Ant-Man The Official Ant-Man News and Speculation Thread - Part 1

[BatsDC]

I'll be very happy if Rashida gets the role.

If they make her Hank's intern or something and don't change up the Hank/Janet dynamic (except for the relationship of course) that'll be good.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Guy from collider tweeted this

final ANT-MAN bit...my sources tell me Rashida Jones and Bryce Dallas Howard are NOT up for a role as female lead.
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) January 14, 2014​

 

[KnightGambit]

Guy from collider tweeted this

I saw that >.>

This is getting ridiculous. Variety says one and Collider says something else.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Yeah, it's crazy. He also says this:

Can confirm Michael Pena might do ANT-MAN. Around New Years I talked to him at a bar for an hour about the role & Edgar Wright. He's a geek.
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) January 14, 2014

https://***********/colliderfrosty/statuses/423200156847071232 ​

 

[TeeKay]

I'm starting to think Janet will be just Hank's younger lab assistant, she won't be his love interest.

 

[Suzanne78]

MOTHERF****!!

I really hope that the Collider tweet about Jones not being up for Ant-Man are false. WAY TO GET MY HOPES UP, SPECULATION THREAD AND TWITTER!!

 

[KnightGambit]

Deadline/The Hollywood Reporter also said Johnny Depp isnt up for Doc Strange. So much missinformation going around.

 

[TeeKay]

 

[BatsDC]

I'm more inclined to believe Variety over Collider

 

[KnightGambit]

I'm more inclined to believe Variety over Collider

Agreed.

 

[Suzanne78]

I will believe them until the harsh light of reality punches me in my Rashida Jones-loving heart.

I'm hoping the female is Jan, I don't even care who it is at this point (RASHIDA! Or Lucy Liu/Nicole Beharie/Lynne Greenwood…) I'd love a WOC, but I'll take whomever IF I JUST GET JANET VAN DYNE!

Rashida Jones though…

 

[smashmode]

guy from collider tweeted this

nooooo

 

[smashmode]

Jones not getting this role will be bigger for me than Ronan not getting Scarlet Witch.

 

[Suzanne78]

I know! I totally have her as Jan in all the fanart-that-will-never-be-done in my head.

Well, really, it's between her, Liu, and Beharie. But it's mostly Jones.

 

[KnightGambit]

I will believe them until the harsh light of reality punches me in my Rashida Jones-loving heart.

I'm hoping the female is Jan, I don't even care who it is at this point (RASHIDA! Or Lucy Liu/Nicole Beharie/Lynne Greenwood…) I'd love a WOC, but I'll take whomever IF I JUST GET JANET VAN DYNE!

Rashida Jones though…

Kills me to xD We just will have to wait for official announcement

 

[smashmode]

From Bleedingcool:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01...ut-as-janet-van-dyne-hank-pyms-daughter-both/

I’ve been told that the female lead of this film is the daughter of the second male lead. In light of the last day’s news, that pretty clearly marks her out as the offspring of Hank Pym.

Wasp is Pym's daughter, pairs up with Scott Lang Ant-Man to kick butt in Avengers 3.

 

[chamber-music]

Rashida Jones getting a role on this might depend on if her NBC pilot Claws gets picked up.

 

[smashmode]

If I'm Rashida Jones, I would think a multi-film arc on a MCU movie would take preference.

 

[Sawyer]

From Bleedingcool:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01...ut-as-janet-van-dyne-hank-pyms-daughter-both/




Wasp is Pym's daughter, pairs up with Scott Lang Ant-Man to kick butt in Avengers 3.

Nerd rage kicks off in 3... 2... 1...

 

[TeeKay]

From Bleedingcool:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01...ut-as-janet-van-dyne-hank-pyms-daughter-both/




Wasp is Pym's daughter, pairs up with Scott Lang Ant-Man to kick butt in Avengers 3.

Ha! Knew it! Either Janet was going to be Pym's daughter or his younger lab assistant.

 

[smashmode]

Nerd rage kicks off in 3... 2... 1...

You have 2 issues here. Either you get a old Wasp that no longer kicks ass, or you get a Wasp that is Pym's daughter so that she can kick ass with new Ant-Man.

What would make people rage more? lol.

 

[smashmode]

OR maybe, Daughter WASP is just the Daughter of the Real retired Wasp.

 

[cph9fa]

Here's a thought: If Janet is Hank & Maria's daughter, and Maria's dead, then Hank probably sees Janet as all he has left. When Lang mentions his own daughter is dying, that could be what brings them together to cooperate.

 

[TeeKay]

More on Pena's role on the film...

UPDATE: According sources of This Is Infamous, Peña will play a character known as a present-time Castillo, one of two villains in Ant-Man. "While it took awhile to piece together the timeline, our understanding is that Castillo will be the film’s villain in the beginning, which takes place in the 1960s. It is here that we’ll get our introduction to Ant-Man – the Hank Pym version – which Marvel readers will get from the character’s work as a spy fighting against Communism. From there, Ant-Man will move into the modern era, with a an aging Pym, recently filled by Michael Douglas, and the beginning of the Scott Lang story arc, which will eventually get Scott Lang in as Ant-Man. Lang will encounter this second villain along the way, who will serve as his primary villain, but what we’re hearing is that Peña will wind up playing a larger role as the film develops, much more than just the opening to establish Ant-Man."

 

[Sockie]

Apparently, he's going to be a Fidel Castro expy.