PEYTON REED: In the Marvel Comics world,
Hank Pym is really like,
he is one of the elder statesmen of the Marvel world.
BRAD WINDERBAUM: Because he's one of the original Avengers,
he's someone we've been dying to bring to the big screen.
REED: Ant-Man actually is one of the most dangerous Avengers.
An incredibly powerful character.
I can shrink and that's actually really, really cool.
It isn't like I'm this big and I have the strength of a normal person.
I actually exceed the strength of a normal person.
EVANGELINE LILLY: It's not just a guy in a suit who's incredible.
It's a guy in a suit and legions of ants.
REED: Technology's finally caught up with the story of Ant-Man.
We're able to really bring the audience down into his world
in a way that's never been done before.
Scott, I need you to be the Ant-Man.
LILLY: Michael Douglas is playing Hank Pym,
who was the original Ant-Man in the original Marvel series.
RUDD: The guy is so good in so many good movies that you forget...
I'd be in the middle of scenes
and I'd just be like, "Oh, my God, Falling Down."
REED: Michael is amazing because
Michael thrives in these characters who live in a gray area.
You know they're a hero,
but you don't know that they're always gonna make the right choice.
This has been a whole new experience and I loved it.
I've never been in the Marvel world before,
never done any kind of this green screen special effects.
So Ant-Man was definitely a new experience.
We need you.
The Pym Particle is a miracle. Please.
Don't let your past determine the future.
As long as I am alive,
nobody will ever get that formula.
JOHN SLATTERY: It's a 1989 version of Hank.
I didn't know what anybody was talking about.
They'd say, "This is the first day. He looks like this."
I haven't seen what he looks like present-day.
Ants, they can do a lot of things, but they still need a leader.
Somebody that could infiltrate a place that's designed to prevent infiltration.
There was a strong heist element,
in terms of breaking into Pym Industries' head offices
and snatching and stealing the secrets
that Corey Stoll's character has been working on.
RUDD: So excited to work on this movie.
The only thing Marvel is really interested in
is how good the movie can be.
BOBBY CANNAVALE: With Paul, people really identify with him
because he really is just one of us. He's just a regular good guy.
Paul is just killing it as Ant-Man. The character's just really likeable.
And I think that they're gonna feel for the guy and want him to succeed.
Almost like a little bit of a Robin Hood kind of thing.
I think our first move should be calling the Avengers.
One of the things that I was really happy to discover
doing a movie at Marvel is,
they all have to work within this larger universe.
But the amazing thing is that
they're all allowed and actually encouraged
to have their own individual tones and idiosyncrasies.
So I was really thrilled to find out
that this movie is encouraged to have its own specific tone.
And the tone of this movie, it's comedic but it's also a heist movie.
So there's a rhythm that it has to have.
And that rhythm really affected the way I shot the movie,
and then, in terms of music, the way we scored the movie.
A little bit of jazzy vibe to it and also really fun.
LILLY: In every good heist movie, you need that moment
where there's all this technical jargon flying back and forth
and the laymen sitting in their seats are like, "They're so smart.
"I have no idea what's going on but they're gonna kick ass. I love it!"
It feels like an Ocean's Eleven movie,
where you've got all these different little special teams.
REED: Let's give it more heist tropes.
There are a couple times where Luis has these tips about a possible thing.
And the way we present it with him telling the story
and as this unreliable narrator
and the camera's whipping around to these different people.
"Yeah, crazy-stupid fine."
REED: Scott is estranged from his ex-wife and from his daughter,
and these guys are his family in the movie.
When they come back towards the end of the movie,
when he suggests, "We might need some other guys to pull this thing off,"
there's such an uplift from the audience when they see the movie
'cause you just love these characters.
It's like Hawaiian pizza.
You take some ham and some pineapple and some cheese,
and you're like, "That's never gonna work."
But in a weird way, it does.
They feel each other's pain because they're trying to do the right thing
and society isn't trying to give them a second chance
and not giving them a break.
So ultimately, they resort to their instincts.
Wait a minute! Get out of that van!
