Feast your compound eyes on this: a gander at an Ant-Man picture that Marvel Studios will be offering this weekend at Comic-Con.
The illustration is a piece of pre-production concept art specifically made for San Diego Comic-Con, which begins on Wednesday night. I am speculating that Ant-Man will be vigorously showcased on Saturday in Marvel’s constantly amazing presentation.
Ant-Man hasn’t been an easy set up. Production was expected to be moving forward already, but director Edgar Wright surprisingly dropped out of the production after eight years of labor on the venture.
After some weeks of going nowhere, Marvel signed Peyton Reed (Bring It On) to direct the story of a hero who can shrink to miniature size while still packing a heavy punch. Anchorman writer-director Adam McKay was also hired to rewrite the script by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
The original cast of Ant-Man is still in solid, and the film is set to start shooting this August. As can be easily ascertained from this poster: That’s Paul Rudd taking on the central role of Scott Lang, a thief who, according to the comics, stole the technology behind the shrinking suit from the original Ant-Man, Hank Pym.
Michael Douglas is also joining the Marvel universe as Pym, a scientist with Tony Stark-levels of tech savvy. He not only builds a miniaturizing mechanism, but also develops a system for corresponding with small animals. If you are Ant-Man and you are going to be tiny, it’s better to have your peers working with you, than working to make you their lunch.
In spite of the fact that Lang takes the suit to make it simpler to sneak in and get different things of worth, he has a honorable side the motion picture will without a doubt accentuate. Even when you are microscopic, there can be a big reluctant-hero angle within Ant-Man.
In the full picture beneath (made by Andy Park from Marvel’s in-house visual advancement dept), we get a glance at the suit in action, both leading men in profile, and a decent close-up of our legend riding bareback on a winged ant.
