With just getting his hands on the Golden Globe for playing Liberace in Behind The Candelabra this weekend, Michael Douglas got more good news when he was has asked to play Hank Pym in Edgar Wright’s take on Ant-Man.
That confirms, then, that Paul Rudd is playing Scott Lang. Though plot details about how Pym and Lang will fit into the film have not be announced officially, Wright tweeted “The idea that we have for the adaptation is to actually involve both. Is to have a film that basically is about Henry Pym and Scott Lang, so you actually do a prologue where you see Pym as Ant-Man in action in the 60’s, in sort of Tales To Astonish mode basically,” Wright told Superhero Hype. “And then the contemporary, sort of flash-forward, is Scott Lang’s story, and how he comes to acquire the suit, how he crosses paths with Henry Pym, and then, in an interesting sort of Machiavellian way, teams up with him.”
“With Hank Pym’s rich history in the Marvel Universe, we knew we needed an actor capable of bringing the weight and stature to the role that the character deserves,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said in a statement. “We felt incredibly relieved when Michael Douglas agreed to step into the part with the charm and fortitude he brings to every character he inhabits, and couldn’t be more excited to see what he will do to bring Hank Pym to life.”
Joe Cornish will be co-writing the script, and Wright is set to start shooting Ant-Man soon and is said to arrive on August 14, 2015.