Watch: 2 Clips & New Featurette For ‘Ant-Man’; Director Peyton Reed Would Love To Explore Hank Pym In A Prequel
"Listen, if we were lucky enough to be able to do a sequel or even a prequel, I'd be way into it," director Peyton Reed recently said regarding his upcoming Marvel film “Ant-Man” (you can watch the interview below). "I've really fallen in love with these characters. I was always in love with the characters in the comic book world, but there's a lot of story to tell with Hank Pym."
Reed brings up an interesting point. The “Ant-Man” character was originally Henry "Hank" Pym, the creator of the Pym particles technology, which allows him and others to shrink and to communicate with ants, and a founding member of “The Avengers” in the comics. Obviously, that’s not the canon of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but when you think about it, it’s an inspired choice to make the MCU version of Pym the secondary character to Paul Rudd's Scott Lang. If the movie used Michael Douglas' Pym as the protagonist, you essentially get another super smart...