Revealed today by Entertainment Weekly, the new Ant-Man poster showcases Ant-Man’s three most famous powers: shrinking, growing and riding ants. Ant-Man’s other power, mental breakdowns will hopefully be left out of the movie, at least for the first installment.
The poster, a piece of concept art created for this week’s San Diego Comic-Con features the two Ant-Man stars side-by-side while the heroic persona leaps to action in the foreground. There’s a couple points to note here, besides Paul Rudd making the exact same face that made up half of Wet Hot American Summer. There’re two Ant-Men and while that may just be because the illustrator wanted to show off Ant-Man’s powers, it’s a piece of concept art after all, the two ghost heads of the lead stars implies that maybe we’ll see both Ant-Men side by side?
I mean, that was always pretty likely. Third act team-ups are the surefire way to get fans pumped. Honestly, I just want to see Michael Douglas accuse Janet Van Dyne of giving him tongue cancer.
On a less disgusting note, we also get a look at the full Ant-Man costume design which I dig! It’s not the type of costume I’d like in the comics but its fits the “realistic” aesthetic of the MCU pretty well. The helmet does look like a modified Star Wars fighter pilot helmet though.
Even with its tumultuous pre-production (RIP In Piece, Edgar Wright), Ant-Man is expected to drop July 2015. Plan to hear a lot more about it as SDCC marches on in the following days.
