ANT-MAN Nabs Old BATMAN/SUPERMAN Release Date

,i was reading an article from CBR saying how Edgar Wrights Ant Man could be Marvels Biggest film to date and they emntion something that i found interesting....



The original Ant-Man, Hank Pym, was one of Marvel's premiere heroes, pre-dating Marvel luminaries Spider-Man, Iron Man and the X-Men. Pym's early adventures, while not played for laughs, were pretty footloose and fancy free with a sense of fun and high adventure. His banter with the Wasp made for fun, fast paced, rollicking superhero tales set in the Cold War. Then, when Ant-Man lost his own feature in "Tales to Astonish," he became a regular player in "The Avengers." There, Marvel creators created story elements and plot developments which moved the character forward rather than keeping him as the outdated Cold War adventurer. While these new elements to Pym's character created such legendary stories as the coming of Ultron, they also made the character a rather tragic figure saddled with intense guilt and emotional baggage.



The creation of Ultron, bouts with mental illness and spousal abuse came to define the character, and it's very difficult to find a modern Hank Pym story that does not reference this trifecta of character flaws. Forget that he was being emotionally controlled when he struck the Wasp; the action came to define Pym as a character. While these elements certainly added layers to Pym's backstory, they also succeeded in completely robbing the character of the airy lightness that helped define the Ant-Man character. The power to shrink (or grow) is fantastical in nature, a power which should be filled with joy and humor -- a tone that came across in the early Pym stories. It's hard to capture that tone when focusing on a character whose defining moments were spousal abuse and accidentally creating robot Hitler.

By settling on Scott Lang as the film's primary hero, Wright has freed himself from having to deal with these elements; instead, the story can focus on the joy of Ant-Man's abilities rather than the past sins of a broken man. "Ant-Man" has the potential to put the fun back into a concept weighed down by decades of melodrama, a formula that can mean huge things for the potential franchise.

So edgar wright definitely seems to be going for the fun tone that hank pyms story used to have before he started to hive his emotional baggage, also edgar wright seems to be homaging the 60s era of comics and making hank pym the cold war spy/adventurer he was ebfore the emotional baggage started to come in

Going against Pan? Pay back to WB for taking their May 2016 date?

People might get mad, but I think Pan can beat this.

Anyways, still some-what looking forward to this.

The War.....

Considering that they've moved this, I don't think they're budging on that May 2016 date.

Might as well move it up, no competition for it to succeed!

Awesome.

also i was watching the fight scenes in the worlds end and they are well shot, fast paced and inventive and that immeditely got me excited to see the fight scenes in Ant Man cause he has said its an action packed movie

Guaranteed #1 spot at the box office, good for Marvel!

Pan is that movie with Hugh Jackman and Garret Hedlund. It's from that director of that Soloist movie with Jamie Foxx and Downey Jr. I'm pretty for sure his directorial list is few are far in between and they're all very artsy fartsy. It won't beat Ant-Man. No way. lmao.

[frick] PAN. Ant-Man better destroy it.

Clever move, I hope that Marvel don't rush the film though.

Mateo- edgar wright has been writing the movie for like 8 years basically,lol,plus i think they have their cast locked down they are just waiting to announce them,i do hope they dont just shoot through it quickly do

Lol That's just adding insult to injury.