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Marvel’s Ant-Man Is ‘Pretty Funny’

It looks as though ‘Ant-Man’ will sit on the lighter end of Marvel’s comic book movie slate… as actor Bobby Cannavale talks about the film’s tone.

During an interview with Nuke The Fridge, ‘Ant-Man’ actor Bobby Cannavale explains the tone of the upcoming Marvel movie.

“It’s pretty funny,” he said. “I think so. I haven’t seen anything but it felt funny. It’s Paul [Rudd], so I think they’re not hiring [him] to be The Winter Soldier. It’s going to have a sense of levity to it, like Guardians of the Galaxy.”

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“Guardians is a blue chips superhero movie but it’s a pretty funny film,” he added. “They just got the right people. When I looked around and saw who I was surrounded by, Corey Stoll, actors I’ve seen for years in little movies that I really liked, it just felt like I belong here.”

Of course, Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ was long rumoured to be a ‘comedy’. After all, the involvement of both Edgar Wright and current director, Peyton Reed seemed to suggest a certain kind of tone. And with a number of other comedy director’s linked to the movie, there’s not a huge leap to see why that might be the case.

But judging from these comments, I’d say that ‘Ant-Man’ walks that same, light-hearted balance that ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ does so well… and I can’t help thinking that will suit a movie that focusses on a shrinking superhero.

“[It] was a really cool experience because as big as that movie is, and as really as big a production as that was, the actual work in the scenes were really fun. It felt like we were on an indie film. Rudd’s one of my oldest friends so most of our scenes are together, me and Paul and Judy Greer. Both those actors are really good improvisers. Adam McKay and Paul did a big rewrite on that script, so the scenes themselves felt like an indie film. It really felt like a comedy that we were doing. I think that probably happened because Guardians of the Galaxy was such a success. So it didn’t feel like I was working on a really serious superhero movie. It didn’t feel like Thor or something.”

Of course, how that translates to the big screen remains to be seen… but I get the feeling that ‘Ant-man’ won’t be the next ‘Dark Knight’. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Whether or not it’s a good film is another matter entirely. But from what we’ve seen so far, I can’t wait to watch Paul Rudd climb into the ‘Ant-Man’ suit.

‘Ant-Man’ heads to cinemas on 17 July 2015.

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