Kevin Feige over Peyton Reed als regisseur van Ant-Man
Eerder besloot Edgar Wright uit de productie van Marvel Studios‘ Ant-Man te stappen. De studio vond een vervanger in Peyton Reed. Marvel studiohoofd Kevin Feige vertelt waarom er voor Reed gekozen is:
“Peyton is someone that I’ve been a fan of for a long time. People may not remember, though probably your readers remember, that he was attached to Fantastic Four more than 10 years ago. We spent a lot of time together… and I got along with Peyton very, very well and he had awesome ideas and an awesome vision for the movie, and for various reasons he ended up leaving that movie…He’s come in to meet on a lot of our movies over the years, in particular Guardians. He had a lot of awesome things to say on Guardians. But James [Gunn] had a slightly more solid take that was of interest to us. But Peyton was always on our lists, and so when this happened and Edgar [Wright] said ‘Not for me’ we met with a handful of people, but Peyton was always one that I thought would be great.”
Hij vervolgde:
“It was not a slam-dunk that he would just step into it and do it. He wanted to be sure that he was wasn’t just inheriting something or following someone else’s lead. Or wasn’t inheriting something that the evil studio had watered down to be something bad. I kept saying, ‘You can either read what’s online, or come in and talk to us and look at all this stuff.’ He looked at everything, he talked with us, and he said ‘Number one, I agree with the direction you’re going in. And number two, I can add to it.’ And he has – the movie is in as good a shape as it’s ever been right now.”
Dokter Hank Pym heeft een stof ontwikkeld waardoor hij materie enorm kan verkleinen en gelijktijdig het veel meer kracht kan geven. Hij verwerkt dit in een speciaal pak en de militaire potentie wordt snel duidelijk. Pym wil daar echter niets van weten maar wordt door zijn assistent Darren Cross buitenspel gezet. Pym moet de hulp inroepen van de wat sullige inbreker Scott Lang om door middel van het spectaculaire Ant-man pak de duistere plannen van Cross te verijdelen.
Ant-Man wordt geregisseerd door Peyton Reed. De hoofdrollen in de film worden gespeeld door Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Judy Greer, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Martin Donovan, Wood Harris, John Slattery, Gregg Turkington, Abby Ryder Fortson, David Dastmalchian en T.I. Peyton. Het scenario is geschreven door Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay en Paul Rudd. Ant-Man draait vanaf 23 juli 2015 in de bioscoop.