO, Ruffalo is one of the least problematic actors in the MCU.

[@ScepticalSocietalRecap]

Man this is such a clever idea for a series! There are so many What If’s that have been presented since Marvel Studio’s inception, would love to see more!

[@ritchiedecaro1627]

This was glorious! All the backstory before the nexus point was really informative, and your opening theme was amazing! I really hope you continue with these, like "What if... Sam Raimi got to launch the MCU with Spiderman 4"

[@NicholasRHunn]

Another video as solid as Edgar Wright's writing. ❤

[@slicvicc]

This was a fantastic look into a new series! I go into a lot of these movies with no knowledge of script, marvel aesthetics, or the film industry. It kind of makes me sad to hear what could’ve been when I loved what I’ve already watched😅 But I love the juicy stories behind the scenes 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@EleraiaD]

Edgar Wright had so much talent. It sucks that we never got to see his version of Ant-man.If his movie actually happened , it would've given us the best MCU debut ever.

[@YxngPrince]

Crazyyyyyyyyy I got here fast

[@colep3268]

Really enjoyed this video! Hope you guys keep going with this series it’s thought provoking!

[@MrRobertGillan]

Such a shame Joseph Gordon-Levitt lost out on the role. Really glad we got Paul Rudd in the end though. Still hoping to see him show up and play an important character in the MCU one day, JGL is such a good dude and a fantastic actor.

[@Werewolf914]

I love this idea so much it's always fun to think of what movies could've been or what would happen if a different Actor was in the role, like what if Jensen Ackles got the role of Captain America? All I know is it probably would've meant Supernatural didn't go 15 Seasons and I would've been sad.

[@bonzujones8028]

Erik, your story-telling ability is unparalleled. Edgar wright was my favourite

[@Mr.LegendDude]

Awesome video NR! I've got six "What If?..." concepts of my own. "What If... Ike Perlmutter was the President of Marvel Studios?" "What If... Avengers: Age of Ultron was a Box-Office Bomb?" "What If... Warner Bros sold Minor DC Characters' Film Rights to Disney in 2020?" "What If... Kenneth Branagh directed all four Thor movies?" "What If... Disney Never Fired James Gunn?" - A Warner Bros. Centric Story "What If... Sony Never Shared Spider-Man?" - A Sony Centric Story

[@clspriggs83]

Such a great vid. I'm glad you guys started these now. Love it

[@Kilo_Mora]

So impressed with this! Loved the timeline brances like loki titles the intro the imagination brought with perfect visuals and the perfect narrating voice to keep us intrigued! They should hire you for what if series

[@burgergud2804]

Keep making more of these! It was great

[@danmwilson911]

That was fun. Nice job NR team!

[@ardglassvikings1996]

Great format Erik, very slick. Kind wish I'd seen Edgar Wrights vision come to life.

[@T-BoneStone]

Really cool video concept! Give us more, please

[@nickjohnson1752]

one episode in and i already love this series, cant wait till the next one!

[@mr.han_5016]

this is why i love erik and new rockstars lmaoooo

[@agonforreal]

I’m not even someone who’s that interested in the inner workings of movies but this well written video had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Great work guys, looking forward to more of these!

[@keithwoodcrest]

Dude. These are gonna be dope to watch. Really enjoyed this so much, had no idea about Patrick Wilson originally being cast as Darren Cross. Really wouldve liked to see that but thoroughly enjoy Corey Stoll in the role as well

[@sirrobbetv]

I love this new style 🤩🤩

[@TrayTerra]

A season of What If on KZbin written by a group of fans? I’m down, bring on episode 2 🍿

[@masonparker24]

Wow this is kind of cool posting this on the main channel. Keep these coming!

[@RoyBall1987]

This is a fantastic idea. Good work!

[@Troygdesign]

This is a fascinating direction, keep going

[@ahchiu9]

Absolutely love this as a series. Very well done research on this too. Super fun to think of what could have been, and the ending? Unexpected and inspired. haha

[@HankTheHippy710]

Please do more of these!!!! Amazing work as always

[@WTS3Point]

What if.. Stan Lees atempts to create an MCU in the 80's had been as succeful as the current MCU?

