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Hey, ANT-MAN... you got red on you...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. It seems that IGN has gotten ahold of a rumor that noneother than Edgar Wright, the mad little hatter behind SPACED and SHAUN OF THE DEAD, is the front-runner to direct ANT-MAN for Marvel. Of course, he'd be making the film a comedy, not taking it seriously, but how seriously can you take a film centered on ANT-MAN?
Moriarty claimed to know something about this project so I tried to get info out of him and he just giggled and made that "this little" hand gesture with his thumb and forefinger close together. I dug into a few other places and found that it does seem to be accurate that Wright is a fan of ANT-MAN as a character and that he actually wrote a treatment for his ANT-MAN film before directing SHAUN OF THE DEAD. So, IGN probably has the right bead on this one. Good on 'em!
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It seems as if they are starting to dig deep to get characters from the Marvel Universe. What about Giant Man???
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I suppose there's a glimmer of hope if Edgar Wright is onboard. But do we really want an Ant-Man movie?
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Ant-Man is Hank Pym, aka Giant Man. I think that it could be cool if they do this movie right, but once you make a comedic Ant-Man, it'd then be hard to utilize Giant Man in a future Avengers movie. Of course, they may be better off sticking with their bigger (no pun intended) heroes in an Avengers movie, and leaving Giant Man out of it altogether.
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I've loved the Marvel Universe all my life and this is EXACTLY the type of take on an Ant Man film we need. Jack Black in a Green Lantern comedy this is not. While I'd love to see Hal Jordan on the big screen...not in a comedy, thank you very much WB.
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Marvel Enterprises -- oh, sorry, Marvel ENTERTAINMENT -- will find a way to screw this up. I'm sure we'll see an ANT-MAN movie (and a DEVIL DINOSAUR AND MOONBOY movie with the way they're carting out old, long-dead properties), but Wright will either jump ship or get kicked off once he starts making it good.
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What if during sex he accidentally shrinks? Where would he wind up? Would he be floating in air. Stuck inside of... something? What if it takes him a moment to realize he shrunk and he goes big again before orienting himself? If he is inside... something... he could kill the other person. I don't want to see that happen in a movie. I don't think anyone does. So why are they forcing this on us. We ask for quality superhero movies and they give us this. Fucking suits. When are they going to learn to think before they act.
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Sep 08, 2005 4:03:51 AM CDT
I used to like those Ant-Man & The Wasp stories in the old Tales
by frankdrebin
They were like The Thin Man's Nick & Nora. They'd bicker and banter, them beat-up some bizarre baddie, like the Kreature From Kosmos (who crawled out of a tv set, Ringu-style), or The Living Eraser (he didn't shoot people, he erased them...with an eraser).
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I have never heard of Ant-Man, but simply by attaching Edgar Wright's name to the movie, I'm dying to see it.
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On the Shaun Of The Dead/Spaced extras, you can tell Edgar's got some serious contact lense issues going on. He's the worlds most bleary eyed man. How's he even gonna see Antman? I have no idea who Antman is, but I dont want him to be trodden on by a weepy eyed Edgar late one night, that just doesn't seem fair now does it? For either of them. PS I so want the guy who directed Spaced - a fundemental part of my early teen years - become a bigshot Hollywood director. That would be truely beautiful. GO EDGAR! GO ON SON!!
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scored by Adam Ant
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Shaun of the Dead kicked my ass so hard I havne't said fudge once since. great movie!
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I'm much more looking forward to the Dr. Strange and Cloak & Dagger movies that they plan to make.
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why is it, Moriarty already knew about Edgar Wright having a shot at Ant-Man, but decided to wait until another website broke it before confirming he already knew??? WHAT A SCOOP! And anyways, an AICN Talkbacker broke this news two days ago after Moriarty decided to be vague with the knowledge he he has. Out of all the projects i've heard of Wright wanting/being attached to, this is my least keen. I'd rather he finishes up another Simon Pegg collaboration before attempting a "break (into) hollywood" movie. Hot Fuzz still sounds like a decent idea to me, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost as 70's coppers!
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I'm surprised they're making this. The first wife beating superhero movie. I wonder if they'll address this, or clean it up for the kids?
