Michael Douglas To Appear At Comic Con, Very Disappointed Edgar Wright Left Ant-Man

Michael Douglas will be making an appearance at a Marvel panel at this year's San Diego Comic Con.

Collider asked Douglas, who will play Hank Pym in Ant-Man, if he was planning to attend this year's convention. Here's what he had to say:

"Yeah!  I'm going to Comic-Con.  I'm even dragging my son.  I promised I'm taking him out of camp … But we gotta be back here.  I've gotta give a cancer speech on Sunday morning.  Marvel's 8:45 or – 8:45 on Saturday night, so we're gonna fly all night back and drop him at camp like at 5:30, 6 in the morning in the Adirondacks, and come down and talk to 2,000 head and neck surgeons."

We should note that Douglas is most likely mistaken about the timing of Marvel panel, as that time on Saturday night has already been claimed by DC Entertainment's big television event.

Of course, Douglas was also asked about his feelings regarding the departure of Ant-Man's original director Edgar Wright.

"Yeah, he's a wonderful talent.  It was very disappointing, yeah.  It was a big disappointment and more so for him because he had a lot of years invested and he was really the one initially who got them to even consider it, you know, the screenplay that he wrote.  I'm not the producer on it and I'm an actor for hire, and, you know, Marvel certainly has a pretty amazing track record, rightly or wrongly, so I think it just was that kind of combination where although they like the idea of the individual and somebody with Edgar's individual spirit and everything, maybe just collided with an operation – I think they're all on relatively decent terms."

Ant-Man is scheduled for theatrical release on July 17, 2015.