Monday, October 27, 2014

Hank/Ant-Man and Janet/Wasp Need a Huge Spotlight in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!


When I learned that lead actor Paul Rudd is instead going to play criminal thief Scott Lang (the second person to be Ant-Man) and that Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man) will eventually be played by a 2-time Academy Award-winning, 70-year-old Michael Douglas, I started to remind myself that Marvel really need to make a movie/TV project to develop the backstory of Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym. So if Michael Douglas is not going to be in the Ant-Man costume, then I would suggest maybe a younger actor to physically look like Douglas himself. He should also have the original Ant-Man comic book personality mixed with the love-for-science (without the pacifist ways that makes him so weak in many fights) attitude in the underrated, better-written, & beautifully-animated cartoon The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. I hope that if the latest Ant-Man from Bring It On director Peyton Reed is a big success next summer after Avengers: Age of Ultron, then maybe Marvel should consider developing an ABC/Netflix Original TV show (same format as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, and Marvel's Daredevil) that focuses on Hank Pym's early days as the original Ant-ManWish that Ultron (played by James Spader) does share some connection with Michael Douglas' Hank Pym other than being "Tony Stark's creation." Depending if whether or not, the latest Avengers blockbuster movie sequel will have any sort of impact on the Ant-Man movie 2 months after its official debut. But most of all, they also need to find someone who might make an excellent Janet Van Dyne A.K.A. Wasp! I'd be glad for her Wasp character to have the fun-loving and feisty attitude from her Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes counterpart! Too bad it won't be Evangeline Lilly since, from what I learn, she is actually going to be Hank Pym's daughter named "Hope Van Dyne." But if what I hear is true about Jan being killed off prior to the post-Avengers 2 film, then I would suggest that they let the original Wasp (and I mean Janet, of course!) play an important & bigger role in an Ant-Man prequel television series where she actually fought alongside her beloved Hank (as THE Wasp) against the forces of evil (like Egghead, maybe) prior to their marriage and birth of their lovely daughter. If none of that is ever coming to fruition like most other potential fan-desired things we Marvel fans want to see in the MCU, then the only Hank Pym-Ant-Man and Jan Van Dyne-Wasp memories we would ever cherish is in the original comics (I bought a collection book of the Ant-Man/Giant Man comics from Barnes & Noble) and the forever-as-always best written Marvel animated Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon.

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