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you know it fuckers
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My love for all things Wright and Pegg is huge, so I hope that Edgar is not going to get involved with Marvel.....I'm sure their original ideas would be better than any license.....As mentioned by RealDoubleJ I also hope Hot Fuzz makes it to our screens soon...Still if an Ant-Man movie is going to be made I suppose comedy would be the best way to take it and i'd certainly sit through a movie with Pegg as Ant-Man...Actually sounds right up their street doesn't it? The trials and tribulations of a down trodden miniature superhero, finding it hard to make his impact on the hero world, whist trying to balance his lovelife and family at the same time.......I mean if Wright does get the go-ahead who else would he want for his hero?, I can't imagine him doing it without Pegg.......
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Saves the world by marshalling his ants in an epic battle against evil cockroaches controlled by Roach Man. This movies is going to be amazing.
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I think Wright is such a talent I'd like to see him given a bigger property than Ant Man. Give him The Avengers or Iron Man or Deadpool. But if that's what he really wants, they hell yeah! Wright is one of the few directors that I think really have the sensibility and the chops for comic book flicks. I hope Simon Pegg gets a role.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Simply brimming over with wrongabilty.
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Sep 08, 2005 6:45:20 AM CDT
Bart of Darkness, you're right about President Evil's op
by dr_dreadlocks
But don't tell him that.
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http://tinyurl.com/abo5k
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What kind of man would actually want to get smaller and smaller?
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Sep 08, 2005 7:16:52 AM CDT
Shaun of the Dead overrated?I guess you'd prefer a Hugh Gran
by the true priapic
Perhaps a Richard Curtis 'dram-edy' would suit?Theres more reality in Shaun than any fucking Curtis film!Tell ya what,pop down to Notting Hill sometime...have a look.Nothing like the film.However,try North London and Crouchy...plenty of zombies around after the bars shut.Or during the day littered outside Budgeons.What was that other piece of dangleberry?The one with Kiera?Love,Actually?Cock.A film literally aimed at Leicester Square tourists."Oh,we MUST go there?" , "Where?" , "London!" , "Wher ARE there!" , "Are we?" , "Well....where is THAT set?"
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"Shaun of the Dead" was only marginally good. I don't have any desire to see an Ant-Man movie, but with this director attached my desire is even less.
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You guys just need more cowbell
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Heh - no, it's the signature of Man-in-the-box over on the phantom zone - it just makes me laugh mate :)
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He rocks and he's from Somerset, the British equivalent of Alabama. Go get 'em you clever little bastard. Has anyone actually seen his "fistful of fingers"? film, and can anyone tell me where to get a copy
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.... it's basically about a hero in y-frontsrcvpxjmq
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If this is accurate then it's good news. I personally loved 'Shaun of the Dead' and if 'Ant-Man' even approaches the quality of that film I'll be pretty happy with it.
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...I only recall two directors having their music videos linked by this site: Michel Gondry and Edgar Wright. Both were great, very amusing and inventive.
Will Wright get one of THESE (see link) too? I hope so... they look so delicious...
http://www.onlinedirectorsteam.com/CDA5240F87574D8387EBDE8FEC733210/tracklin
k.asp?guid=DA8C387A66354D1093BB54FD983F8C7B
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...were none of you just a little bit disturbed by the fact that Shaun, in a pathetic attempt to get his girlfriend back, manages to get all of his friends and his family killed. This mass-murdering stupidity is then rewarded when she agrees to take him back. It never sat right with me. It wouldn't have taken much of a script tweak to put them in a position where they are forced to leave the safety of their flat and take refuge in the pub. Just imagine...if he had only remembered to book that table at the restaurant, she wouldn't have dumped him, he wouldn't have felt the need to try and prove himself, and they would all still be alive. Talk about your butterfly effect. I think too much about these things...
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I almost pissed myself when they threw the Prince Batman album at the zombie and bemoaned throwing the New Order. Good stuff. Oh, and that movie had the best use of a Morrissey lyric I've seen since the Invisibles.
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As long as Wright gets his lovely lady Charlotte Hatherley in the movie that will be sound with me. Preferably in ant sized clothes...
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Best sequence ever set to music in a film - beating the shit out of a zombie with pool cues to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now"
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Anyone remember Garrett Morris as Ant-Man on that old Saturday Night Live skit, where Bill Murray was Superman and Margot Kidder was Lois Lane? Now I can't get it out of my head...