It's too loud, there's a tank. I can't hear you!
There are things about the kind of token good guys in the movie
who do things that are not so good.
It's not that easy for an ex-con to get any kind ofjobs.
So, then we go on a heist,
and then we start using our own particular skills for that heist.
DASTMALCHIAN: We're this gang of Knucklehead criminals
that are trying to turn something around.
PEÑA: We're actually doing good work.
And it's funny. We're like, "Are we doing...
"Are we the good guys here?"
Yeah, we're the good guys.
Feels kinda weird, you know.
I'm Shepherd Frankel, the production designer on Ant-Man,
and we're currently sitting in Luis' van.
Luis is really proud of his van,
but we see it as a less-than-fancy van.
- It's nice. - Yeah, right?
Yeah, that van, it definitely smells.
You just try to clean a turd and polish a turd,
but it's still a turd.
And it's even the color of a turd.
The van, man, it started out as a not-so-glamorous vehicle
and turned into a not-so "not-so-glamorous" vehicle.
- Back it up. - Okay.
We just back it up.
Unless we break in and steal the Yellowjacket
and destroy all the data,
Darren Cross is gonna unleash chaos upon the world.
We're at Pym Technologies tonight, and we're going to blow it up.
This is the climax of our film,
and the setting of the big heist that pays off
all the setup that we've been building throughout the entire movie.
Scott Lang, Hank Pym, and Hope van Dyne
have been meticulously planning this event,
and it all pays off right here.
We're at the Georgia Archives building
and it was a long road trying to find a location
that felt like it could be a place Hank Pym built in the early '90s
but also houses all the future technologies
that his protégé, Darren Cross, puts into it and builds within it.
The charges are set.
We've gotta find a way out of here. And fast.
Don't worry.
I'm not gonna die.
And neither are you.
WINDERBAUM: A tank, which seems like an innocuous little keychain
throughout the entire movie,
is going to suddenly expand in the 10th story of a giant building
and careen through the side,
smash into a fountain and explode.
We need a doctor!
We decided we would do it as a full-sized element.
We built a wall that replicates the side of the building.
We built, basically, a steel shape that's the same size as the tank.
It weighs about 3 tons.
We put it on a track back behind the wall
and we shot it through the wall at 25 miles an hour.
Look at how dirty and how messy and how great it looked
with all that debris, all that stuff flying through the air and stuff breaking.
It's hard, probably, to model that in computers.
It's just, you get so much value out of something like this on set.
It just looks different.
Multiple shots fired!
And there's a tank.
KEVIN FEIGE: One of the things that's so fun about working on Marvel films
is you get to adapt the costumes from the comic books.
We've tried to keep very faithful to the Marvel concept
because that's ultimately the goal.
IVO COVENEY: They gave us a couple of shots
of the helmet and of the suit, and I basically worked from that.
SHELDON: Anything that is close-up on him...
He wears his beauty suit which has got hard shoulders,
hard corners, hard helmet.
If he has to do a stunt,
he would wear one that all those elements are made in a rubber form.
So it's much more bendable and he can move more.
FEIGE: It never gets old. You never lose that rush
of seeing the actor for the first time in the finished version of the costume.
RUDD: When I put it on the first time, I stood differently.
And I couldn't get over the fact that I was in the Ant-Man suit.
I actually was like, "Man I wish I had a suit."
That's the only time you ever think of like,
"I wish I had a suit in one of these movies."
He walked into the room and I was just like, "Oh, my God, that's so cool!"
He's in, like, an Eddie Murphy Raw suit.
So, it's pretty funny.
Sexy!
(LAUGHS)
Nah, man, I was just... What if you have to pee?
I don't see a zipper or nothing, man.
It reminds me in some ways of Evel Knievel.
They even mistakenly say, "That's just his motorcycle suit."
It feels like a motorcycle suit in some ways.
And even the shrinking device, it's just a big red button on the thing.
There's something very analog about this suit.
I'm heavily biased on this issue, obviously,
but I think the Ant-Man suit is the best-designed suit
in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
SHELDON: Paul was working out a lot.
