History Trivia / AntMan

* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/PaulRudd being cast as Scott Lang means he won't be a redhead like in the comics, but Edgar Wright himself pointed to Rudd's natural charisma which would make Scott likeable despite being a criminal in-story; essentially, he was the natural choice for the role.

** Hank Pym's first line in the modern day is a sardonic, "Yes, I'm still alive.". This feels like a nod to his terminal cancer diagnosis and his amazing survival ''years'' after he was expected to succumb.

* CreatorBacklash: Edgar Wright, The original director of Ant-Man hasn't watch the film or even the trailer and he says "It would kind of be like asking me, ‘Do you want to watch your ex-girlfriend have sex?’ Like, ‘No, I’m good.’, Not to mention he hasn't spoken to Peyton Reed and the last time he ever spoken to him was not to uses storyboard from Edgar Wright.

* ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy: A number of the toys (including the Marvel Legends figure from Hasbro) mistakenly depicted Ant-Man's helmet with an open mouth, much like how it's depicted in the comics. This creates some FridgeLogic issues, since the entire reason the mouth is covered in the movie is so that Ant-Man's lungs don't burst while he's shrinking.

** Creator/JosephGordonLevitt was the second choice for Ant-Man and would have likely gotten the role if Paul Rudd declined.

* CreatorBacklash: Edgar Wright, The original director of Ant-Man hasn't watch the film or even the trailer and he says "It would kind of be like asking me, ‘Do you want to watch your ex-girlfriend have sex?’ Like, ‘No, I’m good.’

* CaliforniaDoubling: Inverted. Atlanta, Georgia is doubling for San Francisco and Silicon Valley in California. In particular, the Pym Technologies Building was the long-closed Georgia State Archives building.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Inverted. Atlanta, Georgia is doubling for San Francisco and Silicon Valley in California.

** Edgar Wright wanted Creator/SteveBuscemi as Hank Pym. Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/SeanBean were also considered for the role.

** Creator/JosephGordonLevitt and Creator/EwanMcGregor were in the running to play Ant-Man.
** Edgar Wright wanted Creator/SteveBuscemi as Hank Pym.

** The OurFounder painting at Pym Tech -- he might be more honest than [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]], but a younger Michael Douglas in a suit can't bring anything else to mind.
** Michael Peña plays a former convict in San Quentin. He's been [[Film/TheLincolnLawyer locked up there before.]]
** John Slattery [[Series/MadMen again gets to be amused when an angry co-worker beats up a jerkass coworker.]]

* DyeingForYourArt: Paul Rudd's been known to show off his "Dad Bod" (not exactly out-of-shape, but carrying more than a little extra weight) but, like many other Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse leading men before him, got absolutely ripped for this film (to the point where the costume department removed much of the fake muscle padding in the suit because he got big enough to show definition naturally).

** Looking at Peyton Reed's resumé, the last thing you'd expect him to direct is a superhero movie, though he was attached to work on ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' (before Tim Story) and was close to directing ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/PaulRudd being cast as Scott Lang means he won't be a redHead like in the comics, but Edgar Wright himself pointed to Rudd's natural charisma which would make Scott likeable despite being a criminal in-story; essentially, he was the natural choice for the role.

* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/PaulRudd being cast as Scott Lang means he won't be a RedHeadedHero like in the comics, but Edgar Wright himself pointed to Rudd's natural charisma which would make Scott likeable despite being a criminal in-story; essentially, he was the natural choice for the role.

* ExecutiveMeddling: A number of rewrites from the Marvel Creative Committee in which Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish had no control over. Eventually, Peyton Reed was chosen as director and Adam [=McKay=] was in charge of rewrites.
** Wright's departure and Joss Whedon's disillusionment after ''AvengersAgeOfUltron'' led Marvel Studios to be reconfigured by Disney into a separate entity from Marvel Entertainment.

** The ending was supposed to have a showdown between Ant-Man and [[spoiler: Carson]], with Ant-Man defeating him and reclaiming the stolen [[spoiler: sample of Pym Particles]]. The ending was changed to [[spoiler: Carson]] escaping and presumably delivering the sample to [[spoiler: HYDRA]] in order to set up ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

** Creator/MichaelPena plays a former convict in San Quentin. He's been [[Film/TheLincolnLawyer locked up there before.]]
** Creator/JohnSlattery [[Series/MadMen again gets to be amused when an angry co-worker beats up a jerkass coworker.]]

* CreatorBacklash: A minor example. Evangeline Lilly said on an [[http://collider.com/ant-man-evangeline-lilly-talks-script-changes-ambiguity-more/ interview]] promoting the film with ''Collider'' that she hated the comics that she was given to research her role and called it "total crap" because it didn't feature either Scott, Hank or Janet, though she did say that she enjoyed working in the film.

* CreatorBacklash: A minor example. Evangeline Lilly said on an [[http://collider.com/ant-man-evangeline-lilly-talks-script-changes-ambiguity-more/ interview]] promoting the film with ''Collider'' that she hated the comics that she was given to research her role and called it "total crap" because it didn't feature either Scott, Hank or Janet, though did say that she enjoyed working in the film.