Ant-Man
Heroes don't get any bigger.
Ant-Man (2015)
Production
Budget
$130 000 000
Revenue
$519 311 965
Director
Scenario
Edgar Wright
Author
Composer
Producer
Actors
Paul Rudd
Scott Lang / Ant-Man
Michael Douglas
Dr. Hank Pym
Evangeline Lilly
Hope van Dyne
Corey Stoll
Darren Cross / Yellowjacket
Bobby Cannavale
Paxton
Anthony Mackie
Sam Wilson / Falcon
Judy Greer
Maggie Lang
Abby Ryder Fortson
Cassie Lang
Short description
Ant-Man centers on Scott Lang, a thief who gains the ability to shrink while growing stronger when he puts on a suit built by the scientist Hank Pym. Pym, who developed technology that changes the size of living things, recruits Lang to keep that technology out of the hands of Darren Cross, a former protégé whose own armored suit makes him a considerable threat. To stop him, the pair plan a break-in rather than a battle, and Lang has to learn to control the suit and the insects he can command.
Peyton Reed directed the film, the sixth in his filmography after The Love Bug, Bring It On, Down with Love, The Break-Up and Yes Man, and the first of three Ant-Man films he made with the character. Paul Rudd stars as Lang and shares screenplay credit with Edgar Wright and Adam McKay; Kevin Feige produced. Michael Douglas plays Pym, Evangeline Lilly plays Hope van Dyne, Corey Stoll plays Cross, and Bobby Cannavale and Anthony Mackie appear in supporting roles. Roughly seventy cast members and three hundred and seventy crew members are credited.
Released in 2015 and running 117 minutes, the film cost about 130 million dollars and took in around 519 million dollars worldwide. Audiences rate it 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb from some 776,000 votes and 7.1 out of 10 on TMDB from roughly 21,000 votes, while critics give it 6.9 out of 10 across 339 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming for the Marvel film "Ant-Man" took place in San Francisco, and many street scenes were shot in the city, such as filming near the Golden Gate Bridge and in the Tenderloin district, scenes with the facade of a Victorian house where Dr. Pym lives. From San Francisco, film production moved to the new Pinewood Studios complex in Atlanta, Georgia. The sets for Dr. Hank Pym’s house were the first sets constructed in a soundstage.
- Inspired by the shooting of miniature scenes, the film crew crafted a "mini-clapperboard" to synchronize picture and sound. The "mini-clapperboard" is an exact copy of a wooden "clapperboard" on which they wrote with chalk.
- As in the other films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, great attention was paid to the details of the interior of Dr. Pym’s Victorian house, from the furniture and fireplace to the stained glass and wall decor. Wallpaper was purchased in limited quantities from a New York store specializing in 1930-40s interiors. The set decorators had to calculate the wallpapering with jeweler's precision so that not a single centimeter of the exclusive material was wasted.
- Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, and Gary Oldman were considered for the role of Hank Pym.
- The film had been in development since the late 1980s. Stan Lee, the creator of 'Ant-Man,' proposed making a film to New Line Entertainment, but they considered the story similar to the plot of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' (1989). As a result, the project languished on the shelf for two decades.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt was considered for the role of Ant-Man.
- At the 59th minute of the film, Pym describes the operation in which Hope's mother died. He mentions that in 1987, they attempted to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile heading for the US, which had been seized by separatists in Kursk. In the next shot, it can be noticed that the Soviet missile is covered in Latin script. Furthermore, intercontinental missiles spend most of their flight in space with the engine off, moving along a ballistic trajectory, rather than flying horizontally within the atmosphere.
- As a child, Peyton Reed was a passionate fan of Marvel comics. In high school, he even drew a pencil drawing of the members of the punk band he was in portrayed as the Avengers from the cover of the first comic about the super-team. Surprisingly, the future director of the film of the same name drew himself as Ant-Man in the image.
- Initially, the film was supposed to focus on the first Ant-Man, Hank Pym. However, the filmmakers believed that Pym's story could be perceived negatively (this character suffered from a split personality), and instead decided to focus on Pym's successor, Scott Lang, while Pym was assigned a secondary role as a mentor.
- Director Edgar Wright, a big fan of Ant-Man, proposed to Marvel in 2003 to make a film about him. Since then, he began working on the film, invited actors, and was close to starting filming. However, in 2014, he left the project due to creative differences between him and Marvel Studios.
- Adrien Brody expressed interest in the role of Ant-Man.
- Rashida Jones was considered for the role of the Wasp, Hank Pym's wife, when the character was still in the script.
- At the 37th minute of the film, when the ants begin a countdown on the floor, Scott rushes to put on his suit at the 9th second. When he finishes dressing in the next shot, the ants are already showing the number 4. Thus, Lang managed to fully equip himself in just 5 seconds.
- Jessica Chastain turned down the lead female role due to scheduling conflicts.