[@goggyimposter1963]

Never clicked on something faster keep up the good work guys

[@alextheamethyst5262]

Fr safe

[@alextheamethyst5262]

Same*

[@alextheamethyst5262]

Sorry I’m hight asfuck

[@TheDalek]

Amazing new series, please more of it! For example with: What if Venom was actually part of the Sinister Six in No Way Home?

[@patrickmel8728]

I blame Baskin Robbins... Baskin Robbins ALWAYS finds out 🍦

[@jk5kwastaken]

somehow the cosmos aligened and I have slowly been reading the MCU book and today the chapter I was on was the Edgar Wright one....

[@MandosCulture]

we need the Nerds to fusion dance with the scriptwriters

[@jager3090]

Oh God. I fucking love you guys. That intro was priceless 😂

[@TheLovelyLadybug]

I would’ve KILLED to have Patrick Wilson as Darren Cross.

[@tangeloatkinson]

Pleeeeeeease keep doing more of these

[@franciscovasquez283]

Best NR video ever!!!

[@TheSmiley1shooter]

THAT WAS AN AMAZING INTRO HAHAHA! I LOVED IT!!!!!

[@shotbyrot]

Favorite video on this channel!!!! It was AWESOME! Need more

[@mrk0per]

I really love Edgar Wright and having him direc4 a marvel movie would be so awesome

[@NicholasT588]

welcome back king

[@ItsEricVenzon]

Ugh. A prequel story to Scott Lang with Hank Pym joining with the Fantastic 4 is the best idea!!

[@harlequeenchannel]

Actually really impressed! I especially liked that you showed it wouldnt be a perfect fix, that the studio would still do its thing lol

[@ajaykings929]

This was an awesome Video

[@Duke_Weasle]

Lol this is actually a great idea for a series!

[@yungsambal]

"wright man, wrong time" 🔥🔥🔥

[@mickeydirt]

This was fun! Thanks guys!

[@djdcharles4281]

I love that concept soo much WHAT IF

[@TheTimcarry5]

We can all agree that what Jonathan Majors did was gross and shameful. He is a hell of an actor, though. Killed it as Kang in Loki.

[@seanofstories91]

This is awesome, I love the NR watcher lol

[@sodangeruss]

lol surprisingly, entertaining! Voss 🏆 you the man

[@danielcielak9228]

I think the closest we’ve gotten to a director-steered mcu is James Gunn and Chloe Zhao. One of the two was arguably their biggest success story, the other one of their first shortcomings.

[@NicholasPhillips713]

This was a great video. Loved how funny it was.

[@ryanb2760]

Y'know Edgar Wright's film would take place July 2015 to August 2015. Posted: 7:01 PM EST Tuesday January 2nd 2024

[@rossquinn362]

Right okay that could be the funniest intro ever...

[@jsonyu179]

love this series !!!

[@whoisburnden2024]

I know how Marvel can save itself. In Deadpool 3, Deadpool admits he broke into Marvel and re-wrote all the negatively received films after Spider-Man: No Way Home in an effort to have fans enjoy his film that much more. He gets all the credit for saving the MCU, Marvel eats some humble pie and with that they win fans back.

[@damontrombetta2416]

Need that Scott Derricksons doctor strange mom!!

[@chonik]

Excelente video !

[@robertguarino355]

Wow ... I put this episode on as back round noise, but I was glued to it the whole time. 👏👏👏 That's an awesome video. Hopefully, they will do more like it.

[@MatthewK122]

Hope Edgar writes fantastic 4

[@bbartky]

Cool idea but it’s not going to happen. The director and screenwriters are locked in and production should start in a month or two.

[@ThePoisonFurry]

It would've been a great movie, I love Edgar Wright's movies

[@w10u1sg]

This is a ridiculous series that I will be skipping in the future. Edgar Wright made a few good movies but let's settle down with this notion that losing him hurt the MCU in any way.

[@gavinkecan8917]

This was brilliantly done from top to bottom.

[@trey3rob]

Wish you released this before quantumania

[@linehult_bricks]

What if Ed Norton got his way with the hulk

[@connorcrossland6007]

What if series is such an intriguing take on things the possibilities are truly endless a dying what if I have is what Andrew garlfield Spider-Man was never abandoned

[@EyeOnlyHaveEyes42]

This is a much better concept than The Breakroom, but shouldn't this be a deeper dive.

[@ZaOnly420]

Even tho wasp isn't like a super known character to non super fans. I still think wasp should have been in the first avenger movie .

