Ant Man Teaser via Agent Peggy Carter
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 11:53PM 
Agent Carter premiered tonight. I actually thought it was quite good with Hayley Atwell a surprisingly strong presence as the lead. Perhaps she's better suited for TV given that she's never been that exciting on the big screen.
In addition to being top notch at the straight-faced espionage scenes, she was quite willingly winking with camp affection to "spy" shows in her undercover scenes. A good sense of humor all around and bonus points for including Dollhouse's excellent Enver Gjokaj in the supporting cast and for passing the Bechdel Test within, like, the first four minutes. See, it's EASY to do. Much appreciated.
I know I'm not supposed to be talking about actresses but I can't help myself! The subject of this post is the Ant Man teaser. We'll wait for the trailer for a full "Yes No Maybe So" but for now random thoughts...
after the jump, please enjoy the teaser and my 8 favorite shots from the trailer.
Cinematography by Russell Carter of Titanic fame.
That Corey Stoll swagger. Bring it. So happy his career took off after Midnight in Paris (2011). He so deserved all that attention.
Love Paul Rudd's 'huh' after hearing the serious superhero origin business.
The shrinking effect is fun
Michael Peña alert. Always so welcome in movies.
Prison fight. I didn't spot David Dastmalchian (a character actor I love that has been nominated twice in this site's awardage for best cameo/limited performance) anywhere in this trailer. Perhaps he's in the jail sequences?
In an original draft of this post I was just going to post this pic 7 times as my 7 favorite shots. I am silly.
The teaser isn't very funny but i hope the actual movie is funny and brightly colored (we know Peyton Reed can do that but will he here?) because this story kind of begs to be fun and comic like Guardians of the Galaxy.
Did you like the tease? How annoying is my miniature ant-sized text?
Reader Comments (11)
LOVED Agent Carter. Can't wait for more.
Apart from that shirtless Paul Rudd scene, I was just MEH on the teaser. But it IS just a teaser. If the full trailer and movie is more fun and light like GoTG, it could be good.
Thought I was done with superhero movies, but I enjoyed GotG and I really like Paul Rudd, so yes. And YES to Agent Carter! Love the fact that Hayley Atwell is curvy! This one is so much better than Agents of Shield (except for Ming-na). I'm glad they're trying the 6 or 7 episode story arc, which may keep me more interested in the Marvel universe.
Yeah, I know, but can we PLEASE talk about Agent Carter? Because it may be my favorite thing Marvel has done up to this point. It was so much FUN, and the 40s-style fashions/production design were on point, even embracing the soundstage quality for the outdoor city scenes. Plus, Hayley Atwell was perfect - so much better than I remember from Captain America. And the radio show bits! AMAZING. I wasn't exactly looking forward to it, and it totally won me over in about five minutes.
As for Ant Man... HELLO Paul Rudd's abs!
Denny -- YES. That radio show. Just delightful.
Agreed. "Agent Carter" was super fun.
As for the teaser, I don't quite get it. Does he become ant sized to fight crime?
And why does Ant Man need to shave his chest?
forever1267: Yeah, kind of. The original Ant-Man comics are bizarre, though, with The Wasp's origin, for example, featuring a space creature MADE of formic acid and Hank Pym shooting himself out of a cannon and landing on a pile of ants. Yes, really.
The Ant-man movie looks fun-- much more fun than the character in the comics, who was always a B-lister. Funny that they're setting up Ant-man as a legacy hero, since that's much more a DC comics thing than a Marvel thing. And I'll watch Paul Rudd in pretty much anything. Maybe this is the new superhero casting model: hire a funny, charming guy and get him a physical trainer.
Loved Agent Carter more than I expected! I know I'm just setting myself up for disappointment (because it will never happen) but THIS is how they should be approaching a Wonder Woman movie-- 1940s setting and all. (Now I'm envisioning Hayley Atwell in the classic Lynda Carter costume...)
Biggs: The big problem with Ant-Man, more than being "lame" is always that even the mainline version of Pym is too unstable to be all that sustainable as a solo character. I'd love Marvel to be nuts enough to go wackily dark comic and R-rated with an Ant-Man's Big Christmas adaptation but, due to the very nature of the concept, you CAN'T do that story with Scott Lang and it'd be a stretch to do it with Eric O'Grady. There's still a way they could easily swing it, but it'd require Hank Pym to get dosed with a rewritten version of the Infinity Formula that would literally de-age characters to an appropriate younger actor instead of suppressing a character's age like in the comics. Basically, yeah, it's a way to have a re-casting juice around without saying it's a full blown ret-con for all the prior events, but I think that would be a workable strategy for the MCU.
As far as your suggestion for Wonder Woman: That's the conflict. She has to at least start as a 1940s character because that's the only thing that makes sense, but she's also ALWAYS been viewed as a contemporary of Batman, Superman and the rest of the Justice League in spite of how much that has become increasingly unsupportable and comics fans are pushing more for her to be adapted as a contemporary. Realistically, her Flash SHOULD be Jay Garrick, her Green Lantern SHOULD be Alan Scott, her Atom SHOULD be Al Pratt and she SHOULD have 70+ years experience on Bruce and Clark, but fans increasingly want her to be linked in a three pronged group with those two as a desperate attempt to justify Wondie getting adapted in spite of the fact that a full blown separation should have been happening in the comics. The ideas of the Batgirls and Black Canary are more timeless, and how DC has allowed Wondie to stay a contemporary of their other two big characters when, in every conceivable way, it pretty much cuts off any logical tonal direction and, thus, baffles.
Volvagia: Your knowledge and insight into the Ant-man character is much deeper than mine! Great analysis.
As for Wonder Woman, the situation really shows that a shared universe can limit the stories you can tell. Given that Marvel was successful starting Captan America off in the 1940s and then moving him into the present, I don't know why DC couldn't do something similar. You wouldn't even need the deep freeze contrivance, as she's an immortal amazon princess.
Well, Paul Rudd is looking good.
This movie trailer is definitely getting mixed reviews! The part where he rode off on an ant did seem kind of silly, but the rest of it didn't actually look too bad. At least it can't be any worse than Iron Man 3!