60 Fun Facts About Ant-Man Movies

Who plays Scott Lang / Ant-Man?

Rudd said he took 'the Chris Pratt approach' and basically ate nothing fun for a year to get in shape.

Who plays Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man?

He compared taking the role to shaking things up with Behind the Candelabra, and stipulated he would not wear the suit.

Who directed all three Ant-Man films?

He was brought in three weeks after the original director quit in May 2014; Marvel felt he had 'a real grasp on the Ant-Man universe'.

Which director developed Ant-Man from 2006 and left in 2014 over creative differences?

He said: 'I wanted to make a Marvel movie but I don't think they really wanted to make an Edgar Wright movie.'

What is the name of the shrinking suit that the villain of the first film builds?

Corey Stoll described it as what a battle suit would look like 'if Apple had designed' it, and performed it in motion capture.

Where does Scott Lang find the Ant-Man suit during his first burglary?

Pym set the whole thing up as a test, manipulating Scott through an unwitting Luis.

Who plays Luis, Scott's former cellmate and storyteller-in-chief?

He modelled Luis's cadence and sunny outlook on 'a friend of a friend' who would say 'I went to jail, dawg' with a grin.

What happened to Janet van Dyne in 1987, according to Pym?

Scott's return from the same place is what makes Pym wonder if she is still alive.

Which Avenger does Scott fight when he breaks into the Avengers' headquarters?

Rudd and McKay added the scene after watching The Winter Soldier; it sets up Scott's recruitment in Civil War.

To whom does Cross intend to sell his suit and the Ant-Man suit?

Martin Donovan's ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Mitchell Carson escapes with a vial of Cross's particles.

How does Scott defeat Cross in the final fight?

Overriding the regulator sends Scott into the Quantum Realm, and he manages to reverse it and come back.

Which two characters appear with Bucky Barnes in the post-credits scene of Ant-Man?

Unable to call Tony because of 'the accords', Sam says he knows a guy, which leads straight into Civil War.

Under what working title was Ant-Man shot in San Francisco?

Each sequel got its own equally odd code name.

Which comedian, who played Ant-Man in a 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch, cameos as a taxi driver?

Stan Lee appears as a bartender, and Tom Kenny voices the toy rabbit Scott gives his daughter.

Which actor was originally cast as Paxton before scheduling forced him out?

Bobby Cannavale took over after Rudd and McKay 'pumped up' the part in rewrites.

Ant-Man was the final film of which MCU era?

Quantumania later opened another era, making the character a bookend twice over.

Roughly how much did Ant-Man (2015) gross worldwide?

Deadline put its net profit at $103.9 million; each sequel is also on this list.

Who composed the scores for all three Ant-Man films?

He had worked with Reed on Bring It On; Steven Price had been the original director's choice.

Why is Scott under house arrest at the start of Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Randall Park's FBI agent Jimmy Woo is the one checking his ankle monitor.

What do Hope and Pym leave wearing Scott's ankle monitor as a decoy?

The ant even takes drum lessons and baths in Scott's place.

Who plays Janet van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

She was Reed's dream casting from the first film, where stand-in Hayley Lovitt was picked for her 'saucer-like, Michelle Pfeiffer eyes'.

Which character is nicknamed 'Ghost' in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Hannah John-Kamen won the role after Steven Spielberg sent Reed a letter praising her work on Ready Player One.

What causes Ava's molecular instability?

In the comics Ghost is a man; the film made the character female to keep the fathers-and-daughters theme going.

Who plays Bill Foster, Pym's estranged former partner on Project Goliath?

Fishburne pitched himself to Marvel despite already being the DCEU's Perry White; Reed likened Foster and Pym to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Who plays black-market dealer Sonny Burch?

His men end up confessing to the police thanks to his own truth serum.

How long do Pym and company have to reach Janet before the Quantum Realm separates them for a century?

Pym goes in alone while Scott and Hope keep Ava away from the lab.

What is the name of the business Scott runs with Luis, Dave and Kurt?

Luis's truth-serum monologue about the firm's finances is the sequel's version of his tip montages.

What happens to Hank, Hope and Janet in the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Scott is left stranded in the Quantum Realm, which is where Endgame finds him five years later.

Under what working title was Ant-Man and the Wasp filmed?

Dante Spinotti shot it on Arri Alexa 65 cameras at Pinewood Atlanta.

What does Stan Lee's character have happen to him in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

He co-created both title heroes with Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber.

Roughly how much did Ant-Man and the Wasp gross worldwide?

Its $75.8 million opening was a 33% improvement on the first film's debut.

Who plays Kang the Conqueror in Quantumania?

The Loki team helped cast him because he first played the variant He Who Remains on that series.

Who plays Scott's grown-up daughter in Quantumania?

