While
at SDCC, EW got a chance to query the cast and director of Marvel's
upcoming Ant-Man adaptation. Once again, Michael Douglas let some
bits of info out, and revealed that his wife Janet will be in the
movie, but dies in some sort of accident. Douglas also revealed that:
"My
name is Dr. Henry Pym. I’m an entomologist. I’m also a physicist
and I discovered in 1963, a way, a serum to reduce a human being to
the size of ant maintaining the strength. Not only that, but I was
able to find a way to communicate with the ants. But unfortunately
during this process, a tragic personal accident happened with my
wife, my daughter, Evangeline, Hope. So I’ve had to pass my powers
and strengths onto a mentor."
The mentor is of course Scott Lang played by Paul Rudd, and Douglas had this to say about why he hires him to work as the new Ant-Man. "Because my partner, my partner, Corey over there, f–ked me good. Darren Cross, my partner, my mentor, my nemesis, has taken my company and taken it in a different direction. I need help, I desperately need help. I need someone who’s a master thief, someone with a brilliant mind, and somebody who can pull off a really great heist."
In
addition, Marvel revealed that Evangeline Lilly will play Hope Pym,
and not Hope Van Dyne like it was revealed at SDCC. Fans of the MC2
alternate universe will know the Hope Pym name, as the villainous Red
Queen.
Hope
turns to the Red Queen upon the death of her parents (Hank and
Janet), which she blames the Avengers for. Thought it would be cool
to see this play out on screen, it's more likely that Lilly, will
play the new Wasp, a character that Joss Whedon had at one point
included in an early draft of The Avengers.
Evangeline
Lilly and Corey Stoll have found their way into the Marvel Cinematic
Universe as the female lead and antagonist, respectively, in Marvel’s
“Ant-Man,” in theaters July 17, 2015!
Lilly
will play Hope Pym, the daughter of Hank Pym, while Stoll will play
Darren Cross, a.k.a. Yellowjacket, the antagonist of the film. The
two join stars Paul Rudd (Scott Lang) and Michael Douglas (Hank Pym),
along with director Peyton Reed, for the size-changing super hero’s
first cinematic adventure.
“We’ve
been fans of Evangeline for years, and couldn’t be more pleased
that she’s agreed to join us on Ant-Man’s journey to the big
screen,” said Marvel’s Kevin Feige. “We look forward to
audiences learning more about her character when she joins forces
with Hank Pym and Scott Lang in 2015.
"Corey
brings depth to every role he plays,” continued Feige. “As a
major part of the Ant-Man ensemble, we all wanted an actor who could
be both cunning and sympathetic, and help create a character as
dynamic as Marvel's best antagonists."
Most
recently, Lilly impressed audiences around the world with her
portrayal of the willful and skilled Elfin archer Tauriel in Peter
Jackson’s second installment of the Hobbit trilogy, “The Hobbit:
Desolation of Smaug,” and will once again reprise the role in “The
Hobbit: There and Back Again” later this year. Lilly was first
introduced to audiences, who turned into die-hard fans, when she
played Kate Austen for the entire length of ABC’s international hit
series “Lost,” for which she also received a Golden Globe
nomination and won a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
Stoll,
celebrated for his Golden Globe-nominated turn as Rep. Peter Russo in
"House of Cards" on Netflix, recently appeared in
"Non-Stop," which opened in first place at the box office
earlier this year. The actor currently stars in “The Strain” on
FX, the series premiere of which earned eight million viewers, and
will next appear in Showtime’s award-winning “Homeland” series.
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