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[DrCosmic]

... you're right. MODOK would work as well. And if it's the 60s spy thing, we can be pretty sure it'll be AIM.

 

[Dethklokx7]

one way i could see MODOK redone is instead of a big head its a big tv screen with a "fish eye lense" kinda effect. I only say this because Id hate to see another hector hammond lol

 

[CoulsonFan]

A few people have seen early screenings of avengers and I wonder if there is ANY hint or easter egg to Pym or Janet? Maybe that last minute scene recently shot has some relation

Feige emphasized recently that that was "not a scene." I take that to mean it could just be a shot or a couple of shots that might get inserted into an existing scene. As fun as it is to imagine there's some super secret casting surprise there, it sounds like that's not the case.

one way i could see MODOK redone is instead of a big head its a big tv screen with a "fish eye lense" kinda effect. I only say this because Id hate to see another hector hammond lol

I would not worry about anything in these Marvel movies getting as screwed up as Green Lantern was. They already do have a "head in a TV" character, if Arnim Zola comes back.

 

[Dethklokx7]

lol whoops forgot about zola lol well MODOK is one of those guys that can be a REAL problem translating to the big screen

 

[Endeavor]

A few people have seen early screenings of avengers and I wonder if there is ANY hint or easter egg to Pym or Janet? Maybe that last minute scene recently shot has some relation

No Hank or Janet easter egg in the movie at all.

 

[DrCosmic]

MODOK is actually pretty easy to translate in an Ant-Man movie. They're both scientists, and both affected by Pym particles. In Tarleton (MODOK's) case, his head blew up and his body shrank, and now he needs a harness to survive, but he's also a lot smarter and more dangerous now. He fits into an Ant-Man movie quite well, imho.

And you can build Ultron to be either the twist villain or the villain for Avengers or both. I could see that.

 

[Dethklokx7]

what i meant is its hard to make a big headed villian look threatning on screen. I mean id like to see MODOK and Ultron as a build up. Too bad no Pym or Janet reference...oh well they can always add them later

 

[Mr. Immortal]

MODOK!? No, no, no, no, no, no and no. Please don't encourage the same mistake as Green Lantern.

The percentage of people that want to look at some big headed abomination is astronomically low. Crazy idea, but visuals in a movie are pretty important. A villain that looks like the titular character from Hey Arnold in real life is not menacing, cool, or visually striking. It's stupid.

Luckily, I know Marvel Studios has enough sense to never go down that road so we can all forget that MODOK was ever brought up.

 

[CoulsonFan]

Green Lantern had a host of problems and the premise that a guy had a big head was not key among them.

MODOK is actually pretty easy to translate in an Ant-Man movie. They're both scientists, and both affected by Pym particles. In Tarleton (MODOK's) case, his head blew up and his body shrank, and now he needs a harness to survive, but he's also a lot smarter and more dangerous now.

That's pretty good, by the way.

 

[MarvelKnight]

what i meant is its hard to make a big headed villian look threatning on screen. I mean id like to see MODOK and Ultron as a build up. Too bad no Pym or Janet reference...oh well they can always add them later

I'm sure with today's tech and the smart people working on these movies that they can adapt MODOK to look more fierce/grotesque/evil-looking than his somewhat silly comic-book self.

 

[Mr. Immortal]

Green Lantern had a host of problems and the premise that a guy had a big head was not key among them.

It really was. Approach this from someone who's going to this movie purely for super heroics, an awesome villain, and good fights. Which I would say a large portion of the audience actually IS attending the movie for. If you had to point a finger at one single thing in TDK that drew enormous success, it wasn't the dark, convoluted story line or anything like that. We all know it was the scene chewing villain monologues. All anyone could talk about was Joker before and after. Villains are important for a casual viewer. Having a guy with a disgusting big head and a CG mass of **** as villains were critical in GL's failure.

 

[CoulsonFan]

It really was. Approach this from someone who's going to this movie purely for super heroics, an awesome villain, and good fights. Which I would say a large portion of the audience actually IS attending the movie for. If you had to point a finger at one single thing in TDK that drew enormous success, it wasn't the dark, convoluted story line or anything like that. We all know it was the scene chewing villain monologues. All anyone could talk about was Joker before and after. Villains are important for a casual viewer. Having a guy with a disgusting big head and a CG mass of **** as villains were critical in GL's failure.

Hector Hammond was their attempt to write in a grim, sadistic "Joker" character. That script should have focused exclusively on extraterrestrial threats. That was their shot at differentiating Lantern from every other superhero property. You got bogged down in all this business about an evil psychic guy when you should have been zipping around Oa and learning more about the Corps and the cosmos. Instead of at least swapping evil psychic guy for a space barbarian, a space bug, anything from space, they just turned him into a big, evil cloud man.

None of that has anything to do with the fact that a guy's head was big.

What is it with clouds, by the way? Ang Lee's Hulk and the second Fantastic Four. When they're throwing out unique concepts and designs from the comics in favor of something bland, "evil CG clouds" are the first place they turn. Formless, intangible masses. They represent the absence of ideas.

 

[DrCosmic]

Easy there. They represent the unknowable, or something beyond our ability to conceive and quantify. They are a direct result of the shying away from 'invasion of the 50 foot monster' as something you can pass off as a mind blowing cosmic concept. I agree, someone should have learned their lesson by now though. The unknowable cloud villain is 0 for 3.

MODOK, if he was done live action, would be disgusting and creepy... a movie monster in a superhero movie, basically, something more like this:

 

[MarvelKnight]

I like it, Just a head would be perfect.

 

[Dethklokx7]

That design is actually pretty good.

 

[Endeavor]

Best MODOK interpretation so far.

 

[FVD]

Michael C. Hall as Hank and Autumn Reeser as Jan??? HELL YES I LOVE IT!!!!

Dreams are for free though but they both are stunning choices if you ask me.

Oh and those MODOK art impressions are bloody fantastic too. Believable enough for the Silver Screen methinks.

 

[chiefchirpa]

I prefer bigger name like Bradley Cooper as Ant Man. And some cheap good young actress as the Wasp.

Modok is also fine as the antagonist, this is an Edgar Wright and zanier Marvel film after all likened to an MCU Fantastic Four. Ant Man goon squad should be AIM.

 

[scatterax]

cooper's not the antman type. he's too similar to a younger tony stark.

 

[psylockolussus]

Easy there. They represent the unknowable, or something beyond our ability to conceive and quantify. They are a direct result of the shying away from 'invasion of the 50 foot monster' as something you can pass off as a mind blowing cosmic concept. I agree, someone should have learned their lesson by now though. The unknowable cloud villain is 0 for 3.

MODOK, if he was done live action, would be disgusting and creepy... a movie monster in a superhero movie, basically, something more like this:

Wow that picture looks good! Where did you get that? t:

 

[scatterax]

the only time a cloud villain has ever worked was when tetsuo turned in to (what i called) that flesh cloud at the end of akira, but i don't even think that counts.

 

[DrCosmic]

Yeah, Cooper's too cool to be Pym, honestly.
A cloud villain worked on the TV LOST very well, so I guess it's 1/4 instead of 0 for 3.
I got the picture from a google image search. Can't find it anymore.

 

[The Watcher]

Patrick Wilson, as others have said, would be perfect as Hank. He has the looks, the chops, and he's that sort of choice Marvel might go with.

 

[psylockolussus]

I want Nathan Fillion to play Ant-Man .

 

[BatsDC]

I'd like Fillion or Cooper, they're my top two choices for Pym. Personally I'd rather have Patrick Wilson play somebody else... Reed Richards, maybe.