Martin Scorsese still cross he wasn’t allowed to direct Ant-man

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has continued to make disparaging remarks about Marvel movies, largely, it is understood, because he wasn’t allowed to make Ant-man in 2010

“Marvel films are a load of old nob,” said Scorsese at the London premiere of his latest film The Irishman.

His enmity stems from 2010 when he put himself forward to direct Ant-man.

“Scorsese wanted that picture. He loved Ant-man,” explained film historian Stewart James.

“I remember interviewing him in the nineties at his office and in pride of place on the wall was a huge poster of Ant-man beating up Yellowjacket.”

When Marvel announced an Ant-man movie, Scorsese saw it as a chance to make a film that would become the crowning achievement in his illustrious career.

“I think he would have retired after his Ant-man,” continued James.

“He believed it would have become the greatest film he’d ever made.”

Sadly, it was not to be.

“No, he turned in a treatment for a three-hour movie that featured 683 uses of the word f**k and featured the graphic dismemberment of Captain America. It was set entirely in 1950s Little Italy and began with a half an hour conversation between Ant-man and a priest to the sound of Bobby Darin’s first album.

“It just didn’t fit in with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

Scorsese has harboured a grudge ever since and will not shy away from making his feelings known.

“Avengers: Endgame was balls,” he said in an interview last week.

It is not the first time the legendary director has taken against a franchise.

In 1982 he called the Carry-on series ‘a bunch of ass’ after not being allowed to direct Carry On Vegas, a film he’d written as a come-back for the franchise.

Happily, however, in that instance, he was able make that film himself which was released with the title – Casino.