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and it was waaaaay better, funnier, and, i would argue, scarier than the DAWN '04 Remake. btw, y'all caught Pegg and Wright as zombies in LAND? great stuff... anyways, an Ant-Man movie could be pretty effing funny!
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If he were smart, he would shrinkydink down, the box the 'man in the canoe' like a speedbag. "How's that, huh? How's that?!" budede-budede-budede-budede...
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when you have The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and every other fighting off the rats with matchsticks movie? Can this imagery ever be fresh or funny? On top of the fact that by the time this comes out Superhero comedies will be as burnt out as Gangsta Flicks in 2000. Maybe I'm not that imaginative, maybe I thought Shaun of the Dead was a grandiose fan film, but man after seeing the whole list of potential Marvel properties I don't think I need or want to see any movie ever again. Right now, good movies are only not as bad as the bad ones. Give them to some Thai or Japanese or Chinese filmmaker and at least they'll make something wierd out of it. Actually, I take it back, Hulk sucked. Stop making movies until you come up with an original idea.
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I use to mock DC for what little percent of the market they had in comics. Thou now I think they are going to kick Marvels butt in movies. Marvel had a good start but seems to off sold out for
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the guy's been not only ant-man, but yellowjacket, giant-man and goliath. okay so he had a thing for hitting the bottle AND his wife...he's a bright one and has been an essential avenger in the past. this could be a really great flick, and i'll say it again...i'm glad it's going to go the comedic route.
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Seriously, how funny can this be? Ant-man is stupid when presented seriously, it will be double-dumbass stupid when presented as a comedy. The jokes are obvious and lame as hell. Who wants to place a wager against me that Ant-man will fall into the cleavage of his love interest? Any takers? Doesn't matter now, they'll take it out of the script now that I revealed their one big gag, but I guarantee you it's in there right now. What else? OH NO ANT-MAN FELL INTO THE TOILET BOWL!!! Help me Ant-man, I lost my engagement ring down the storm drain!".....and comedy/adventure ensues? NOT! Who's going to be his enemy? Let's see, how about Pesticide-Man or the dreaded Little-Kid-With-A-Magnifying-Glass-Man?
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http://www.buzzscope.com/previewer.php?id=2511&p=3
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yeah, that was great too. It would have been great to have some sequence where people were killing friends and family who turned into zombies while "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division played.
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Sep 08, 2005 11:42:53 AM CDT
Topher Grace is VENOM!! Thomas Haden Church is SANDMAN!! James F
by chickychow
Freeze Dried Movies said it, not me... If its true, expect to see it on this site in, oh, a week or two.
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Sep 08, 2005 12:14:44 PM CDT
will be huge hit!!!! ant man and edgar wright are a perfect matc
by thunderbird77
Wow I am thrilled to hear this awesome news . ant man pre-dates spiderman as the first marvel hero with insect powers!! he was the template for spiderman!!! I loved edgar wrights shawn of the dead.. it was gut bursting funny and scarey all at once I hope badly he brings that same magic to antman!!!.. PLUS HE'LL HAVE A SERIOUS BUDGET!. antman has awesome rogues that can be played many ways including the living eraser, ultron, human top!...I have a mountain of confidense this film could cross many audience s (men /women /children)and be a huge hit... just give wright free reign to strut his stuff!!!! very excited to see the result...
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The character's been around over 40 years and is still being used to this day. No, I agree that the interest level just isn't high enough to warrant a movie.
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Sep 08, 2005 12:43:49 PM CDT
Will Ant-Man comedically beat the shit out of his wife and go on
by leiadown&fuckher
Yeah, that Ant-Man, he be laugh out loud funny, yo.
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Sep 08, 2005 12:45:40 PM CDT
Ant Man should find himself in situations like that scene in TAL
by chickychow
Y'know, the vagina scene.
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But just kind of sci-fi, I mean the premise, or origin story I guess, isn't really superhero stuff, basically a guy who figures out how to shrink himself and then gets lost in an ant colony, I think that could be a pretty interesting story on its own, just forget the whole superhero angle.
