Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Joe Cornish & Edgar Wright
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478970/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Ant-Man
http://marvel.com/antman#home
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Cast:Biochemist Dr. Hank Pym uses his latest discovery, a group of subatomic particles, to create a size-altering formula. Though his first self-test goes awry, he develops an instrument that helps him communicate with and control insects.
Evangeline Lilly
Paul Rudd - Scott Lang / Ant-Man
Michael Peña
Corey Stoll
Patrick Wilson
Michael Douglas - Hank Pym
Matt Gerald
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Spoiler: showhttp://www.iamrogue.com/news/movie-n...s-ant-man.htmlWith the success of Thor earlier this summer, Captain America: The First Avenger opening in a few weeks, and The Avengers currently in production, it looks like Marvel Studios’ plan to bring several of their characters to the big screen in one unifying Marvel Universe is really going to happen. Many fans doubted that they could pull it off since it meant creating four different successful film franchises and then combining them into one.
They were off to a good start with ‘2008s Iron Man, which set the tone for the Marvel film universe with Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance as Nick Fury and made over $500 million worldwide. They hit a minor bump in the road with the re-boot The Incredible Hulk, which debuted the same summer as Iron Man. Even with a cameo by Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, The Incredible Hulk only managed to make a little over $250 million worldwide. Not letting this ruin their plans, Marvel continued with Iron Man 2 in 2010, which introduced Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and earned over $600 million worldwide. Thor, which introduced the God of thunder and gave us a brief glimpse at Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), has already earned over $400 million worldwide, and Marvel has high hopes for Captain America: The First Avenger’s upcoming release, which will introduce Steve Rogers alter ego and pave the way for The Avengers next summer.
One Marvel character and founding member of The Avengers who will not appear in the upcoming movie is Ant-Man. There have been rumors for years that the character might be getting a big screen makeover from directors Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), and Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), who are penning the script. But with delays in pre-production due to scheduling, they were unable to get the origin story film off the ground in time and the character had to be taken out of the running to appear as a member in the initial Avengers film. But it seems like the tiny hero may still make the leap from the page to the silver screen thanks to the success of the recent Marvel films and the buzz that the two directors have been receiving, respectively, from their last projects.
For the uninitiated, Ant-Man was created in 1962 by comic book legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym was a biophysicist and nanotechnology expert who discovered a chemical substance that would allow him to shrink his size. Armed with a helmet that could control ants, Pym became the pint-size mystery-solving super hero Ant-Man, and along with his wife Janet Van Dyne (the pixie-like Wasp) eventually became founding members of The Avengers.
I recently caught up with writer/director Joe Cornish while he was out promoting his new film Attack the Block, which opens in theater on July 29th. The movie was produced by his friend and colleague Edgar Wright and marks Cornish’s directorial debut. While we were chatting, I took the opportunity to ask the filmmaker if he is still working on the script for Ant-Man with Wright and what the current status of the project is. “Yeah, Ant-Man is still going,” confirmed Cornish. “Edgar and I were writing on it only the day before yesterday,” he admitted. I followed up by asking if they were doing a lot of rewriting on the script. “Yeah, we’re just drafting and drafting,” he said. Finally, with Wright's busy schedule, I wanted to find out if Cornish thought that Edgar would still end up directing the movie. “Yes,” Cornish answered. “I’m just a humble writer on that one,” he said in closing.
http://screenrant.com/antman-movie-e...ht-rob-125222/Marvel Studios sadly did not bring a panel presentation this year to Comic-Con, a year where the film industry as a whole came with a smaller presence. This sad reality didn’t mean that The Avengers and other Marvel movies would be missing entirely. Captain America: The Avenger was premiered here on Thursday and Marvel brought a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier-themed setup to the exhibition floor where they handed out posters and holding autograph sessions with some of the talent.
There’s also of course, the talent at the show who, if involved with Marvel Studios in some way, cannot avoid the obligatory related questions. At the Attack The Block presentation for Screen Gems, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish were on panel and were posed a fan question about the status of the Ant-Man film.
Several years have gone by where we’ve repeatedly heard about drafts of scripts and eagerness from those involved for the Ant-Man project to move forward, but Cornish and Wright, who are writing Ant-Man together, have simply been working together on other projects and Marvel is waiting for the right time in their film schedule to release the solo character flick.
Wright revealed the good news that they had actually just handed in the latest Ant-Man script on Monday and that the studio was looking at it.
Back in January, Edgar Wright returned to writing Ant-Man and in March we learned that the latest script draft was near completion, but it’s been silent on the littlest Avenger front with Thor and Captain America taking the summer attention.“We’re very excited about it. We have some concept art and we really enjoy working on it.”
Looking at the bigger plan for Marvel, the studio canceled the lower budget adaptation of The Runaways so The Avengers sits alone as Marvel Studios’ sole theatrical release of 2012, despite a plan to launch two summer blockbusters each year and eventually expand to more. 2013 however, already has lined up sequels to some of their established character solo films, namely Thor 2 and Iron Man 3, so could Ant-Man still be three years away or is there a chance Disney will have them push out three feature films for 2013, saving Ant-Man for a fall/holiday release?
That leaves 2014 for other potential sequels including one for The Avengers and what we hope is the launching of some other character titles that the Marvel family has been touting for years: Dr. Strange, Black Panther, Heroes for Hire, S.H.I.E.L.D., etc.
With another script draft in, and assuming that the Ant-Man movie gets the official greenlight from Marvel sometime between now and next summer when The Avengers hits theaters, the title role will likely be cast in that time frame. and Marvel can shoot an end-credits button or cameo role for said character in the team-up film.