Director's original intent....

[chamber-music]

The opening wouldn't have to go as immersive and show it in full. Just give us some hints of what it can do. Like we see guys getting flipped around but we don't actually see how he's doing it.

That is pretty much what it was. Glimpses of ant-man single handedly taking down a compound full of bad guys. You see a light bulb smashed out and then a guard go flying. You see ant-man firing a machine gun taking out bad guys. The scenes seemed to demonstrate just how terrifying a unseen and dangerous opponent ant-man was which backs up what Howard stark said.

Peyton reed loved the prologue but said it didn't really fit with the rest of the movie and he wanted the film to have a shorter running time.

 

[Slushy]

Loki was supposed to be a more sympathetic character in Thor 1. His "Oh, sh**!" look when Thor gets banished as he didn't mean for it to go that far reinforces what Kenneth Branagh had mind. Instead, Loki was edited to look like Scar from The Lion King.

Dr. Selvig was talking about Ant-Man when he said

Let me contact one of my colleagues. He's had some dealings with these people before. I'll e-mail him and maybe he can help.

Loki was supposed to mindcontrol Hulk and force him to fight The Avengers in Part 1. That was part of the reason why they originally did Iron Man's cameo in Incredible Hulk's ending to build up to it. This idea was recycled in Age Of Ultron with Scarlet Witch instead with Hulk just fighting Iron Man.

Regarding Iron Man 2, the original ending had Vanko going to the Expo with just his whip and he holds Pepper Captive. So it's a bit of a shorter confrontation between Iron Man and Vanko. More of a standoff type of thing.

Yeah, that was much better and more realistic than the ending we actually got. They even kept it the missile exploding angle when Iron Man saves Pepper!

 

[Mjölnir]

Loki was supposed to be a more sympathetic character in Thor 1. His "Oh, sh**!" look when Thor gets banished as he didn't mean for it to go that far reinforces what Kenneth Branagh had mind. Instead, Loki was edited to look like Scar from The Lion King.

He does come across as sympathetic in the end when his motivations are laid bare. As for making him look more like Scar, how exactly were they going to avoid that aspect (as far as they went, as Loki is definitely not as purely bad as Scar) seeing how Loki directly tries to kill Thor? That's not something that happens in editing.

 

[MbJ]

Specifically, it was said part of the reason why they changed the ending for Iron Man 2 was because they wanted to leave wiggle room for Whiplash to potentially return. In the finalized movie, his "death" occurs offscreen, meaning he easily could have just taken off his armor and run away.

 

[metaphysician]

Peyton Reed shot a Hank Pym eighties set Bond style prologue that featured him on a mission in Panama stealing microfilm from a war lord played by Jordi Molla. The only images of the prologue are seen in the trailers and in the scene in which Cross reveals he knows Pym was Ant-Man.

Edgar Wright's Ant-Man

David Dastmalchian said Scott Lang's crew was a lot bigger. I think it had 7 or 9 members. Kevin Weisman and Jordan Peele who were attached to the movie were possibly crew members.

Had an original villain dubbed Nano Warrior

Hope had a smaller role and there was no mention of Janet. No Quantum Realm/microverse.

Hank Pym may of died in the films third act instead of being just injured.

Honestly, that kind of sounds terrible. Way too big a crew for them all to have good characterization and personality, generic villain is generic, deemphasized Hope and Janet, dead Hank Pym. . .

If this were Wright's intent, Marvel was 100% right to part ways with him.

 

[Set]

Honestly, that kind of sounds terrible. Way too big a crew for them all to have good characterization and personality, generic villain is generic, deemphasized Hope and Janet, dead Hank Pym. . .

If this were Wright's intent, Marvel was 100% right to part ways with him.

The compound fight sounds pretty awesome, but I do like what we got, and definitely want more Wasp action than even what we got, which sounds like the sort of thing that Wright wasn't interested in.

I vaguely recall reading that Whedon wanted to use the Wasp in the first Avengers movie, but couldn't because of Wright's tentative plans for Pym and / or Janet. Finding out that Wright had no plans for Janet just kind of annoys me, in that it makes the whole missed opportunity kind of senseless. We didn't get Hank or Janet as founding Avengers (and got sad-sack Hawkeye) because Wright didn't plan on doing much (or anything) with them anyway? Ugh.

We did get Black Widow, at least, since I'm not sure the studio would have allowed Whedon to squeeze two women onto the team right at the start. :/

Still, that compound fight is still an option. It's not like we can't see a flashback to Hank and Janet's earlier adventures, at some point during an upcoming movie...

 

[Gabe99]

THR:
How Important Are Directors to Marvel Movies?
The most important vision behind a Marvel Studios production belongs to the studio, not the filmmaker.


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