Ant-Man The Official Ant-Man News and Speculation Thread - Part 2

[Dr. Evil]

I thought he and Hawkeye kind of hated each other.

This gif begs to differ:

 

[terry78]

I guess that was in one the stories where everyone was just dog piling Pym just because.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hoping we get some news soon, been pretty quite on the Marvel front as of late

 

[Bert]

Hoping we get some news soon, been pretty quite on the Marvel front as of late

No joke, filming should start soon, right? Age of Ultron has been filming for a while now and Ant Man only releases a couple months later, so it stands to reason we should be getting more news soon. I think Xmen DOFP is getting all the attention at the moment and after that subsides we will get new info

 

[Dr. Evil]

Hoping we get some news soon, been pretty quite on the Marvel front as of late

I'm expecting a whole slew of announcements from Marvel Studios after the season finale of Agents of SHIELD airs, perhaps by the end of this week.

 

[chamber-music]

I guess that was in one the stories where everyone was just dog piling Pym just because.

What story was that?

I'm expecting a whole slew of announcements from Marvel Studios after the season finale of Agents of SHIELD airs, perhaps by the end of this week.

Yep

I imagine the Disney/Marvel marketing department will release some info when they can get maximum media coverage.

Disney has been focusing on Star Wars info most recently.

 

[Ant-manic]

What story was that?

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http://37.media.tumblr.com/15edb3d9deff00d32c19b5b445ec2738/tumblr_mfatk23Hpf1rnqxkpo1_500.png

 

[chamber-music]

Marvels continued history of Ant-Man feature
http://marvel.com/news/comics/2014/5/9/22492/follow_the_history_of_ant-man_pt_4


People laugh about the controlling ants power but I don't see the big difference between swarming people with ants and swarming people with bats like Batman did in Begins.

 

[Ant-manic]

Marvels continued history of Ant-Man feature
http://marvel.com/news/comics/2014/5/9/22492/follow_the_history_of_ant-man_pt_4


People laugh about the controlling ants power but I don't see the big difference between swarming people with ants and swarming people with bats like Batman did in Begins.

i don't really see the ants as a weapon anyways. they are great for transportation or locating things. but, if you're going to attack someone with bugs, why not go with bees (like Scott did to that guy who kidnapped Cassie)?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Well we got the GotG announcement so how long can we guess before news of this one rolls out?

 

[chamber-music]

i don't really see the ants as a weapon anyways. they are great for transportation or locating things. but, if you're going to attack someone with bugs, why not go with bees (like Scott did to that guy who kidnapped Cassie)?

Scott and Hank usually use them as a distraction but there is 22,000 varieties of ants including venomous ants. Just last month Bolivian villagers used venomous ants to torture two alleged thieves for days. The pair almost died from kidney failure.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/venemous-ants-bolivia-amazon-torture-alleged-thieves

There is no reason why they can't use species beyond the average harmless garden variety. I could picture Pym in particular keeping various varieties of Ant colonies in a lab to study.

 

[Ant-manic]

Scott and Hank usually use them as a distraction but there is 22,000 varieties of ants including venomous ants. Just last month Bolivian villagers used venomous ants to torture two alleged thieves for days. The pair almost died from kidney failure.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/venemous-ants-bolivia-amazon-torture-alleged-thieves

There is no reason why they can't use species beyond the average harmless garden variety. I could picture Pym in particular keeping various varieties of Ant colonies in a lab to study.

I think they should use mechanical ants. both characters are smart enough to build robots. why not robots that look like ants? they'd have a little more offensive capability. plus you wouldn't have to worry about PETA coming after you. there are consequences to disrupting the insect kingdom, afterall.

 

[chamber-music]

Well Edgar was talking nano tech back in the day so it could be cool to see some miniaturized machines.

 

[kosh33]

Is ant-man's helmet restricted to communicating with only ants and other insects or can be talk to spiders and other creatures

 

[Dr. Evil]

Ant Man just got a free plug on Saturday Night Live

 

[chamber-music]

Is ant-man's helmet restricted to communicating with only ants and other insects or can be talk to spiders and other creatures

He can communicate/control a variety of insects providing he gets the right frequency. Wasp took control of a giant sand worm insect creature that looked like something out of Dune or Tremors and had it attack Sentry in a issue of Uncanny Avengers.

