Marvels Ant-Man Getting a Movie Deal?!?

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That's the way it looks. Now, with all the thousands of comic book characters to choose from, why Ant-Man? Im still waiting for the "Micronauts" to be brought to the big screens, so what do I know. Word has it that "Marvel Studios' Ant-Man is currently in script development as a major motion picture."

There you have it.. the Ant-Man won't be "Wee-Man" for much longer.

For those who may not know the history of "Ant-Man", here's a brief overview:

Bio-scientist 'Dr. Henry Pym', debuted in Marvel Comics' "Tales To Astonish" #27 (1962), as "The Man in the Ant Hill", who discovers a liquid that evaporates into a gas, reducing a man to the size of an insect. Inhaling the fumes Pym shrinks in size, scurries along the floor and soon finds himself trapped in an ant hill. Eventually he returns to his normal size, deems the formula too unpredictable and locks it away.

In "Tales To Astonish" #35, Marvel editor Stan "The Man" Lee re-introduced Pym as the superhero Ant-Man, able to shrink to the size of an ant, while retaining his full-size strength.

Drawn by Jack "King" Kirby and scripted by Lee's brother Larry Leiber, Pym's adventures continued as word of his shrinking fluid leaks out to weapons-hungry governments. His laboratory is soon taken over by enemy cold war agents, but donning a costume and 'cybernetic' helmet to communicate with worker ants, he organizes a nearby nest to attack the spies.

As he rides the ants like a wild west cowboy, Pym's cybernetic commands are obeyed by the insects and they jam up the intruders' guns, swarming in stinging masses.

Some years later, Ant-Man morphed into "Giant-Man", aka "Goliath", becoming a member of "The Avengers" with his longtime love "The Wasp".

Source: Hollywood North Reporter

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