At a Disney Studios press conference, for the upcoming Marvel Studios film, Ant-Man, Kevin Feige answered questions dealing with comedy in the film and Marvel Cinematic Universe, the uniqueness of the film, and how the studio views Ant-Man. When asked about the comedy and various tones in the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically Ant-Man and Avengers: Age of Ultron, and how the different tones affect one another, Feige had this to say:
"I don’t think we set out and said this will be out funniest movie or this is a comedy. I don’t look at any of our films as necessarily one thing, but humor as we always say is a huge element. And when you’re dealing with a concept, people riding ants, people communicating with ants, calling ants Antony, you have to acknowledge to the audience that we know this is funny to a certain extent.
And even when we cast Paul, people thought “Oh, is it a comedy because you cast a comedian.” We cast a guy we thought could be a kick-ass super hero who happens to funny.
In terms of coming off of Ultron, when we put these two films together in this year, it was always knowing that one could be the antidote of the other. Coming off of Ultron, it would be fun to do something that was funny but also dealt on a very different scale, that had the same kind of thrills and action elements but in a very different way. So it’s a flying country in one film and it’s a little girl’s bedroom in another."
Feige also went on to mention the thought behind Ant-Man and related characters being integrated within the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
"Well, you know clearly Ant-Man, in the comics, is a founding member of the Avengers. I’ve said that we have a big, giant poster of the Avengers #1 in all the various offices we’ve had over the years, and I love looking at that and checking off “that person has been in a movie now”, “made a movie about that person”, “and about that person”.
[Ant-Man] and the Wasp are the two that have been the longest that we haven’t done anything with and so it was always clear that we were going to assemble all the Avengers eventually. And it also was interesting to do a movie, that plays with scale and plays with action in a very different way than we have ever done before. And it is, I’m sure you all have heard me say many, many times, I like it when all of our films are unique and all are different and all of them can surprise people.
Now this is our 12th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so it felt time to do something even more unique and even more different, which I think these people managed."
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