Us comic book fans know full well that Ultron is Hank Pym, aka Ant-Man's, big claim to fame and main villain. His other villains are quite...cheesy. We also know that Avengers 2's main villain will in fact be Ultron, leaving many to speculate that Ultron's origin story will be altered to stem from Tony Stark and not Hank Pym. This leaves Ant-Man without a clear fan favorite villain.
Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, The World's End, Hot Fuzz), director for Marvel's upcoming Ant-Man movie spoke on his decision to not use Ultron as his main villain, "It was never in my script. Because even just to sort of set up what Ant-Man does is enough for one movie. It's why I think "Iron Man" is extremely successful because it keeps it really simple. You have one [villain] sort of -- the villain comes from the hero's technology. Its simple. So I think why that film really works and why, sometime, superhero films fail -- or they have mixed results -- because they have to set up a hero and a villain at the same time. And that's really tough. And sometimes its unbalanced."
Wright also mentions that he is enjoying that Ant-Man, while relatively popular among comic book fans, isn't very popular in mainstream and his backstory is not well known. "I think theres something in that its a lesser known character, there's hopefully more license. For the one percent of people who are like "Wait, Hank Pym would never do that!" there's 99 percent going "Who's Hank Pym?" So, to me, the source material is great but it also frees you up to be like: I'm going to make a movie. This movie is not going to represent 50 years of Marcel comics because thats impossible. But I'm going to make a 100 minute movie -- or a 110 minutes [laughs]."
Now comes the speculation. Based off of Wright's comments, will Hank Pym's foe be Scott Lang who steals Hank Pym's technology? If so, can we get Bradley Cooper for that part? That'd be excellent.
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