Joss Whedon And James Gunn Pay Tribute To Edgar Wright

Joss Whedon has silently shown his support for Edgar Wright on Twitter.

The Avengers’ director paid tribute to his former Marvel colleague by posting a picture of himself holding a Cornetto aloft on Twitter in reference to Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, which includes ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘Hot Fuzz’, and ‘The World's End’.

[Edgar Wright quits Marvel's Ant-Man]

While Whedon posted no comment alongside the image, it’s reasonable to assume the Tweet is a nod to the events of last week which saw Wright step down as director of Marvel’s upcoming film ‘Ant-Man’.

Of course, Whedon might just really, really, really like Cornettos.

Fellow Marvel director James Gunn, who has helmed the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ adaptation, also spoke about the situation.

Unprompted, Gunn posted a heartfelt update on his Facebook page likening Wright’s departure to the break-up of a relationship.

“Sometimes you have friends in a relationship,” it read. “You love each of them dearly as individuals and think they’re amazing people. When they talk to you about their troubles, you do everything you can to support them, to keep them together, because if you love them both so much doesn’t it make sense they should love each other? But little by little you realize, at heart, they aren’t meant to be together – not because there’s anything wrong with either of them, but they just don’t have personalities that mesh in a comfortable way. They don’t make each other happy. Although it’s sad to see them split, when they do, you’re surprisingly relieved, and excited to see where their lives take them next.

“It’s easy to try to make one party ‘right’ and another party ‘wrong’ when a breakup happens, but it often isn’t that simple. Or perhaps it’s even more simple than that – not everyone belongs in a relationship together. It doesn’t mean they’re not wonderful people.

“And that’s true of both Edgar Wright and Marvel. One of them isn’t a person, but I think you get what I mean.”

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After working on the movie for around eight years, Wright departed the project due to “creative differences” with the studio.

Further comment about the situation hasn’t been made, but film gossip site Latino Review claims that Wright took exception to an inferior rewrite of the script he’d penned with Joe Cornish that was apparently “poorer, homogenised, and not Edgar’s vision”.

‘Ant-Man’, starring Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Patrick Wilson, is still scheduled for a July 2015 release. A new director is expected to be announced in due course.