Ant-Man director Edgar Wright Explained the Pym/Lang set up for the film… back in 2006

For those who don’t know the history of this film’s production, Ant-Man has been talked about for years. Earlier today Marvel revealed that Michael Douglas would be playing Hank Pym in the upcoming Ant-man film, leaving Paul Rudd to be playing Scott Lang, but quickly after it was revealed the director of the film quickly posted to twitter revealing that he had planned this all from the beginning.

 His twitter post points to an interview done with SuperHeroHype back in 2006 where he details the following:

SHH!: So Marvel contacted you later about Ant-Man?
Wright: No, not specifically about Ant-Man. I just brought it up because they asked me if I was interested in any Marvel titles, and I had written a treatment for Ant-Man three years ago, but that was the first they had ever heard of it.

SHH!: Did you end getting the exact same call and the exact same meeting a second time?
Wright: No, I just met them here at the Comic-Con for a general meeting, talking about Marvel Comics, and the fact that they were just really intrigued that they had no idea that I had written a treatment for Ant-Man.

SHH!: I think it’s interesting that the Ant-Man you knew and grew up with was the Scott Lang one, since most people I would think know the one who hung with the Wasp in “Tales to Astonish.”
Wright: Well, the thing is that what we want to do, the idea that we have for the adaptation is to actually involve both. Is to have a film that basically is about Henry Pym and Scott Lang, so you actually do a prologue where you see Pym as Ant-Man in action in the 60’s, in sort of “Tales to Astonish” mode basically, and then the contemporary, sort of flash-forward, is Scott Lang’s story, and how he comes to acquire the suit, how he crosses paths with Henry Pym, and then, in an interesting sort of Machiavellian way, teams up with him. So it’s like an interesting thing, like the “Marvel Premiere” one that I read which is Scott Lang’s origin, it’s very brief like a lot of those origin comics are, and in a way, the details that are skipped through in the panels and the kind of thing we’d spend half an hour on.

Interestingly enough, this continues to fall in line with what the infamous Rodger Wardell stated in his twitter posts, and what he continued to state in our interview with him.

Ant-Man is scheduled to be released on July 31, 2015.