Me and my cousins went to a advance screening of Ant-Man, and it was INCREDIBLE! I definitely recommend seeing it.
So to celebrate the movies release, here are some facts about the film.
WARNING! The final fact in this update contains spoilers about the two after credits scenes! READ THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Also, if you haven't seen it already, Chapter 3 of Disney Wizards has been published!
Fact #3481
Marvel has been working on pitching the idea for a Ant-Man movie since the late 1980's.
Fact #3482
To make sure the movie didn't get too much attention during filming, the production team filmed in San Francisco under the Bigfoot.
Fact #3483
The first Ant-Man, introduced in the 1962 Marvel Comics story "The Man in the Ant Hill," was Hank Pym, a scientist who found a way to shrink in size. Michael Douglas plays him in the movie, while Paul Rudd stars as the second Ant-Man, a thief named Scott Lang who became a bug-sized good guy under Pym's guidance.
Fact #3484
In the comics, Ant-Man also had other super hero names. He has used another title whilst possessing the ability to grow to giant size - that being Goliath. He has also adopted the insect-themed Yellowjacket mantle and has even briefly used the Wasp title - one usually reserved for his wife Janet van Dyne.
Fact #3485
The VFX team working on Ant-Man decided to utilize techniques that would make the movie different from other "shrinking" films and use those that would give an experimental look. Those chose to use a mix of macro photography (digital mattes of enlarged environments) and motion-capture.
Fact #3486
Ant-Man was one of the original founding members of the Avengers in the Marvel comics.
Fact #3487
The robotic villian Ultron, while created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner in Age of Ultron, his original creator in the comics was actually Doctor Hank Pym, Ant-Man himself.
Fact #3488
Tales to Astonish #27, Ant-Man's first ever appearance, as written by none other than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Fact #3489
Originally Hank, Pym invented a series of serums, one to shrink down to then another he had to take to grow back to regular size. He soon gained the ability to communicate with ants and then grow larger. Nowadays he can shrink to near microscopic sizes and grow upwards of 100 feet. Ant-Man also dishes out a bio-sting, incredible strength, speed, and agility.
Fact #3490
Ant-Man trained flying ants and would ride them around as a means of transportation. But in the beginning he would launch himself out of a tiny little cannon and land on a pile of mind controlled ants.
Fact #3491
In the comics, Scott Lang's daughter Cassie was dying from a heart condition, and Scott would go out and steal money to try to save her life. While in the movie, he was a just a common thief.
Fact #3492
In the comics, Cassie would take up Scott's growing/shrinking superheroic antics as Stature in the Young Avengers.
Fact #3493
Eric O'Grady is the third and most recent man to take up the mantle of Ant-Man. Eric O'Grady was a low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent when he stumbled across the Ant-Man suit. Being a man of few morals, to put it lightly, he had no problem stealing the suit and using it to not only pick up women but to humiliate and torment others. Ultimately, he somehow made being a superhero a selfish act.
Fact #3494
Edgar Wright had been working on Ant-Man since 2003, long before The Avengers movie even seemed possible, and one of his main requests while working on this film was that Marvel refrain from using Ant-Man or Wasp until he had finished the movie. This is why neither were founding Avengers in the films like they were in the comics.
Fact #3495
In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, of which the Marvel Cinematic Universe usually takes it's cues, the writers took the Ant-Man/ wife-beater concept and ran with it. Not only does Hank Pym hit his wife repeatedly in various fits of rage, but he also shrinks her down to wasp size and violently sprays her with bug spray then attacks her with ants.
Fact #3496
In the comics, Ant-Man reveals his identity to socialite, and lab partner, Janet Van Dyne after the death of her father Vernon Van Dyne who was killed by aliens. He then helps her develop her own powers and suit in order to avenge her father's death, becoming The Wasp.
Fact #3497
Michael Douglas said that the costume for Paul Rudd had to be modified after Rudd went through his training to play the hero. Rudd had gone through an extensive and stringent workout regimen to build lean muscle mass. But due to Rudd's newfound muscularity, nothing fit. Douglas said "He was so cut, that they had to soften his costume up, with all the built-in six-packs and all of that."
Fact #3498
The idea of an Ant-Man film has been toyed with for decades, long before Marvel Studios was born. Once the Marvel Cinematic Universe was established, there were plans to include him in a Phase One film and have him be a founding member of the Avengers. Those plans fell through and he was supposed to have a film in Phase Two instead. Ant-Man was then pushed back to becoming the first part of Phase Three... Until finally it was decided that this movie would be the finale of Phase Two, after Avengers: Age of Ultron, and that Captain America: Civil War would lead Phase Three.
Fact #3499
In the film, Scott Lang suggests calling the Avengers to assist.
Fact #3500
Posters for "Pingo Doce," the Brazilian soda company Bruce Banner worked for in The Incredible Hulk can be seen in the San Francisco scenes.
Fact #3501
While Luis is pretending to be a security guard at the Pym building, he is whistling "It's A Small World".
Fact #3502
Ant-Man's helmet is influenced by the helmets of Iron Man and the Autobot Transformer Bumblebee.
Fact #3503
Paul Rudd stated in an interview with New York Times columnist Tom Riddle that he purchased a massive ant farm and watched how the ants worked together. He was so inspired by them that he decided to keep the farm after the filming was complete.
Fact #3504
Paul Rudd is the second Parks and Recreation (2009) cast member to be cast as a main lead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after Chris Pratt as Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
Fact #3505
Paul Rudd and stuntmen wore actual Ant-Man suits while Corey Stoll wore a motion-capture suit as Yellowjacket. This decision was made early on when creating and filming with a real Yellowjacket costume was found to be impractical.
Fact #3506
John Slattery reprises his role as Howard Stark, Tony Stark's father. He last played the role in Iron Man 2 and can be seen when Tony is watching the home videos of his father.
Fact #3507
The toy train that a miniaturized Ant-Man and Yellowjacket fight on is a Bachmann Thomas the Tank Engine with four coaches; Annie, Emily's Composite Coach, Clarabel, and Emily's Brake Coach, respectively.
Fact #3508
Evangeline Lilly and Lee Pace both starred in a Phase Two Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, and both also starred in films from The Hobbit trilogy. Lilly played Tauriel in both The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), while Pace played Thranduil in all three films.
Fact #3509
References Spiderman once near the end of the film. A woman says she knows a man who jumps high, a man who shrinks, and "a guy who can crawl up walls".
Fact #3510 (SPOILERS! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!)
There are 2 after credit scenes. The first shows Dr. Pym giving Hope the Wasp suit, and explains that it is a prototype that he and her mother, the original Wasp, worked on. The second shows Captain America and Falcon finding The Winter Soldier tied up in a secret base. Falcon afterwards talks about calling someone implying Ant Man.
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