This is obviously the week of Ant-Man since the first teaser was released on Tuesday. Next up, is Entertainment Weekly's issue featuring Ant-Man. In other words, what follows is not a spoiler alert due to the fact the issue will be on newsstands everywhere.
What was previously known about the Ant-Man plot was that it will center around being a heist movie. This was an understatement, because it's now revealed that there will be lots of stealing (remember stealing is bad, kids) in Ant-Man... LOTS.
EW writes:
"When we first meet [Scott] Lang, he is in prison for stealing from the CEO of a company that was itself stealing from its employees. 'There’s a prison fight and you’ve got to buy Paul [Rudd] in that role,' says [Ant-Man director Peyton] Reed. Lang longs to go straight—he has a young daughter he wants to build a relationship with—but when he leaves the big house, he ends up nabbing [actor Michael Douglas' Hank] Pym’s Ant-Man suit. Was he set up? 'There might be stuff going on that Scott doesn’t know about that’s a lot bigger than him,' Reed says.
"Having proven his light-fingered bona fides, Lang is trained by Pym, who plans to use him to thwart Darren Cross (played by actor Corey Stoll). Cross is a former protégé of Pym’s who has developed his own version of the Ant-Man technology and created the alter ego Yellowjacket. Pym and Lang’s attempt to steal the Yellowjacket suit is both assisted and complicated by [actor Evangeline] Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne. 'She’s not been in her father’s life for a long time,' Lilly says. 'So her arc in the movie—as Scott’s is with his daughter—is trying to find a relationship.'
So Rudd steals from a CEO, gets caught, goes to jail, gets out, then steals the Ant-Man suit, gets caught again and gets a second chance on life from Pym (and to be Ant-Man). However, Lang's second chance revolves around stealing (again) the Yellowjacket suit from Pym's former protégé Cross with the help of Pym and his daughter Hope.
Scott Lang is a klepto if you couldn't already tell.
Scott Lang is a klepto if you couldn't already tell.
Ant-Man releases in theaters on July 17, 2015.
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