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2013/12/20 19:19:24
Subject: Paul Rudd is ... Scott Lang? And Michael Douglas is Hank Pym?
And Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim) is directing!
Marvel's "Ant-Man" has found its hero in Paul Rudd, who will star in the new film from director Edgar Wright hitting theaters July 31, 2015!
The casting of Rudd represents the actor that Marvel and Wright had long ago identified as its first choice to play Ant-Man, continuing the studio's desire to cast actors that bring several dimensions to its onscreen heroes. The film's plot is being kept under wraps.
"We knew early on that we had found the right person in Paul. When he not only agreed to do it but became as enthusiastic as any actor we'd ever met with about doing the work, we knew we'd found the right guy." - Marvel Studios president Kevin feige
"When Edgar Wright came to us with the idea of Paul Rudd, we felt a huge sense of relief because the first step in creating any Marvel Studios film is finding the right star," said Marvel's Kevin Feige. "We knew early on that we had found the right person in Paul. When he not only agreed to do it but became as enthusiastic as any actor we'd ever met with about doing the work, we knew we'd found the right guy. We couldn't be more excited for our audiences to see what he's going to do to bring Ant-Man to life."
Rudd brings a diverse background to the role having become one of the industry's most known actors with a reputation for smart, funny and creative performances. Rudd can currently be seen in "Anchor Man 2: The Legend Continues," as well as past roles in "Anchorman," "This Is 40," "I Love You, Man," "Role Models," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Our Idiot Brother," "Knocked Up," and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" among numerous other films, television shows and primetime animation.
In addition to "Ant-Man," Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the Marvel characters including "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" on April 4, 2014; "Guardians of the Galaxy" on August 1, 2014; and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" on May 1, 2015.
And a picture of Paul Rudd for those that have somehow dodged his umpteen films.
Oh, looks like things are slightly different to how we imagined.
IGN wrote:Edgar Wright and Marvel have landed a high-profile casting get with Michael Douglas now set to play Hank Pym in Ant-Man.
Douglas, who just won a Golden Globe last night for his turn as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, brings yet another level of esteem (and name-power) to Marvel’s output, following in the footsteps of actors like Robert Redford and Glenn Close who are also in upcoming Marvel films.
The actor joins writer-director Wright and Paul Rudd, who will play the lead and is now confirmed as Scott Lang, the “main” Ant-Man in the film from what we can gather. But Douglas’ Hank Pym was the original Ant-Man, in the comics anyway, and it seems likely that this will also be the case in the film. (Lang eventually stole the Ant-Man suit from Pym and in time took over the role from Pym.)
Marvel themselves dropped the casting news today, bypassing the standard industry trades (as is their method these days), but interestingly Variety’s initial report indicated that Douglas would be playing the villain in the film. Within minutes, however, that report was changed to say that Douglas was playing Hank Pym, with no mention of the role being villainous. Hmmm. Did Variety let the cat out of the bag too soon? I mean, if Lang steals Pym’s suit, doesn’t that potentially set up an adversarial relationship between the characters? (Update: Variety's writer just tweeted the following: "Quick update Michael Douglas will be playing Pym and Pym will not be the villain. Sorry folks misunderstanding on my part.")
Meanwhile, Edgar Wright himself tweeted a link to an ancient interview from 2006 that he did with the incomparable Ed Douglas from Superhero Hype, where the director specifically said he wanted to have an older Hank Pym and flashback to him in the 1960s to show the original Ant-Man. Which sounds awesome.
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Hmm, so long as they don't take it too seriously (and with Wright directing that's not really a risk) then this should be pretty good. AM is a very interesting character, comic-wise, and ties in with the Ultron plot. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Pym in Age of Ultron and then the AM film springs off of that.
That said, I can't be the only one gutted they didn't get Simon Pegg in on this. Him and Wright are a great combo.
I thought that they hadn't confirmed whether he would be playing Hank Pym or Scott Lang yet? The press release said "Ant-Man" it didn't specify which Ant-Man.
Nothing is confirmed, but the odds are it is Pym, and that Rudd will be playing him. They have said that while Pym will be connected to Ultron it will be in a different way and that Ultron will have a different origin. My guess is still a corrupted JARVIS.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Wow. An article about Paul Rudd without A SINGLE PICTURE OF PAUL RUDD because apparently everyone has his Ben Affleck looking face burned into their brains already and has seen all his movies.
Stupid Marvel article writers. Apparently the power to get a stock photo is something they just aren't able to wrangle up.
Ahtman wrote: Nothing is confirmed, but the odds are it is Pym, and that Rudd will be playing him. They have said that while Pym will be connected to Ultron it will be in a different way and that Ultron will have a different origin. My guess is still a corrupted JARVIS.
If they pull an Extremis and COMPLETELY destroy the original plot/story, I shall be annoyed. Why can't they just use the proper stories? Ultron's origin isn't even that complicated:
Scientist creates robot, which goes evil.
Scientist becomes super-hero and joins the Avengers
Much epic fighting ensues.
I'd like to think they'd be bringing in Vision at some point as well, but I doubt they will.
Kovnik Obama wrote: I don't know who Hank Pym or Ant-man is, but when I google image search him, I mostly find references to him beating his wife. Huh.
Here's the cliffs notes version: Hank Pym once gestured too enthusiastically and accidentally hit his wife. The artist misinterpreted the instruction and made it look deliberate. On that day, Hank Pym became Hank Pym, Wife Beater.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis
Ultimate comics didn't help though. They took the old idea and actually made him beat the gak out of Janet. So to the new bloods, he is a woman-beating prick.
