{"id":64259,"date":"2014-08-19T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=64259"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:32:48","slug":"marvels-ant-man-is-happening-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/marvels-ant-man-is-happening-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel&#8217;s Ant-Man is happening right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64260\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64260\" alt=\"Ant-Man filming kicks off today\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antman-616x346.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ant-Man filming kicks off today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marvel\u2019s <em><strong>Ant-Man<\/strong><\/em> has officially started filming today, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrPeytonReed\/status\/501339430893129728\">director Peyton Reed posted a celebratory tweet<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Also to dance about is recent casting news. Already announced were Paul Rudd (<strong><i>Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy<\/i><\/strong>) as Scott Lang, aka. Ant-Man, Michael Douglas (<strong><i>Wall Street<\/i><\/strong>) as Dr Hank Pym, and Evangeline Lilly (<strong><i>Lost<\/i><\/strong>) as Pym\u2019s daughter Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Late additions include Bobby Cannavale (<strong><i>Boardwalk Empire<\/i><\/strong>), Judy Greer (<strong><i>Archer<\/i><\/strong>), Corey Stoll (<strong><i>House Of Cards<\/i><\/strong>), Michael Pe\u00f1a (<strong><i>End Of Watch<\/i><\/strong>), John Slattery (<strong><i>Mad Men<\/i><\/strong>), comedian Gregg Turkington and rapper TI. Expect the cast to be in high demand(-ible) very soon.<\/p>\n<p>What with Edgar Wright\u2019s departure from the film after years of development in May, there has been a lot of negative press surrounding it, and massive adjustments to the screenplay by Adam McKay, Kevin Weisman and Matt Gerard since. Reed is going to have to up the <em>ant<\/em>-e if he\u2019s going to win back the Wright fans.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently Reed can lift 50 times his own body weight, so he\u2019ll have no trouble carrying the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ant-Man<\/em>\u00a0will be released on 17 July 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong><strong><strong>Find out more about the comics that inspired the film with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/id798733306\">new digital magazine Uncanny Comics<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peyton Reed kicks off filming Ant-Man with a celebratory tweet [cue party poppers]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":64260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[233,3818],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}