Avengers: Age of Ultron hasn't even made it to the screen but Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn't allow their fans any sort of breather. Just less than three months prior to the release date of "Age of Ultron", Marvel Studios and Walt Disney are back on the cinematic track with "Ant-Man".
Comic book aficionados have proclaimed this new addition to the growing Marvel Universe on the big screen as the major stinger between "Age of Ultron" and the arrival of "Civil War". Ant-Man who stars Paul Rudd (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, This Is 40) and who also co-wrote the screenplay for the renewed conman turned superhero is the final instalment for the year 2015 of Marvel's connected series of superhero films.
In an interview with Slashfilm, Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige discussed how Ant-Man will set the tone for Avengers:Age of Ultron and 2016's "Civil War":
"It's not [an after thought]. The truth is the phases mean a lot to me and some people but... Civil War is the start of Phase Three. It just is. And Ant-Man is a different kind of culmination of Phase Two because it very much is in the MCU."
The forty-one-year-old film producer lengthily added that: "Whether it's prison in the case of Scott Lang (Rudd) or being a very disgruntled Sokovian Twins as Wanda and Pietro are in Age of Ultron. And in that way it connects a lot."
Ant-Man which is going to have a "heist" element to its premise, will have another trailer this coming Monday, April 13. Marvel's second blockbuster also stars Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Judy Greer, Tip "Ti" Harris, David Dastmalchian, Wood Harris, Jordi Mollà and Michael Douglas. Directed by Peyton Reed, it is intended to be the twelfth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe slated on July 17, 2015.
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