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Ahtman wrote: The reason it is so memorable is because there isn't much else about him worth remembering.
Pretty much. I suppose there has to be somebody outside of Marvel Comics that likes Ant Man (Original or Ultimates), but I can 't find them.
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Ahtman wrote: The reason it is so memorable is because there isn't much else about him worth remembering.
Yep. He's pretty much "that guy that built Vision and Ultron". His most notable characteristics are building better, more popular characters and hitting his wife.
Also, at some point he became a villain.
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Ahtman wrote: The reason it is so memorable is because there isn't much else about him worth remembering.
Yep. He's pretty much "that guy that built Vision and Ultron". His most notable characteristics are building better, more popular characters and hitting his wife.
Also, at some point he became a villain.
Thy actually made him the heart of the avengers in Earths Mighties Heroes. He was a good guy there. I think the "evil" thing is when he became yellow jacket and they thought he was murdering villains.
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He's responsible for all the bad things in the Marvel universe (well, everything that Wolverine isn't responsible for, that is).
And I guess Rudd'll need to start practicing his back hand.
Anyway, I have faith that they can pull this off. I don't think we'll see another Normal Man (aka Iron Man 3) any time soon because I don't think Shane Black will be ruining directing any Marvel movies anytime soon.
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H.B.M.C. wrote: Anyway, I have faith that they can pull this off. I don't think we'll see another Normal Man (aka Iron Man 3) any time soon because I don't think Shane Black will be ruining directing any Marvel movies anytime soon.
Considering he wrote and directed the highest grossing film of 2013 (Iron Man 3) I doubt Marvel is going to let him just wander off; some comic fans being unhappy with how they mangled Extremis has little to do with how well the film did financially. I imagine they are trying to get him involved in something down the road.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Ahtman wrote: Considering he wrote and directed the highest grossing film of 2013 (Iron Man 3) I doubt Marvel is going to let him just wander off; some comic fans being unhappy with how they mangled Extremis has little to do with how well the film did financially. I imagine they are trying to get him involved in something down the road.
So quick to dismiss criticism as some "unhappy" comic book fans.
I did not like Iron Man 3 yet I care not for what they did with Extremis (I thought it was cool) nor what they did to The Mandarin (I thought it was funny). Hell I even liked the kid and found him to be an interesting addition to the film. What I care about is the destruction of the Iron Man character. By the end of the film we realise that:
1. He doesn't even need to be in the suit. 2. He doesn't even need to pilot the suit. 3. Jarvis can do everything Tony can do. 4. He's no longer Iron Man (despite his insistence).
Shane Black took the concept of Iron Man and removed the suit, leaving us with, as I said, "Regular Man".
I liked Iron Man 3 (7/10 for me) but I think a better ending would have been to have Iron Man fight the villain in his busted up Iron Man suit and he has to use his wits overcome the weakness of having a busted Iron Man suit.
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Ahtman wrote: Considering he wrote and directed the highest grossing film of 2013 (Iron Man 3) I doubt Marvel is going to let him just wander off; some comic fans being unhappy with how they mangled Extremis has little to do with how well the film did financially. I imagine they are trying to get him involved in something down the road.
So quick to dismiss criticism as some "unhappy" comic book fans.
I didn't dismiss anyone, and in fact was specific to who were the people that were unhappy*. The only people that have read the Extemis storyline are comic book fans, and going by both the box office as well as statements around the internet and in real life not all that saw it were unhappy with it, thus only 'some' were. Nowhere do I dismiss, ignore, or deny that anyone could have legitimate grievances with the film, only that it doesn't mean anything compared to the fact that it was horrendously popular anyway, so I don't think Marvel will be giving Black the boot to appease those unhappy fans.
*In regards to the original Extremis storyline.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Not sure if this is necro or not, considering it's very relevant to this particular topic, but this just popped up on IGN.
So yeah, Paul Rudd isn't actually Hank Pym, he's Scott Lang.
Michael Douglas is Hank Pym.
IGN wrote:Edgar Wright and Marvel have landed a high-profile casting get with Michael Douglas now set to play Hank Pym in Ant-Man.
Douglas, who just won a Golden Globe last night for his turn as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, brings yet another level of esteem (and name-power) to Marvel’s output, following in the footsteps of actors like Robert Redford and Glenn Close who are also in upcoming Marvel films.
The actor joins writer-director Wright and Paul Rudd, who will play the lead and is now confirmed as Scott Lang, the “main” Ant-Man in the film from what we can gather. But Douglas’ Hank Pym was the original Ant-Man, in the comics anyway, and it seems likely that this will also be the case in the film. (Lang eventually stole the Ant-Man suit from Pym and in time took over the role from Pym.)
Marvel themselves dropped the casting news today, bypassing the standard industry trades (as is their method these days), but interestingly Variety’s initial report indicated that Douglas would be playing the villain in the film. Within minutes, however, that report was changed to say that Douglas was playing Hank Pym, with no mention of the role being villainous. Hmmm. Did Variety let the cat out of the bag too soon? I mean, if Lang steals Pym’s suit, doesn’t that potentially set up an adversarial relationship between the characters? (Update: Variety's writer just tweeted the following: "Quick update Michael Douglas will be playing Pym and Pym will not be the villain. Sorry folks misunderstanding on my part.")
Meanwhile, Edgar Wright himself tweeted a link to an ancient interview from 2006 that he did with the incomparable Ed Douglas from Superhero Hype, where the director specifically said he wanted to have an older Hank Pym and flashback to him in the 1960s to show the original Ant-Man. Which sounds awesome.
