Having been spying on Cross after discovering his intentions, Hope and Pym train Lang to fight and to control ants. Pym, who manipulated Lang through an unknowing Luis into stealing the suit as a test, wants Lang to become the new Ant-Man to steal the Yellowjacket from Cross. Pym, the homeowner, visits Lang in jail and smuggles the suit into his cell to help him break out. Terrified by the experience, he returns the suit to the house, but is arrested on the way out. After trying the suit on, Lang accidentally shrinks himself to the size of an insect. Lang breaks into a house and cracks its safe, but only finds what he believes to be an old motorcycle suit, which he takes home. Unable to hold down a job because of his criminal record, Lang agrees to join Luis' crew and commit a burglary. Lang visits his daughter Cassie unannounced and is chastised by his former wife Maggie and her police-detective fiancé, Paxton, for not providing child support. Upon his release from prison, well-meaning thief Scott Lang moves in with his old cellmate, Luis. Cross is close to perfecting a shrinking suit of his own, the Yellowjacket, which horrifies Pym. In the present day, Pym's estranged daughter, Hope van Dyne, and former protégé, Darren Cross, have forced him out of his company, Pym Technologies. Believing the technology would be dangerous if replicated, Pym vows to hide it for as long as he lives. after discovering their attempt to replicate his Ant-Man shrinking technology. In 1989, scientist Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D. ![]() Two sequels have been released: Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). It grossed more than $519 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, who generally welcomed the film's smaller stakes than other MCU films, as well as its cast (particularly Rudd, Peña, Lilly, and Douglas), humor, and visual effects. Filming took place between August and December 2014 in San Francisco and Metro Atlanta.Īnt-Man held its world premiere in Los Angeles on June 29, 2015, and was released in the United States on July 17, as the final film in Phase Two of the MCU. The following month, Reed was brought in to replace Wright, while McKay was hired to contribute to the script with Rudd. In May 2014, Wright left the project citing creative differences, though he still received screenplay and story credits with Cornish. Casting began in December 2013, with the hiring of Rudd to play Lang. Pre-production began in October 2013 after being put on hold so that Wright could complete The World's End. By April 2011, Wright and Cornish had completed three drafts of the script and Wright shot test footage for the film in July 2012. In the film, Lang must help defend Pym's Ant-Man shrinking technology and plot a heist with worldwide ramifications.ĭevelopment of Ant-Man began in April 2006 with the hiring of Wright to direct and co-write with Cornish. It stars Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man alongside Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip "T.I." Harris, Anthony Mackie, Wood Harris, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, David Dastmalchian, and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym. The film was directed by Peyton Reed from a screenplay by the writing teams of Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, and Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. ![]() ![]() ![]() Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 12th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Ant-Man is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name: Scott Lang and Hank Pym.
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