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If Wright actually likes the character, then this might work, even as a comedy. I'd rather they took a shot at "light-hearted action/adventure" instead, just because going the full comedy route seems kind of obvious and not really all that interesting to me. More or less like making an Aquaman movie where the other heroes stand on shore and laugh at him for 120 minutes - you can only wring so much comedy out of the "I'm lame" premise. And it doesn't really do much to build that character up in the eyes of an audience, except maybe as a walking joke. For better or worse, Ant-Man was never a humor strip. It may be quaint, campy, outdated, possibly even ill-conceived, but it was played straight. Anyhow, the truth of the matter is that ALL superheroes are kind of ridiculous on the surface. The reason most fanboys disregard Ant-Man in favor of, say, Spider-Man, is because nothing interesting was ever done with Ant-Man. Stan Lee handed the strip over to his brother Larry Lieber early on, and Kirby's art was replaced by Don Heck's. No wonder Ant-Man wasn't a smash hit. It's not really the character's fault, though. And if the strip HAD been a hit in the 60's, and followed the pattern of getting his own book and so-on like all the other Marvel Silver Age heroes, then the fanboys here would be clamoring for Ant-Man: The Movie instead of making fun of it. It's that simple.
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And no, I do not think a lot of screen time needs to be spent on the origin of Sandman or Venom. I think they will keep it simple and have them created by Harry who is putting together a villain team to defeat Spider-man. Spider-man 3, 3 villains, works for me.
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Then have David Chappelle play Ant-Man. Oh that would be so funny.
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I'm sort of pissed at Hollywood. If there's any particular reason why superhero movies will get lame it's because a lot of people don't really respect the genre. Look at the "original" superhero entertainments that have been spawned since Marvel's boom: 'Sky High,' 'Zoom,' and now this, 'Henchmen vs. Sidekicks.' That's really the best they've got? Even your run-of-the-mill underwear-on-the-outside fare is more complicated than that. It's almost insulting; they're like stereotypes of superhero entertainment. It's probably why the genre's also basically a plug and play exercise as it is. Get people who are passionate about the source material or who connect to it in some way to take care of these things, and even if the end result isn't always great, it should at least be interesting. Well, that's not necessarily true either. But you know what I'm saying, dammit.
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... they might not ultimately go with wife-beating Hank Pym. They could go with the man who subsequently took up teh mantle of Ant-Man - ex-convict, single father Scott Lang. Because with a single parent, you get the obligatory teen to pull in those extra demographics.....
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I can't wait..maybe they will be as good as Man-Thing...we can only pray.
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Right now, somewhere in Hollywood, one of those guys from
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Don't forget his stylin' electrified mane.
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I don't understand why anyone would be interested in this. Hank Pym is a decent character in the context of the Avengers or Ultimates, but as the star of a movie? Whether it's played straight or for laughs, it just does not appeal. "Haha, a lame superhero with goofy powers! Chuckle!" No. And fuck Moriarty for sitting on this one. If the nauseating cretins who "write" for this site are in so deep with their schmoozing that they can no longer bring the scoops, then they need to step down.
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Couldn't make a better movie than that. With Hillary Duff as Daisy and Anthony Hopkins as Ham the Druid.
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The Badger is great, because he represents what a superhero would be in real-life - bat-shit crazy. Actually, in the post-Burton Batman wake, Badger was in-development. Buck Henry, of all people, supposedly wrote a script. I've always wanted to read that just out of curiosity.
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Sep 08, 2005 7:04:15 PM CDT
while we're at it, can we get caviezel as dr.strange or hal
by darthbakpao
please... please?
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Hank Pym didn't invent The Vision, he invented Ultron, and Ultron invented The Vision out of the remains of the original Human Torch.
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It would be f-ing cool if somebody made a Badger movie.
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Sep 08, 2005 7:55:15 PM CDT
Not to hate on Mori, but if he knew this, why didn't he post
by daddylonghead
I come here for "scoops;" why is Mori holding them back from the readers? That really pisses me off. It's fun to be coy, but it's a lot more fun to keep this site going strong by actually sharing the latest news and rumors. What the fuck?
