LA Times · Jul 13, 2015
Peyton Reed says he'll show you how Ant-Man is cool
Ant-Man shrinks and controls ants. "We’re going to show you absolutely how that’s cool," director Peyton Reed says. (Marvel)There are the superheroes everyone knows and loves, the ones kids dress up as for Halloween, the ones whose logos and square-jawed faces are emblazoned on everything from lunchboxes to dorm-room posters to tighty-whities.
And then there is Ant-Man.
The Marvel Comics hero — whose suit enables him to shrink to microscopic size and communicate with ants — boasts an illustrious nearly 50-year history and was a founding member of the Avengers. But in terms of mainstream awareness, Ant-Man is to marquee heroes like Batman and Spider-Man roughly what a bug is to an elephant.