So we knew from his first fitting that he would lose a lot of weight
by the time we got to the final suit.
I think he's lost about 5.5 inches off his waist
since November.
From the very first frame of the movie when you see Paul,
it's like, "Oh wow, Paul Rudd!
"That dude is chiseled. He's badass!"
(PRISONERS GROAN)
For about a year before we started shooting,
I had to stop doing anything fun
and then go to the gym a lot.
I had to take these tumbling classes,
learn how to do flips and light parkour.
And it was just complete immersion
in trying to get into shape and focused for the job at hand,
'cause normally the parts I play,
they don't ever even want me in shape.
I did some of the MoCap stuff early on in the first week,
and I was like, I've been working hard for a year.
And I'm rolling around. I'm doing flips and I'm doing...
And after about 30 minutes,
(SIGHS) I said, "I gotta take 10 minutes.
"This is really hard. I'm exhausted. It's super-tiring."
And then Colin, who's doing things like
falling three stories and landing on a metal bar
and then flipping over again,
would just do it all day. Never complained.
He's got that stunt-guy thing that just. ..
They are cowboys.
They don't complain. They just get up, do it again.
Even the stunt team, even the other stunt-people were like,
"Colin is insane. He's unbelievable."
I think he's the real superhero of the movie.
TREVOR HABBERSTAD: We are on the bathtub set,
and this is for Scott's first shrink.
We're gonna pull Colin along, start him here, hang him on the wires,
run, run, run, up as high as they want us to take him.
RUDD: The only thing that's uncomfortable about that wirework
is the harness digs into places that you don't really want it getting dug into.
But no, it's not too bad. And it's fun.
It's all really fun.
You wanna show me how to punch?
Show me...
(GROANS)
That's how you punch.
Hope van Dyne is an expert at Muay Thai,
(SCOTT GRUNTS)
which I'm obviously not.
- And I had to learn... - Uncle.
...how to, hopefully, move in a convincing way
to make it seem like I could be an expert
and I could train a man who's been in prison
and been in a lot of fistfights how to properly fight
and kick his ass, which I do.
And it's pretty cool.
REED: Paul had so much... He was writing, he was working out.
And I think Evangeline really...
She dove into that fight choreography.
I would not wanna go into the ring with Evangeline Lilly.
- Yeah. - Gimme something! Gimme something!
- I have glasses... - Punch him in the stomach!
Abort, Scott! Abort now!
It's okay. He can't see me.
I can see you.
He can see me.
They wanted an opportunity
to introduce Ant-Man into the Avengers world,
because eventually, hopefully...
In the comic book, he becomes an Avenger.
So, voilà, I come and help that storyline out.
We are about halfway through the Ant-Man versus Falcon fight.
This is a scene where Ant-Man is small.
He's punching Falcon in the face,
and Falcon uses his jets and goes flying off backwards
while he's firing, hopefully trying to hit Ant-Man while he's small.
It's really important to me that Cap never finds out about this.
We're introducing not only a pillar of the MCU in Hank Pym,
but also the future of the MCU with Scott Lang.
He's going to be Ant-Man in Captain America: Civil War
and beyond,
and Hope van Dyne is also gonna have her place in the MCU in a big way,
taking on the mantle of the Wasp that her mother once had.
It's about damn time.
It helped in planting certain seeds that,
if we're fortunate enough to get to do another Ant-Man,
to explore those later on.
Each time these characters are in a different film,
they inherit some DNA from that project they could bring over,
like having a new experience changes you in some way.
And I think it's gonna be really interesting to see
how Paul Rudd as Scott Lang
mixes with the Avengers that are in Captain America 3.
I think he's gonna be a standout.
His power set is so interesting compared to the other group,
but he also has the comedic sensibilities
that are really gonna be fun to watch.
Nobody has any idea how unique it is, how different it is,
and how people are gonna wanna see this little guy
take on all the villains of the world.
- Cut it. - MAN: All right.
That's officially it.
That is the end, the wrap on principal photography for Ant-Man.
- Thank you all so much. - (ALL CHEERING)