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Sep 08, 2005 8:01:30 PM CDT
And Chris Cunningham diresting a live action The Maxx
by trevor goodchild
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"Sources" are reporting that Edgar Wright is in talks to write and direct 'Ant-Man.' Firstly, "in talks" means that it's not official. Weren't any of you here when Moriarty had it on good information that Eric Bana was GOING TO BE James Bond? Maybe he didn't want to speak too soon again (and if he was wrong he'd probably get shit from some of the same assholes who are accusing him of sitting on info). Secondly, how do you know this is good information? Suppose that people have written that Edgar Wright would be a good choice for 'Ant-Man' elsewhere, for all you know the "scooper" could have read Moriarty's post, done a little looking around, and given the "scoop" based on other people's conjecture. So calm down. IF this is confirmed, then it'd make more sense to ask Moriarty for a response. As much as some of you love to hate the establishment, I don't think he was withholding a scoop just for the sake of being coy.
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He's got "The Chin" for it- And the snarky attitude.
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http://www.freezedriedmovies.com/news/index.php?Action=Full&NewsID=3355
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That was posted elsewhere, and I got excited before I read it.
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Y'know, normally I'd dismiss any rumor that didn't come straight from a confirmed source, i.e. Director, Star, etc. But as AICN doesn't, y'know, report scoops or rumors or anything past common knowledge anymore, I'm gonna assume this freeze-dried shit is bonafide, which is good, because that's about how I figured it would break down, and pretty much Venom gets me one step closer to seeing Carnage on screen and dying happy. So yeah.
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If handled right, this could be a hug e cult classic. Now hollywood is thinking right! :)
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Dumb, they should leave venom out and stick with hobgoblin. Mainstream audiences (not comic geeks like us) will be lost with anything else and will be expecting osborn to come back to kick some ass. THEN, bring in sandman. Too many villians to juggle and you may end up with a "batman and robin" debacle on your hands.
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FROM LATINOREVIEW DOT COM:
It was recently announced that Marvel Entertainment has secured a $525 million loan package that will allow it to produce 10 films based on its comic book characters, specifically Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, Shang-Chi and Ant-Man. Paramount will distribute the films, which will carry a price tag somewhere between $50 million-$165 million each. Well today IGN FilmForce has learned that British filmmaker Edgar Wright is poised to direct Ant-Man. Wright apparently plans on making Ant-Man a comedy.
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making out with my own grandma look like a party at the Playboy Mansion.
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does post-Avi Arad Marvel make the parties at the Playboy Mansion look like I'm making out with my grandma?
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He's the only one I can picture making this movie a 'serious' comedy if they went that way... But, I would LOVE to see it as a throw back to the INCREDIBLE SHINKING MAN style horror flick turned heroic-tragedy...
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Sep 09, 2005 4:41:41 AM CDT
Garret Morris as Ant-Man: "I'm a man that can shink to the s
by negative man
(At least, that's how I remember the Margot Kidder guest star episode of SNL... Either way, damn funny!
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So let's say the report is right...WHO CARES!??!! Shaun of the Dead is one of the most overrated flicks ever made. It's got such a big reception from the US as part of their 'Oh aren't the Brits so cute when dey be making films' program. Great, if he's directing we can all start salivating, especially if it's going to be a comedy....
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That was the idiotic Ultimates version, where everyone in the Avengers had to have some sort of angsty problems. In the original story, he hit her while in a chemically-induced personality change. That does not constitute wife-beating.
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this movie good? no?
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Are we really to the point where we are making Ant-man movies? That'll make Catwoman seem like Citizen Kane. On the other hand, a Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law movie would be friggin' sweet! Reducto is the only TRUE shrinking superperson.
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Sep 11, 2005 8:18:02 PM CDT
Before making this, why don't they remake, The Incredible Sh
by orionsangels
That's a great book and one of the few good old B/W scifi movies that wasn't cheesy, but good science fiction. It's a great story that could easily be made with today's special effects.
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Starring Seann William Scott as TINY BOYFRIEND, which does exactly what it says on the tin -- the ludicrously daft premise involves a self-absorbed young man
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Oh and it smells of corpses...WHATS THAT * something brushes past arm * AHHHHHHH FUCK it's a VAMPIRE, dragging me off into the night ahhhhhhhhhhhh............
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Interesting to see in Vanity Fair that Edgar will start on his second draft for this project after the Pilgrim junket finishes.
I hope he pulls back on the humour but still brings the sensibility he has to crazy visuals and the ability to micro reference seemingly endless details on what ever subject matter he covers. If he applies that to the Marvel universe then this film will rock.
He mentions that all films about shrunken people usually places them in peril whereas he sees Ant Man as a spy espionage film. The hero just happens to have this particular ability. All sounds good to me.
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