It would have been easy for Ant-Man, the first film in Marvel’s Phase Three, to simply be a connecting piece leading up to The Avengers 3, but director Edgar Wright says that won’t be the case.

Edgar Wright has been working on Ant-Man in some capacity for a long time, in fact, he started before Iron Man even hit the big screens back in 2008. Since he started that early, he’s had an Ant-Man story he’s wanted to tell long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe evolved into the monster it is now.

In a new interview with The Playlist, Wright says he’s planning on continuing with his orignal idea of having Ant-Man exist as more of a stand alone film:

I think it’s just doing its own thing in the accepted history but it’s still part of the other movies and always was. In the time I’ve been working on it other things have happened in the other movies that could be affected in this. It is pretty standalone in the way we’re linking it to the others. I like to make it standalone because I think the premise of it needs time. I want to put the crazy premise of it into a real world, which is why I think “Iron Man” really works because it’s a relatively simple universe; it’s relatable. I definitely want to go into finding a streamlined format where you use the origin format to introduce the main character and further adventures can bring other people into it. I’m a big believer in keeping it relatively simple and Marvel agrees on that front.

The Iron Man example is the perfect and obvious one to bring up. Ant-Man will likely follow the Iron Man (and to some extent, Captain America) path of the majority of the movie existing all in it’s own world, only to be connected at the very end.

While the majority of the MCU films now are all about connecting to the next Avengers, it will be nice to have one stand pretty much on it’s own.