Marvel will end their 2015 schedule on July 17 with
the release of director Peyton Reed's Ant-Man, which means that it might be a
little bit too early start talking about characters and plot details, then
again maybe not. With the amount of movies that are coming out and that have
come out, finding a good opportunity to market a film is difficult so it has
become common practice to start the marketing plan sometimes as far as a year
in advance with in this case a set visit. Last year Entertainment Weekly
visited the Ant-Man set and was able to talk with the cast and crew, whom shed
some light on Marvel's tiniest hero to date.
"He’s not used to being a hero," director Peyton Reed tells the site about Paul
Rudd's character, ex-con Scott Lang. "He’s
more like George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven. He’s a guy trying to create a new
life for himself and find redemption."
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige then adds that "we wanted Scott Lang to have made mistakes that
cost him dearly. But we wanted the audience to be rooting for him despite that.
Paul Rudd can do almost anything and you’re still charmed by him."
Evangeline Lilly plays Hope Van Dyne, the daughter of
Hank Pym the original Ant-Man played by Michael Douglas, and both characters
have been at odds with each other for quite some time.
"She’s not been in her father’s life for a long
time," Lilly
says. "So her arc in the movie—as
Scott’s is with his daughter—is trying to find a relationship."
Besides the all-important story, arcs, and characters,
the shrinking scenes will be the ones making or breaking the film, meaning
making the whole premise of superhero that can shrink to the size of an ant
believable.
"What we’re doing is very different from Honey, I
Shrunk the Kids," Reed
promises. "It’s going to be much more
experiential."
"There are cameras and lenses that make small
areas look like the most epic landscapes," adds co-producer Brad Winderbaum. "Then
we’re shooting motion capture with Paul to insert Ant-Man into those
environments."
Corey Stoll, who is playing the villain Darren Cross
adds that "the director shouts out, ‘And now you’re gonna
get punched on the left side of your face!’ ‘And now there’s a swarm of ants!’
It was a lot of fun."
Speaking of Cross "[Darren
Cross] was this child prodigy that Hank Pym nurtured," says Stoll, whose character also
creates a version of the Ant-Man suit.
"He started to become aware of this fabled
technology that can shrink people to half an inch. Now he's discovered his own
version of that technology-which has a psychotic effect on people if they use
it too much."
Now what is a superhero without a sidekick or friends
to share his adventures with? In the recently released teaser we see Lang being
thrown in prison after some misdeed he just preformed, and it here that he
crosses paths with Dave (Clifford "T.I." Harris), Luis (Michael
Peña), and Kurt (David Dastmalchian).
"We are the team that makes up the Ant-Man
crusaders, if you will," says T.I. of the trio.
What do you think?
Source - EW
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