小蟻人，大冒險
娛樂直播室
作者：by Clark Collis
The Teeny-tiny Adventures of Ant-Man
It’s the shoot[拍攝] for Marvel’s注1 new superhero movie Ant-Man at Pinewood Atlanta Studios. Paul Rudd stars[由……主演] as former prisoner Scott Lang， who can shrink[收縮] to microscopic[微小的] size thanks to a special suit， as well as communicate with his namesake[同名物] insects courtesy of[經由……提供] his helmet. Douglas plays inventor Hank Pym， creator of the outerwear[外衣]， and Evangeline Lilly is Pym’s daughter， Hope Van Dyne.
Ant-man， little-known and just plain little， has an image problem that even his new director acknowledges.“When you’re in a movie theater and you see a poster for a movie called Ant-Man， it’s like， ‘Well， how is that cool？’”Reed says. Lilly， fresh off[剛從……] her run as an elf[精靈] in the Hobbit movies， had never heard of the character when Marvel first approached her. “They said， ‘We’re interested in you for a role in Ant-Man，’” she says. “And I actually laughed.”
The history of this film is almost as complicated[複雜的] as the history of the character. In December 2013， Marvel announced that Rudd， a longtime friend of Wright’s， had been cast[出演] in the lead role. Just as Ant-Man might seem a strange candidate[候選人] to become a big-screen superhero， the Anchorman注2 and Role Models注3 star seemed an odd choice to play one. But Feige insists Rudd was perfect for a hero with an unheroic[不英勇的] history. “We wanted Scott Lang to have made mistakes that cost him dearly，” he says. “But we wanted the audience to support him despite that. Paul Rudd can do almost anything and you’re still charmed[迷住] by him.”
The studio’s collective blood pressure[血壓] finally dropped after they met with Reed， who had read Marvel comics as a child and has known studio president Feige for more than a decade. Marvel then recruited[招聘] rising screenwriting[電影劇本創作] team Gabriel Ferrari and Andrew Barrer to rewrite until everyone was satisfied.
Despite all that script drama， Rudd says he still sees the narrative blueprint[藍圖] Wright and Cornish created. “It’s been an emotional roller coaster[過山車]， but I’m very excited now.” he says.