Ant-Man: The Newest Superhero

Ant-Man: Next Big Super Box Office Hero

In my last post I spoke to the issue of the marriage between Hollywood and the Comic Book Companies: Marvel and DC Comics.  That marriage has become the most lucrative in the history of the cinema and is continuing with no end in sight.  Adding to the roster of superheroes to hit the silver screen will be Wonder Woman, The Flash and the rather obscure Ant-Man, who will hit the screen on 2015.

Comic-book aficionados know of Ant-Man's troublesome creation and his disrespect by creative movie teams. Ant-Man or Henry Pym (who is married to Janet van Dyne - The Wasp) got a bad rap in the '80s when he was expelled from the Avengers for attacking an enemy from behind when the enemy had stopped fighting.  Additionally, he manhandled Janet and had planned to build a robot which would attack his hero comrades.  That is all in the past however, and Ant-Man is about to make a return to his rightful place along side his super friends.

The upcoming movie will offer up a new and improved Ant-Man, who will stand alone, and not meet with other heroes just yet.  Says, Edgar Wright, Ant-Man creator and the film's director, "I think, the first movie's, just doing its own thing is the accepted history, but it's still part of the other superhero movies and always was. I like to make it stand-alone because I think the premise of it needs time. I want to put the crazy premise of it into a real world, which is why I think Iron Man really works, because it's a relatively simple universe."

Ant-Man has the super ability to morph from the size of an insect to that of an elephant and beyond.  This should offer ripe material to deliver a movie in which Ant-Man is able to shed his dubious past - but does allow the option for him to fall back on his villainous ways.  I look forward to the Ant-Man movie and we should be prepared for a hair-raising cinema experience.

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Jim Lavorato