Not long after director Edgar Wright left Marvel’s Ant-Man film in May, Adam McKay was chosen to help rewrite the script for new director Peyton Reed and recently revealed to Collider that he enlisted star Paul Rudd to help out. “Ultimately I didn’t want to jump in as director, I had too many other projects going on and it was too tight,†McKay said, “but I thought, ‘You know what, I can rewrite this, and I can do a lot of good by rewriting it.’†McKay went on to say that Rudd turned out to be “really great with dialogue†and that they “holed up in hotel rooms on the east and west coast†to rework the script for weeks, adding “a giant action sequence†to the film and some more dialogue:
“We just shaped the whole thing, we just tried to streamline it, make it cleaner, make it a little bigger, a little more aggressive, make it funnier in places—we just basically did a rewrite. Edgar had a really good script. But we just had a blast, and Rudd was just so much fun to write with. I walked away saying, ‘Hey, you and I gotta write a script together.’â€