Ant-Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Ant-Man or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Ant-Man

[frederick]

Whilst filming a scene with Michael Douglas, Paul Rudd attempted to reenact the famous interrogation scene with Sharon Stone from Basic Instinct (1992). Rudd ultimately failed with the attempt, resulting in Michael Douglas saying "What are you? A f****** pervert?"

[claude]

Evangeline Lilly and Lee Pace both starred in a Phase-Two Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, and both also starred in films from The Hobbit trilogy. Lilly played Tauriel in both The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), while Pace played Thranduil in all three films.

[sandra]

For a brief moment we see that Pym does have heart issues. At 1:17:59 we see Hank Pym place a money clip, his tank key chain, a watch, and a prescription for 150 mg of Ticagrelor which is heart medication, a blood anticoagulant.

[ronnie]

The preview for the first teaser was ant-sized... Which is to say that it's almost completely impossible to tell what's going on in it. A human-sized trailer went up the next day.

[terry]

(at around 46 mins) Scott Lang suggests calling the Avengers to assist. In the comics, Ant-Man was an original Avenger.

[alyssa]

Corey Stoll plays the main antagonist Darren Cross in this movie, and also appears in the film The Bourne Legacy (2012) where the main protagonist's name is Aaron Cross.

[ella]

At the end, Ant-Man enlarges one ant to about 6-ft long. In 1954 a movie was released called Them! It had ants mutated to gigantic size. It was directed by Gordon Douglas (no relation to Michael Douglas).

[phyllis]

Filmed in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio, rather than the usual 2.39:1 for most Marvel films, to resemble the short stature of the title character. It's sequel was filmed in 2.39, but it featured over an hour of footage that was opened up at 1.90:1, which closely matches this film's 1.85:1 aspect ratio, when the movie played in IMAX theaters.

[chad]

Posters for "Pingo Doce," the Brazilian soda company Bruce Banner worked for in The Incredible Hulk (2008), can be seen in the San Francisco scenes.

[ronnie]

Although Edgar Wright dropped out of the movie, a large portion of the script he wrote is still in the story.

[bryan]

The ending was supposed to have a showdown between Ant-Man and Carson, with Ant-Man defeating him and reclaiming the stolen sample of Pym Particles. The ending was changed to Carson escaping and presumably delivering the sample to HYDRA in order to set up Captain America: Civil War (2016).

[jessie]

Marvel Heroes Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) & Chris Pratt (Star Lord) have both played a goofy/idiotic character named Andy on separate television shows. Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and Pratt in Parks and Recreation (2009).

[alyssa]

When the role of Wasp (Hank Pym's lover and wife) was in the script, Rashida Jones and Emma Stone were considered for the part.

[bessie]

(at around 11 mins) Darren Cross jokes that the concept of a shrinking human sounds like a "tale to astonish." Ant-Man made his debut in the comic "Tales to Astonish" #27 (Jan. 1962). Darren Cross shrinks a chair as part of a demonstration; this was taken from the same comic, where the first thing Hank Pym shrank was a chair.

[stephanie]

All the movie (closing film of Phase Two in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) shares many similarities with Iron Man (2008) (first film of Phase One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe):-A revolutionary and technologically advanced crime-fighting suit is replicated (and modified to be more lethal), by a former friend/partner of the suit's inventor, who has ambitions to sell the technology to people with nefarious purposes, expressly against the wishes of the inventor.-In an effort to protect this from happening, and protect someone he loves, the hero must use the suit beyond its expected capabilities to defeat the villain, resulting in the villain's death as his own suit is destroyed.-The hero is endangered by the technology he uses (Obadiah extracts from Tony Stark's breast the mechanism that prevents the shrapnel inside his blood from arriving at his heart to kill him, and Scott Lang uses the special system of the suit to defeat Cross, reducing his size to enter in the Quantum Realm).-The hero trains to use the suit with comic results (Tony Stark crashes sometimes while he constructs the first armor, and Scott Lang increases his size before the right time, crashing against the ground).-A woman turns into the assistant of the hero (Pepper Potts for Tony Stark, and Hope Pym for Scott Lang).-Love interest between the hero and his assistant (Tony Stark and Pepper Potts, Scott Lang and Hope Pym).-Both movies also end with the implication that the heroes' actions have earned them consideration for joining the Avengers.-The main villain of the movie is bald (Obadiah Stane in Iron Man, Darren Cross in Ant-Man).-The villain dies by the suit he creates (Stark collapses Stane's armor, who falls to crash against the Arc Reactor of the laboratory, and Lang collapses Cross's armor, who vanishes in the Quantum Realm).-Presentation of a hero for a sequel (War Machine in Iron Man, The Wasp in Ant-Man).

[kenneth]

Pym technologies' logo is a series of 4 circles (2 inner ones are large, 2 outer ones are small) connected by lines. The 2 circles on the left are closed in; the 2 on the right are open. From left to right, the pattern is downward (small circle to large circle)-upward (large circle to small circle)-downward (small circle to large circle), which could suggest shrinking and growing in size.

[carla]

During a fight inside a bag between Cross and Lang while both are minimized, Cross shouts: "I'm gonna disintegrate you!", and the Siri AI in an iPhone device inside the same bag understands this as a command to play the album "Disintegration" by The Cure, and proceeds to play the album's first track, "Plainsong". The album came out in 1989, the same year as the movie's opening scene. "Lullaby", another song on the same album, mentions a "spiderman".

[marc]

While Edgar Wright was working on the film, he requested that Marvel refrain from using Ant-Man or Wasp until he had finished the movie, which is why they were absent from The Avengers (2012).

[amber]

Michael Peña was actually stumbling over his words during the "telephone game" sequence.