Trending News|July 06, 2015 11:58 EDT
'Ant-Man' News: Kevin Feige Talks About How the Movie Came About
With Marvel's 'Ant-Man' film gearing up for its highly anticipated premiere, the promotion and press junkets are in full effect.
In one of the more recent press junkets that was held last week in Walt Disney Studios, alof of the cast and crew behind the movie provided some very detailed information.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who's been on a recent roll with dropping details on his upcoming films, spoke on the long road it was to actually produce this film:
"Clearly, Ant-Man in the comics is a founding member of The Avengers. I've said that we have a big giant poster of Avengers #1 has been in all of the various offices we've had over the years, and I love looking at that and checking them off. 'That person's been in a movie now, we made a movie about that person, that person.' Ant-Man and Wasp were the two that had been the longest that we hadn't done anything with, so it was always clear that we were going to assemble all of the Avengers eventually. It also was interesting to do a movie that plays with scale and action in a very different way than we've ever done before, and as I'm sure you've heard me say many, many times, I like it when all of our films are unique and all of them are different and all of them can surprise people. Now this is our twelfth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so it felt time to do something even more unique and more different, which I think these people have."
Peyton Reed, the director for 'Ant-Man' spike on how the film was allowed to be weird:
"There's a high bar with these Marvel movies, and one of the things that I really discovered working with Marvel that I loved was, they have a creative hunger. They really don't want to repeat themselves. They encourage these movies to be really idiosyncratic. One of the things I love about Ant-Man is that it's a pretty weird movie in a great way. It was allowed to be weird and that was fantastic. There was a high bar there, and it kind of energizes everybody...
"It was fun because it's a heist movie at its core, and so instead of saying, 'Here's the guy who's doing this and this and this,' it was like, 'Here are the ants who are doing this, here are the ants who are doing that.' I guarantee that's something you've never seen in a movie before. People talk about the shrinking when they talk about Ant-Man, but it's the other power, the being able to control ants, that's the weirder power that I think is going to really surprise people in the movie. One of the things I liked about doing research was all the things we have the ants do - for example, the fire ants are architects, and they can build little rafts and ladders - they can do that in real life. The kid in me was like, 'Oh, I can go on the internet and look at these ants and they're actually real!' I think that's a really cool aspect of the movie."
'Ant-Man' arrives in theaters on July 17.