Peyton Reed Teases Microverse In ANT-MAN And Reveals His And Edgar Wright's Contributions
With a SPOILER WARNING, hit the jump and check out what Ant-Man director Peyton Reed says he brought to the upcoming Marvel movie, as well as what remained from Edgar Wright's script(s).
Early impressions of Marvel's upcoming Ant-Man have praised the movie for having former director Edgar Wright's fingerprints all over it, despite it ultimately being helmed by Yes Man's Peyton Reed. However, during an interview with Uproxx, Reed had finally detailed his and writer Adam McKay's contributions to Ant-Man, and what remained after Wright exited the production. In doing so, the filmmaker drops somewhat of a spoiler regarding the movie's third act, so you've been warned.
Reed was then asked what exactly did he bring to Ant-Man. "Well, I came on about the same time that Adam McKay and Rudd were doing rewrites," he explained. "And I’ve known McKay for some time and we talked on the phone and we were both really jazzed about the idea of, in the third act, in a movie in which we will have seen shrinking a bunch, let’s take it even further in the third act and introduce what, in the comics, was the microverse, in what we call the quantum realm. Creating this moment of self-sacrifice where he has to go into the quantum realm to save his daughter, that was something that was never in those drafts that Adam and I brought to it."
When it was mentioned that the microverse sequence will tease how Ant-Man will fit with the other Marvel characters, Peyton Reed elaborated more on what he brought to the movie. "I love the idea, too," he said of the sequence. "I was banging this drum from the beginning of like here’s the things I want of Ant-Man: I want it to be under two hours, I want it to be tight, I want it to be funny, I want it to be kinetic and move to the rhythms of a heist movie. And it had to work for someone who hasn’t seen another Marvel movie or read another Marvel comic. There were going to be elements of it that, if you know, it will enhance the experience, but it had to work as a standalone thing. That, to me, worked in a really organic way. It wasn’t like, 'Oh, let’s put him up against this other guy.' It served a plot point; a purpose in our story. But the other things that we really brought to it, when we started working with Michael Pena, if Scott’s going to make this decision to turn back to a life of crime and comes in and says, 'Tell me about that tip,' I love the idea of we created these 'tip montages.' That was something that never existed in the original drafts and I wanted to bring to it. And the production writers at the time, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, had been working with Paul, so they wrote those tip montages, which we then reprise at the end to tee up how the movie ends." For the full interview, head over to Uproxx.
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. Directed by Peyton Reed, Ant-Man stars Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, David Dastmalchian, Michael Pena, Bobby Cannavale, Abby Ryder Fortson, Judy Greer, Wood Harris John Slattery and Gregg Turkington with multi-hyphenate T.I., and the film opens July 17, 2015