With Marvel fans clambering for more Avengers action after the summer blockbuster broke box office records, they'll have to turn to Ant-Man to tide them over for now. In a recent podcast with Empire magazine, Edgar Wright stated, "So as not to jinx things, I am going to remain spectacularly vague on this. Let's just say I hope to shoot some Ant-man and World's End this year."
The director also teased a possible poster on his twitter.
Simple, but it gets its point across.
Upon his discovery of the subatomic "pym particles," Dr. Henry Pym managed to trap the particles and was able to use them in serums that could shrink him to the size of an insect, and later swell to gigantic proportions. He also developed a helmet that enables him to communicate with and control ants as the titular Ant-Man. He became invovled with the Avengers purely by accident. He was caught up in a plan by Thor's brother Loki, to draw out his thunder god brother. After the team united together to bring down the Asgardian god of mischief, Pym noted how well they all worked together. It was Pym's wife who even suggested the naming them The Avengers.
Yea...While the man is a genius, and has laid claim to the mantle of several different heroes (Ant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, etc.), he's not really husband of the year material. The woman taking the brunt of the beating in the pictures above? That's the good doctor's wife Janet, AKA The Avenger's own Wasp.
Like Tony Stark's alcoholism (insert Robert Downey Jr. joke here), Ant Man is not without his own character flaws, though it remains to be seen just how well this could transfer over to the big screen, if at all. As for the villain, this is only speculation, but Pym's robotic creation Ultron makes sense. One of the Avengers deadliest foes, Ultron only came into being by Pym's own hand. The villain was responsible for the creation of Vision, who would later go on to join the Avengers, which opens up the possibility for an addition to the Avengers roster for the film's highly anticipated sequel.
A script has already been turned in by writer Joe Cornish, but other developments remain to be seen.