Here’s the first Ant-Man trailer, as seen on the debut episode of Marvel’s Agent Carter–which we watched for Hayley Atwell, but this is pretty cool, too. We’re not surprised by the tone of the movie, either. Ant-Man was always treated as kind of a joke in the Marvel Universe. Well, the original character turned out to be an interesting guy, since scientist Hank Pym later went schizo and tried to kill all of the Avengers.
That was after Pym faked his own death at the hands of a cooler version of his own character named Yellowjacket. It’s complicated. The important thing is that Marvel Studios knew it had a challenge in making a movie out of a superhero who shrinks to the size of an ant and also has ants for friends. Furthermore, he can ride on a wasp.
That’s why we’re getting Paul Rudd as cool criminal Scott Lang, who becomes a reluctant superhero when Michael Douglas (as Hank Pym) hands over the Ant-Man costume to the essentially nice guy. Casting an actor like Rudd means that Ant-Man is going to have a sense of humor about itself–as seen by this trailer’s closing line. Check it out, and then get back to watching Hayley Atwell. She’s supposed to be in Ant-Man, too…
