Take a first look at Marvel’s Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd

Take a first look at Marvel’s Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd

Marvel continues to line up their potential hits. The first trailer for Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd, has hit the internet. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the long-anticipated Ant-Man trailer premiered on Tuesday January 6 during ABC’s premiere of its limited series Agent Carter, which follows a character from Marvel’s Captain America movie. The Ant-Man trailer […]

Marvel continues to line up their potential hits. The first trailer for Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd, has hit the internet.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the long-anticipated Ant-Man trailer premiered on Tuesday January 6 during ABC’s premiere of its limited series Agent Carter, which follows a character from Marvel’s Captain America movie. The Ant-Man trailer has since been made available on YouTube and since last night has already received over a million views.

The end of the trailer directs fans to look for more coverage at Entertainment Weekly, which currently has a four-page story breaking down the entire 2-minute trailer. EW explains to non-Marvel-fanatics that there were actually two characters in the comics who acted as Ant-Man, Hank Pym, a brilliant scientist who designed the suit that allowed the wearer to be miniaturized, and Scott Lang, a thief who later stole the suit to attempt to save his ill daughter.

The trailer appears to depict both characters, with Rudd playing Lang and Michael Douglas playing Pym. Although it is unclear if the exact story from the comics will be repeated, the trailer does show Rudd’s character with a daughter and alludes to Pym’s laboratory and potential ambiguity as a benefactor. EW reports that Marvel fans can spot both Corey Stoll as wealthy and morally corrupt entrepreneur Darren Cross and Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne, who in the comics was Pym’s estranged daughter.

Marvel’s famous sense of humor also remains intact as Rudd asks if it’s too late to change the name “Ant-Man.”

Ant-Man is directed by Peyton Reed and hits theatres July 19.

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