Abby Ryder Fortson played her as a child and Emma Fuhrmann as a teenager in Endgame.

What is the title of Scott's memoir in Quantumania?

It tells a somewhat different version of how he helped beat Thanos.

Whose device accidentally sends the whole family into the Quantum Realm?

Janet panics and shuts it off, but the signal has already been received.

Which returning villain is revealed to have become M.O.D.O.K.?

Writer Jeff Loveness pitched him as a cross between Otto from A Fish Called Wanda and Frank Grimes from The Simpsons.

Who plays Lord Krylar, Janet's old ally in the Quantum Realm?

Reed saw the character as the past always finding a way to show up again.

What did Janet do to Kang's power core to stop him escaping the Quantum Realm?

She had helped him rebuild it before seeing a vision of him destroying entire timelines.

What does Scott encounter inside the power core that splits him into multiple copies?

Hope arrives to pull him together and grab the core.

Which character does David Dastmalchian play in Quantumania, after Kurt in the first two films?

Veb's ooze lets anyone understand Quantum Realm language; William Jackson Harper plays Quaz.

Which Kang variant leads the Council of Kangs in the mid-credits scene?

Loki and Mobius then meet Victor Timely at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in the post-credits scene.

Quantumania was the first film of which MCU era?

Feige called it 'a direct line' into the then-planned Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

What was Quantumania's net production budget, making it one of the most expensive films ever?

It grossed $476.1 million and became one of the few MCU films not to break even in cinemas.

Where did the main Quantumania shoot take place from July 2021?

Under the working title Dust Bunny, it used ILM's StageCraft virtual sets that Reed knew from The Mandalorian.

What Rotten Tomatoes score did Quantumania receive?

The first two films scored 83% and 87%; critics still praised Majors' Kang.

Which musician, son of the many-worlds physicist, cameos asking Scott Lang for a photo with his dog?

His father Hugh Everett III proposed the many-worlds theory that underpins the multiverse idea.

Which radio host tried to buy the Ant-Man film rights from Marvel in 2000?

That May Artisan Entertainment struck a deal to co-produce the film; the rights reverted to Marvel when Lionsgate bought Artisan in 2003.

Which Disney film's development helped stall a late-1980s Ant-Man pitch by Stan Lee?

Lee had pitched Ant-Man to New World Pictures, Marvel's parent company at the time, but the similar shrinking concept got in the way.

Which crime writer's style did Edgar Wright cite for making Scott Lang a burglar in his 2003 treatment?

Artisan wanted something more 'like a family thing'; Wright doubted the treatment ever reached Marvel.

Marvel let Wright delay Ant-Man's production so he could finish which 2013 film?

Its producer Eric Fellner had been diagnosed with cancer; Wright had submitted a third script draft by Comic-Con 2011.

Which screenwriter completed a rewrite of Ant-Man after production moved to Atlanta in 2014?

The credited screenplay went to Wright & Cornish and McKay & Rudd; the Atlanta State Archives doubled as Pym Technologies.

Why did cinematographer Russell Carpenter shoot Ant-Man in the 1.85 aspect ratio?

At 2.39 there was not enough height to show Ant-Man falling through a floor crack; a custom colour table also weathered the suit's red.

Which effects house de-aged Michael Douglas for Ant-Man's 1989 flashback?

The same firm had made Steve Rogers skinny in The First Avenger; Dax Griffin doubled for a 40-year-old Douglas.

Ant-Man's first trailer was released in an 'ant-sized' version before a full-size one. Where did the full trailer debut?

Forbes' Scott Mendelson joked Disney had released 'a teaser to a teaser to a trailer' and squeezed three news drops from one clip.

How much did Disney spend on TV advertising for Ant-Man, more than for Age of Ultron?

The extra spend was justified because Ant-Man was a new property; Ultron had received $26.9 million.

Which returning Iron Man character fronted Ant-Man's viral 'WHIH Newsfront' campaign?

Leslie Bibb reprised the journalist to cover Lang's imprisonment and the road to Civil War.

Which Hitchcock film did The New Yorker's Richard Brody compare Ant-Man to?

He called it 'the non-bombastic superhero movie'; Rotten Tomatoes settled at 83% and audiences gave it an 'A' CinemaScore.

Who plays FBI agent Jimmy Woo, Scott's parole officer, in Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Filming ran from August to November 2017 in Atlanta, San Francisco, Savannah and Hawaii.

Who wrote the screenplay for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

Hired by April 2020, he called Kang a 'top-tier, A-list Avengers villain' and wanted to explore him as a 'very lonely' human being.

Roughly how much did Quantumania gross worldwide, falling short of break-even?

It was one of the few MCU films not to break even in theatres, taking $214.5 million domestically and $261.6 million elsewhere.