- At the 92nd minute of the film, while Scott is trying to climb back into the helicopter, Darren manages to put on the Yellowjacket suit off-screen in less than half a minute.
- At the 2-minute mark of the film, Pim slams Mitchell's face onto a table, causing his nose to bleed. When Pim leaves, there is no trace of blood left under Mitchell's nose.
- At the 3-minute mark of the film, a prisoner hits Scott in the face, striking him in the cheekbone area. In one of the following shots, Scott's eyebrow begins to bleed, even though the prisoner's fist hit a different spot.
- The helmets of Iron Man and the Transformer Bumblebee served as inspirational factors in creating the Ant-Man helmet.
- At the 7-minute mark of the film, as Scott approaches the hotel entrance, a bicycle can be seen on the sidewalk by the parking meter. In the next shot, when Lang opens the door and enters the building, the previously leaned bicycle disappears.
- Miniature items located throughout the house tell about Dr. Pym’s adventures when he himself was Ant-Man, and hint at how many experiments on reducing inanimate objects Hank Pym carried out before moving on to living organisms.
- Costume designer Sammy Sheldon and headwear designer Ivo Coveney, along with a team of artists, created 13 suits, 17 helmets, 17 belts, 8 pairs of gloves, 6 pairs of shoes, 15 backpacks, 15 helmet liners, and 14 collars for Ant-Man. Each helmet consists of 54 parts and 10 LED indicators. Adding the details of the helmet liner, each helmet is made of more than 60 individual parts.
- At the 68th minute of the film, when Darren approaches Pym, it is clearly visible that he is wearing black gloves. In one of the following shots, when Cross places his hand on Pym's shoulder, the glove is gone.
- At the 94th minute of the film, when Scott manages to briefly neutralize Yellowjacket by knocking him into an electric fly swatter, Paxton and Gale appear in the yard. It is unclear how they arrived at the battle site so quickly, as they were originally chasing the helicopter and had no way of knowing that the shrunken Lang and Cross were inside a suitcase that had fallen into the yard of a random house.
- Adam McKay, Ruben Fleischer, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Nicholas Stoller, Michael Dowse and David Wain were considered as directors.
- At the 75th minute of the film, Scott jumps into a storm drain grate and, after entering the building, emerges from a water supply faucet. It is unclear how he managed to do this, as the sewage and water supply systems are not connected.
- Patrick Wilson was potentially cast in this film but had to leave the project due to scheduling conflicts.
- At the 51st minute of the film, in the official Russian dub, Scott tells Hope that he spent 2 years in prison. However, at the 6th minute, Dale, Lang's boss, states that he spent 3 years in San Quentin prison.
- At the 21-minute mark of the film, while Scott is sitting in the van, a member of the film crew can be seen in the reflection of the side rearview mirror.
- At the 45th minute of the film, Paxton's phone plays a notification sound. However, when the man picks up the smartphone, the silent mode icon can be seen in the status bar at the top of the screen.
- Scenes of Ant-Man shrinking sequentially were created using a combination of macro photography, i.e., shot in extreme close-up, and motion capture of actors and stunt performers. A miniature set was created for each frame.
- At the 98th minute of the film, a toy train runs over Darren and derails. In the next shot, the train is already lying on the tracks behind the Yellow Jacket.
- In the film, Scott Lang's best friend, Luis, drives a beat-up brown van. Throughout the film, the van is modified, and the different models were jokingly referred to by the props team as “Mark 1,” “Mark 2,” and “Mark 3,” as a playful nod to Iron Man’s suit designations. Luis is most proud of the “Mark 1” model, despite it being the most dilapidated. “Mark 2” is a model for thieves with enlarging mirrors to better see what’s happening around the van, and side steps to easily jump into the moving van. The “Mark 3” model is prepared for the robbery of Pym Technologies and looks like a water service vehicle.
- At the 98th minute of the film, Scott bats away a toy train thrown at him, and it lands on the windowsill. When Lang hits the train with the enlarging disc, the train is already in a slightly different position, hanging off the windowsill.
- At the 40th minute of the film, when Scott wakes up and talks to Hope, it is clearly visible that there is nothing on the carpet next to the bed. In the next shot, as he prepares to get out of bed, a multitude of ants suddenly appear on the floor.
- The wig worn by Michael Douglas in the scene where he plays young Hank Pym, the actor bought for a film about President Reagan that he was planning to shoot.
- At the 74th minute of the film, when Scott checks the plan and asks Luis about his role, the top button of Luis's shirt is initially undone. After a cut, when Luis begins to justify his talkativeness, the button is suddenly fastened.
- Each Ant-Man suit incorporates 159 LED indicators that are controlled remotely. All electronic circuits and power for the indicators are housed in a backpack. The entire suit, including gloves and belt, is illuminated.
- At the 27-minute mark of the film, Scott hides around a corner, waiting for the water and liquid nitrogen to take effect on the vault door. When the bolts flying out of the vault hit the suspended blanket, the hiding Lang disappears between shots.
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