Ant-Man (2015, D: Reed) S: Rudd, Douglas, Lilly, Stoll, Peņa
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You're not thread crapping. That's a valid thing to say. I get what you mean.
I think if the trailer is pretty badass the name will be overlooked.
I think if the trailer is pretty badass the name will be overlooked.
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I hope this is not thread crapping. I just don't see the average movie goer paying to see a movie called "Ant Man." The title just sounds too silly to be taken serious. I'll go in with an open mind but i don't think this will do well financially. Maybe they can change the title? Like something related to the movies plot or something.
Plus, they'll have some sort of builder to Avengers 2 in it (or wait, is this coming after Avengers 2?).
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I hope this is not thread crapping. I just don't see the average movie goer paying to see a movie called "Ant Man." The title just sounds too silly to be taken serious. I'll go in with an open mind but i don't think this will do well financially. Maybe they can change the title? Like something related to the movies plot or something.
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I wouldn't exactly call the audience response to that video overwhelming. Heard a few chuckles in there too. The suit and helmet look nice, and the action was fine, but I don't think audiences will take it seriously.
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Not coming until after Avengers 2. Before Avengers 2 we get Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Cap 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. Ant-Man is Wave 3.
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I'll end up watching it, but it doesn't seem particularly interesting to me either. I know its just test footage, but the idea of an ant sized hero punching guys feels a bit too cheesy to me.
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We won't see it until late 2015 at the earliest.
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Hmmmm. Interesting choice. They'd need to nerd him up a little.
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Wright mentioned a long time ago that he'd show off Pym a bit but instead Scott Lang as the focus. Any word on that? Is a Pym film or not? I'd imagine so now with Marvel being what it is.
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I really hope he isn't just pulling our chain but, this looks like a sly way of dropping some news:
https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status...780352/photo/1
https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status...780352/photo/1
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That would be an even more interesting choice.
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You think this is a hint about Ant Man, but in fact they've replaced all the Rocket Raccoon scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy with clip from the mock gun fights in Spaced.
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Huffington Post: But "Ant-Man" is coming up, which people will have a personal idea of.
Edgar Wright: Yeah. Yes, absolutely. And people had a very strong opinions about "Scott Pilgrim" because it was an adaptation. And there's not much that you can really do about that. I'm sure there are people who didn't like the "Scott Pilgrim" film because it wasn't the books verbatim. And that's impossible. It's like, this is as close as it's going to get. In a weird way, you could never say this, but even at the time i was thinking, If you knew the changes that they wanted me to make, believe me...
HP: What's an example?
EW: I think the biggest thing that wasn't in the books at all -- and, listen, the film is pretty un-compromised and I have to give huge credit to Universal for letting me make the movie the way I made it. But I'd get things like, "You have to explain how they fight. You have to explain how they fight." And I'm like, "I really don't think we need to do that. It's not in the books and I don't think we need to explain." So, stuff like that, you know. So, I think people take this personally when -- it's usually when it's something that is much older.
HP: Is that a nice thing about "Ant-Man"? In that people know who he is, but not really.
EW: I think there's something in that it's a lesser known character, there's hopefully more license. For the one percent of people who are like, "Wait, Hank Pym would never do that!" there's 99 percent going, "Who's Hank Pym?" So, to me, the source material is great but it also frees you up to be like: I'm going to make a movie. The movie is not going to represent 50 years of Marvel comics because that's impossible. But I'm going to make a 100 minute movie -- or 110 minutes [laughs].
HP: Ultron is going to the the villain in the next Avengers movie, which is coming out before "Ant-Man." In the comics, Ant-Man invented Ultron. Ant-Man is a strange enough character on his own for a movie, would it have just too much to say, "Here's Ant-Man and, by the way, he also invented this robot named Ultron"? Would that have been too much for the first "Ant-Man" movie?
EW: It was never in my script. Because even just to sort of set up what Ant-Man does is enough for one movie. It's why I think "Iron Man" is extremely successful because it keeps it really simple. You have one sort of -- the villain comes from the hero's technology. It's simple. So I think why that film really works and why, sometimes, superhero films fail -- or they have mixed results -- because they have to set up a hero and a villain at the same time. And that's really tough. And sometimes it's unbalanced. You know, when I was younger I used to love Tim Burton's "Batman." I was like 15 and even then I was aware, "This is really the Joker's film." It's like, the Joker just takes over and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him. Comics have years to explain this stuff and in a movie you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus. You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
Edgar Wright: Yeah. Yes, absolutely. And people had a very strong opinions about "Scott Pilgrim" because it was an adaptation. And there's not much that you can really do about that. I'm sure there are people who didn't like the "Scott Pilgrim" film because it wasn't the books verbatim. And that's impossible. It's like, this is as close as it's going to get. In a weird way, you could never say this, but even at the time i was thinking, If you knew the changes that they wanted me to make, believe me...
HP: What's an example?
EW: I think the biggest thing that wasn't in the books at all -- and, listen, the film is pretty un-compromised and I have to give huge credit to Universal for letting me make the movie the way I made it. But I'd get things like, "You have to explain how they fight. You have to explain how they fight." And I'm like, "I really don't think we need to do that. It's not in the books and I don't think we need to explain." So, stuff like that, you know. So, I think people take this personally when -- it's usually when it's something that is much older.
HP: Is that a nice thing about "Ant-Man"? In that people know who he is, but not really.
EW: I think there's something in that it's a lesser known character, there's hopefully more license. For the one percent of people who are like, "Wait, Hank Pym would never do that!" there's 99 percent going, "Who's Hank Pym?" So, to me, the source material is great but it also frees you up to be like: I'm going to make a movie. The movie is not going to represent 50 years of Marvel comics because that's impossible. But I'm going to make a 100 minute movie -- or 110 minutes [laughs].
HP: Ultron is going to the the villain in the next Avengers movie, which is coming out before "Ant-Man." In the comics, Ant-Man invented Ultron. Ant-Man is a strange enough character on his own for a movie, would it have just too much to say, "Here's Ant-Man and, by the way, he also invented this robot named Ultron"? Would that have been too much for the first "Ant-Man" movie?
EW: It was never in my script. Because even just to sort of set up what Ant-Man does is enough for one movie. It's why I think "Iron Man" is extremely successful because it keeps it really simple. You have one sort of -- the villain comes from the hero's technology. It's simple. So I think why that film really works and why, sometimes, superhero films fail -- or they have mixed results -- because they have to set up a hero and a villain at the same time. And that's really tough. And sometimes it's unbalanced. You know, when I was younger I used to love Tim Burton's "Batman." I was like 15 and even then I was aware, "This is really the Joker's film." It's like, the Joker just takes over and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him. Comics have years to explain this stuff and in a movie you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus. You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Either way. I'm excited to see Wright do this. The guy is a very clever director. That concept teaser or whatever was very neat.
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Marvel Studios‘ Ant-Man feature had been set for November 6, 2015, but now Disney will release the pic on July 31, 2015. Edgar Wright is directing and he co-wrote the script with Joe Cornish.