According to a press release on their website, Marvel has announced that two-time Academy Award winner Michael Douglas will star as Hank Pym and his alter ego Ant-Man in the July, 2015 movie of the same name. He’ll join co-star Paul Rudd in the film directed by Edgar Wright.

“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,” said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. “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.”

Rudd will play Scott Lang who, according to Marvel canon, is the second man to take the helm of Ant-Man as a thief who undergoes a change of heart. Though the plot has not yet been revealed in full, Douglas’ age suggests that there will likely be a passing of the torch, of sorts.

Fans of the superhero are having mixed results (to put it lightly), and have taken to twitter to voice their concerns:

“I’m sorry the Ant-Man movie isn’t about Hank Pym. He was always one of my favorite Marvel characters: brilliant, pacifistic, tormented,” said twitter user @JulianLives.

User @aportee was not as nostalgic. “Michael Douglas as Hank Pym? Umm.. Did I missed something? When did Hank Pym turn into an old man and why not use Hank Pym as Antman,” he fumed.

MTV reports that Douglas’ Hank Pym character might actually be the film’s villain, based off a report by Variety that was eventually revised on the heels of Marvel’s press release. Still, there’s apparently a canonical precedent for such a plot to unfold: During Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” storyline, it was revealed that Pym was secretly a shape-shifting Skrull, an incognito insurgent working alongside superheroes for years.

Fox owns the rights to the Skrulls, but it’s proof that Marvel has explored the idea of Pym as a villain before. Digging further, MTV notes that director Edgar Wright points to a 2006 interview that appears to put things to rest.

“Well, the thing is that what we want to do, 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, 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,” he told website SuperHeroHype.

So, there you have it. It appears that diehard fans of both Ant-Man iterations will get a chance to see their hero on the big screen.