ANT-MAN Sounds Like it Could be a lot Funnier Than Past Marvel Studios Films



Marvel's Ant-Man is in an interesting position right now because it is being overshadowed by the release of the box office juggernaut that is Avengers: Age of Ultron. This might be the best position for the newest solo movie addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

There's no need to get into last year's issues of Ant-Man losing its director and getting its filming schedule pushed back several months, because most fans should know this by now. What needs to be said is that Ant-Man is somewhat under-the-radar this summer. Even though its first teaser trailer has over nine million views on Marvel's YouTube channel there are mixed opinions about it.

Bottom line is that this is a Marvel Studios film and the brand name alone has more excited for Ant-Man than afraid of it. Which brings us to the point of this post. Ant-Man is already known to be a heist movie but now its revealed that the movie may be more in the realm of comedy than past MCU films.

In a new interview with Collider.com, actor Bobby Cannavale spoke about how he was surprised by the level of humor in his Ant-Man scenes and that the film production felt more like an Indie movie film shoot more so than a blockbuster movie production.

"That was a really cool experience, because as big as that movie is and really as big a production as that was, the actual work in the scenes were really fun. It felt like we were on an Indie film. Rudd is one of my oldest friends. Most of our scenes are together, like me and Paul and Judy Greer. And so, both those actors are really good improvisers. Adam McKay and Paul did a big rewrite on that script. So the scenes themselves felt like an Indie film. It really felt like a comedy that we were doing."

Cannavale also confirmed in this interview that he is playing a brand new character created for Ant-Man who isn't a part of Marvel comic book universe canon. 

The fact that Ant-Man may be more humor than past MCU films is not surprising seeing as how leading actor Paul Rudd and Anchorman writer/director Adam McKay rewrote the script after the departure of writer/director Edgar Wright and writer Joe Cornish. Rudd and McKay have worked together on comedy movies and their screenwriting credit for Ant-Man should have been the first clue that this movie will be funnier than fans might have expected.





Ant-Man releases in theaters on July 17, 2015.



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