'Ant-Man' Happening Sometime After 'The Avengers'

Edgar Wright has been linked to an Ant-Man movie for a while. Like Thor and maybe even The Hulk, there are some substantial hurdles just with presenting that comic book as a film. Each of those titles has issues either with the way the character is realized or the setting that could pose problems down the line. Coming Soon asked Marvel's Kevin Feige where the Ant-Man film is on the company's to-do list now that Wright has completed production on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. "We sat down and we started working on a calendar of when to get him back into it once he finishes promoting Scott Pilgrim," Feige said, a clear confirmation that this is the direction Marvel wants to go. "So I think towards the end of this year, early next year we'd start looking at early prep for that, but certainly for a release date after The Avengers."That means post-summer 2012, and it might also underline one of the many lingering Marvel rumors, that Ant-Man will be officially introduced to movie fans in The Avengers. That's going to become more and more common as Marvel (through its relationship with Disney) starts making more and more movies based around its dense catalog of characters. But Ant-Man has that irritating little visual effects problem: How do you make a guy look believably tiny? And how do you make the action of a man in world now exponentially larger work? Innerspace got it right but that was a slightly different circumstance. A Fantastic Voyage remake will have that to draw from, too. But Ant-Man has to exist in the outside world, with other characters. Could be tough to do. Remember, Marvel (or more specifically, Fox) couldn't crack the case of how to make the enormous Galactus work in the second Fantastic Four movie, so he was just a giant dust storm or something. It sounds like they've got about three years to figure it out, though. And then it's just making a good story out of it that people will want to see, an extra challenge for most Marvel characters that don't have name recognition with audiences.