Ant-Man (2015) starring Michael Douglas & Paul Rudd
 

Michael Douglas will play Hank Pym.

Paul Rudd will play Scott Lang.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/mi...an-1201052848/



This is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 3 which is set to include Captain America 3 (pretty much confirmed), Thor 3 (confirmed), Dr. Strange (extremely likely), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 3 (unconfirmed), and ultimately Avengers 3 (confirmed).

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Is Antman actually any good? Seems like a pretty shite guy to have around when you've got Hulk, Thor etc. Captain America seemed lame enough compared to them, can't see how a guy who can shrink will be anything other than comic relief.

Ant-Man, and also The Atom on the DC side, have proved on several occasions to be very useful. I mean I get you, I think size changing is just stupid and I never liked it as a superhero concept - but the comics do present them as useful and even formidable on occasion.

Surely they'll have flashbacks of him doing Ant-Man things, maybe he was involved with the original SHIELD as well (likely met Howard Stark too). But the younger guy with a habit of elaborate heists is just more 'Hollywood', really.

I guess he could make himself really small, climb into Loki's mouth and then make himself big again and explode Loki from the inside.

Maybe we can have flashbacks of Michael Douglas Ant-Man running around on a team with Peggy Carter.

Which would be A-OK if/when Peggy's show gets off the ground.

as in the mcmuffin commercial..... WHAAAAAAAAAT?


This will be cool I think.

The name alone will be an issue with the mainstream. And sure he can be useful, but phase three in a battle with thanos is a bit late in the game to bring him in as any real interesting addition.

IMHO

If this came out last year it would be perfect.

Cool.

How is Phase 3 late in the game? By that logic you're saying not to introduce any new characters in Phase 3 and just have sequels. Do you like Dr. Strange at all?

Thinking about this now, I like the idea of a "legacy hero" movie. It is something we haven't really seen yet.

You'd think DC would be all about "legacy hero" movies, since they have/had so many legacy heroes. They should make a Starman movie/movies.

He's talking about the escalation of the threat the Avengers face, and how Ant-man compares to that threat. He's not talking about new characters in general.

That said, I've read Avengers for years, and Ant-man has been useful plenty of times.

That video that was released a while ago also showed how good the character could be in combat.

I am glad that Edgar Wright is directing the movie. I am also glad that Paul Rudd is going to be Ant-Man as he is one of my favourite actors of all time.

My knowledge about Ant-Man is limited to The Ultimates series (Hank Pym when he was married to the Wasp).

You have quote the low bar for favorite actor of all time.

You get me. This is correct. I wasa few drinks in and not as eloquent as you.

I just think to a mass-casual audience the escalation and addition of "space Aliens" and other worldly gods and people with the most amazing super powers, Ant Man will not really stand out or make sense.

Instead if like Antman was around in the first film and still be around in the 3rd Avengers it would fit better than bringing him into his own film then showing up in Avengers 3.

Have no reason to think the film makers will flub it, but I have that concern with this character transitioning to the masses.

Was telling my wife about it and all she could come back with was "why antman how stupid, couldnt the hulk just smush him?"

TOP 5 IN NO ORDER

KILMER
RUDD
JONAH HILL
KEITH DAVID
SEAN BEAN

One of my favorites of all time :$

Meant quite not quote.

Will they do what they did for X Men and make Douggylas look young in flashbacks?

Maybe it will be in the vein of Watchmen in the style of half the movie takes place with shit thats already happened?

Evangeline Lilly Cast as Ant-Man's Female Lead.

Whether she's the MCU's version of Jan/Wasp is not revealed but... prepare for something like that is all I'm saying.

Well Evangeline Lilly is one of my Hollywood hard-ons, so Im okay with his.

Think she'd make a great wasp. Besides her, really the only other female characters connected to Pym are Tigra and Jocasta.

There's a good chance Yellowjacket will be retrofit as the villain.

Edgar Wright is out. Fuck this gay shit!

LOL Ant-Man.

Am I the only one that pictures this movie bombing?

Nope.

I can see the media outlets calling it the superhero movie that burst the genres bubble. The Green Lantern had the mainstream rolling its eyes and I heard "Now they're really scraping the barrel!" when it was being discussed on tv. A serious action movie called Antman will probably get the same reaction or worse.

Green Lantern didn't suck because they were scraping the barrel (and who says that, GL is hella popular), that movie sucked because it sucked as a movie.

I guess yet again we have to bring up the Iron Man example of how a good movie can turn a lesser known hero into something big. The best movie arguably in the MCU is Cap 2, and NOBODY thought that would be the case after Avengers and IM3.

Just thought, it MIGHT have been Green Hornet.

Also, Paul Rudd is Ant Man. I highly doubt they are going to take it that seriously.

Honestly, if they can make gaurdians of the galaxy work, they can make ant man work.

This is totally filming right fucking now.

Post-worthy news!

Also John Slattery is in there, we may remember him as 'old' Howard Stark from Iron Man 2.

That looks like Ben Affleck with a prosthetic nose.

Love me some Paul Rudd.

Evangeline Lilly's character (Janet Van Dye's daughter), is essentially the MCU's Janet proper. So while it won't be in the origin story, she is totally our Wasp.