First Look at Paul Rudd as Scott Lang in Ant-Man

 

The first picture of Scott Lang from Marvel’s Ant-Man has surfaced online.  Not much to see here other than Paul Rudd looking like a drifter, down on his luck, looking forward towards greatness or something equally ridiculous.  The premise of the film revolves around Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Lang (Rudd) teaming up to perform some sort of heist to save the world.  Hank Pym has presumably already discovered Pym Particles, which allow him to shrink in size while maintaining the strength of a full sized man, in addition to constructing a helmet that can communicate with ants.  The comic version of Scott Lang has him as a street level criminal who stumbles upon an old lab belonging to Pym and discovering the Ant-Man gear enabling him to perform a number of heists to enrich himself.  He also uses it to watch women undress without permission.  It will definitely be interesting to see what direction they take with developing the character given Rudd’s primarily comedic background; fortunately Marvel is no stranger to jokes.  Hopefully the numerous rewrites and strife on the project to this point, including dropping longtime director Edgar Wright for Peyton Reed pays off.

Ant-Man will be released in the US on July 17, 2015.