Today, unfortunate though the case may be, words only take one so far. Especially with the savvy and media hungry audience of many of today's movies, particularly comic books. The medium wouldn't be what it is without the visual aspect (wow, I'm so poignant).
This is why the description that went out online describing Edgar Wright's test footage at comic con was so bittersweet. Seen by nary a few people, all we had to go on were words.
Here's Germain Lussier of Slashfilm's description:
"The footage begins in a long, Matrix style hallway with two Matrix style agents. The camera moves down the hall, through a grate, and we see a tiny man standing behind the grate: Ant-Man. He jumps through and starts running at them. Of course, they don't see him. He then pops up into real size, they start shooting, he gets small again, jumps, runs down the shaft of the gun, jumps up and punches the guy in the face, shaking the face in slow motion. With that guy done, Ant-Man gets big again, flips the other agent over....okay, honestly by this point I was kind of freaking out and it gets fuzzy. I do know that Ant-Man takes care of business, is about to jump through another grate when the elevator pings, and he gets on it.
The way Wright shot this, with the silence of a small man running in a big hall, the slow motion, the elevator, it had a totally different vibe from the other Marvel films. It was much more like something you'd recognize from Hot Fuzz. Whether or not that'll carryover remains to be seen though. Wright said the script, which he's been working on since 2006 ("the Terrance Malick approach" he said) is a mix of the silver age and contemporary Ant-Man. It's action packed and "a nod to the original tales."
The suit Ant-Man wears was described by Wright as "practical" and sort of looked like a G.I. Joe military exoskeleton. His face is entirely covered with some sort of apparatus on his mouth. He looks really cool. Very real world. A truly good fit inside the current Marvel Universe."
While I thank Lussier and others who did what they could do etch out a visual, it only left me wanting more. And I wasn't the only one. I humbly bow before deviantart user SamuraiJack, who threw together this storyboard slideshow based on the description. Check it out below!
As Marvel hasn't released the footage yet (they have said they will eventually), this will have to hold us all over for now. We'll let you know once the footage is available though. If you're unfamiliar with the good doctor Pym, you can read a bit more about him here.