[@HighJive5]

What if Tobey Maguire left due to pay differences (sore back) after Spider-man 1, recast with Jake Gyllenhaal, Spiderman 2 bombs…?

[@chefartiebucco22]

Eric, any reason Esposito is still getting marquis credits in movies? If she produced it and got fired, her name should obviously be in the credits but I don't know why it's still featured after all the hullabaloo

[@khajogaming5753]

What if, EA Voss was a trailer voice/narrator

[@jordanescher4978]

Do you think Fiege ever sees these videos? He def should check this one out

[@Omg_im_scared]

I like the antman we have now. im greatful and we should stick with it

[@henith7850]

While I do believe edgar wrights ant man would have been really good, I also agree that Edgar Wright is better suited for stand alone films and I don't think his ant man would have worked in the mcu. If it was just a standalone ant man movie, that would be one thing, but its not. Also, I love scott lang as a character in the mcu and while wrights version of scott probably would have worked, I just prefer the take on the character we got in the mcu. Though who knows. Other directors that did not seem suited for the mcu have pulled it off.

[@Benjaxiso]

This video was sooo good

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

Why are you not talking about Doctor Who Special #4? Or Percy Jackson??

[@HLWiley]

I wish I lived in this universe.

[@gpaderx6105]

How Scott Derickson's Dr Strange MOM Would Have SAVED the MCU!!!! please make it happen!!!

[@NewWorldNewsNetwork]

The marvel creative committee is what gave us the first phases and success... yet, now that is all Fiege, we get notning but duds and yet. People still make this propaganda that its the opposite that failing fiege is the key to everything

[@docAvid314]

Meh. I know basically nothing about Wright that I didn't just learn from this video, but he sounds like a vapid egotist from what you've described here. A good writer would receive those revisions, the shoe-horned tie-ins, and say, "you know what, I see what you're trying to do here, but don't like how you're doing it... Can we take a bit more time, and I'll try to give you what you need, in a more organic way?" Actually, a good writer would have understood that they were writing for a shared universe in the first place, and created a story that fits in that universe, and the organic tie-ins would flow naturally from that, so this would have never been an issue. If somebody wants to do original, independent work, they should do that, and that's great, but you don't get to do that and also ride the success of a bigger mythology. Cooperating with others to build something bigger requires putting the ego aside. It's an interesting exercise to imagine how a Feige with more clout could have coaxed Wright to do better, but realistically, if he had to be coaxed, it's more likely Wright was never prepared for the job.

[@reggieblack1672]

What is the name of the book they reference?

[@Anand2024]

16:17 The timeline we never got

[@thorinwoods2642]

Biggest complaint about Quantumania is they should have stuck to psychoman. Kang should have been shown in DP3 were we could see him kill a lot of characters.

[@josephgrubb1105]

I feel really jipped now damn

[@floepiejane]

Well, I liked the history report, but didn't need the What If? part. Thanks anyway ✌🏽🌻

[@oz420ct9]

Papa Voss!!!!!

[@safirestudio]

All the writers in the initial Marvel program scrupted movies that people didn't like. Or at least liked the least 🤔

[@vn43twelve]

liked this a lot

[@Caine7ify]

THe MCU CAN be saved, but we still need the right people.

[@jendaar]

My takeaway from this? Why throw away a perfectly good pastrami on rye sandwich with brown mustard?

[@uzumaki2689]

Give me Spacey Von Doom

[@bigdeboatl23]

If Edgar Wright didn't want to have MCU tie ins this wouldn't have worked anyways. He needed to tie it in. It was the right nove period.

[@davidthirugnanakumar7888]

No it's not. Because falcon is not even a character before

[@vivekunnikrishnan6201]

Yo that watcher look like mega mind😂😂😂

[@wirelesmike73]

While I would've loved to have seen Wright's take on Ant-Man, 'Last Night In Soho' is a better movie than anything in the MCU aside from the 1st Iron Man or The Winter Soldier... and, maybe even GOTG 1. Disney/Marvel would've sucked the life out of Edgar Wright, and the world is much better off with him making his own movies the way he envisions them. Besides, I liked the 1st Ant-Man.

[@mrstonystark9913]

I’m not on board with anything changing CA: Winter Soldier

[@bbartky]

Same. It’s my favorite MCU film followed closely by Infinity War and Endgame.