Awesome Original Opening Scene For ANT-MAN Revealed; Will We See It As A One-Shot?
Ant-Man opens with a flashback which sheds some light on the Marvel Cinematic Universe's past, but it could have been very different! The scrapped sequence - which we have details about here - was shot in its entirety though, so will we see it as a One-Shot movie?
Talking to CinemaBlend, Ant-Man director Peyton Reed has revealed that the movie was originally set to kick off with a very different sort of flashback. The one we got was pretty cool as a young Hank Pym was shown falling out with his fellow founding members of S.H.I.E.L.D. (including Howard Stark and Peggy Carter), but this one...well, we need to see it at some point in the near future!
"It was a standalone sequence, where you really did not see it was Hank Pym," the filmmaker revealed. "He was retrieving some microfilm from, originally Cuban general and then [due to timeline continuity] a Panamanian general… It was designed in early drafts to be almost like a Bond movie standalone scene in the beginning. It was going to show the powers. You never saw Ant-Man. It almost felt like an Invisible Man sequence, and it’s really, really cool." According to the site, Jordi Molla was cast as the villainous General Callisto, a character possibly related to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. drug lord Alejandro Callisto. Reed confirmed that the sequence exists (they shot the whole thing and later decided to cut it because it felt out of place) and that he's suggested to Marvel that it become a One-Shot movie on the Blu-ray release. That would be very cool to see!
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