 

[Ant-manic]

Well Edgar was talking nano tech back in the day so it could be cool to see some miniaturized machines.

yeah, I remember him mentioning that. I wonder if he'll actually use any of that, though. maybe it's part of the Pym particle delivery system.

 

[Ant-manic]

Ant Man just got a free plug on Saturday Night Live

did Garrett Morris show up again?

 

[Ant-manic]

Is ant-man's helmet restricted to communicating with only ants and other insects or can be talk to spiders and other creatures

depends on the writer. Scott has used it to speak to underwater creatures, insect-like deviants, and even birds.

 

[seishin87]

I think this has a lot of potential. I find it interesting that they say it's gonna be a heist movie. This really is such a cool idea and it opens up a whole another world for adventures, one need only watch any kind of story involving small-scale sized characters in a normal scale sized world. I think I read somewhere that they almost made this in the '80s but Honey I Shrunk the Kids hit first so they shelved the idea. Thinking back to HISTK, remember the lawnmower scene? Imagine an action set piece involving a scale sized battle a top a moving mower, it could evoke Indiana Jones/James Bond style action yet be something we really haven't seen before. Think something like the tank battle in The Last Crusade but atop a giant-scale lawnmower. Lots of seemingly mundane everything items, machines, and settings can become all new stages for some pretty imaginative action set pieces, say for instance something in an office or perhaps a kitchen? Hopefully they get creative with that sorta stuff.

 

[Ant-manic]

I think this has a lot of potential. I find it interesting that they say it's gonna be a heist movie. This really is such a cool idea and it opens up a whole another world for adventures, one need only watch any kind of story involving small-scale sized characters in a normal scale sized world. I think I read somewhere that they almost made this in the '80s but Honey I Shrunk the Kids hit first so they shelved the idea. Thinking back to HISTK, remember the lawnmower scene? Imagine an action set piece involving a scale sized battle a top a moving mower, it could evoke Indiana Jones/James Bond style action yet be something we really haven't seen before. Think something like the tank battle in The Last Crusade but atop a giant-scale lawnmower. Lots of seemingly mundane everything items, machines, and settings can become all new stages for some pretty imaginative action set pieces, say for instance something in an office or perhaps a kitchen? Hopefully they get creative with that sorta stuff.

I'm just hoping that they have at least one scene as cool as Nightcrawler attacking the White House in X2. I'm very curious about how the Pym particles would effect a fighting style. Pym's supposed to be a "badass secret agent." so I can kind of guess where he learned to fight. I wonder if he actively trains Lang. or if the latter will be doing a lot of improvisation.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Hopefully there is news this week.

 

[Sockie]

Hopefully there is news this week.

There probably won't be for a while, with filming apparently being delayed to July. =(

 

[Dr. Evil]

Bill Pope talks Ant Man:

You worked with Edgar Wright on Scott Pilgrim and The World’s End, and the visuals for both of those films were just brilliant. Next, you’re shooting Ant-Man for him. Do you know what camera you’re going to use for that?

POPE: Ant-Man will be shot on film with the Panavision cameras. We’ve shot all of his movies on film. He likes it. I like it. I feel more transported. Interestingly, because it’s not as crisp and all-seeing as digital, I’m actually transported by the graphicness of it into the imagery, emotionally. It’s hard for me to explain why I like film, but that’s the best I can come up with.

Do you think there will ever be a point when everything is only shot on digital, or will there be people who still always use film?

POPE: I think there are people that will shoot it forever. It won’t go away. It’s like vinyl, in that sense. It’s also becoming a prestige thing. There’s a whole generation that thinks of it as a prestige format. I’m glad to see that.

Is there anything you can say to tease what you’re going to do with Ant-Man?

POPE: I think that my non-disclosure agreement with Marvel is pretty darn concrete. There’s something in there about being put in a stockade, and being drawn and quartered.

Read more at http://collider.com/bill-pope-cosmos-ant-man-interview/#Upp7eMr3uwy0ODKJ.99

 

[Son of Coul]

Cool, wasn't sure they'd shoot on film for this at first.