Michael Douglas Confirms Ant-Man at Comic-Con and Talks Edgar Wright's Departure

Actor Michael Douglas will portray Hank Pym in Marvel's Ant-Man, which has been the subject of much turmoil after director Edgar Wright left the project. Douglas confirmed in a recent interview that filming is on schedule and added Ant-Man will be at Comic-Con later this month.

"Yeah, I'm gonna go do Ant-Man in August in Atlanta," the actor told Collider when asked if filming was on schedule.

Douglas also confirmed he would be at Marvel's major Hall H presentation at Comic-Con. "Yeah! I'm going to Comic-Con," he said. "I'm even dragging my son. I promised I'm taking him out of camp ... But we gotta be back here. I've gotta give a cancer speech on Sunday morning. Marvel's 8:45 or - 8:45 on Saturday night, so we're gonna fly all night back and drop him at camp like at 5:30, 6 in the morning in the Adirondacks, and come down and talk to 2,000 head and neck surgeons."

Collider commented that Douglas seems overjoyed to play Hank Pym but disappointed that Wright is no longer directing (Peyton Reed now has the reins).

"Yeah, he's a wonderful talent," he said. "It was very disappointing, yeah. It was a big disappointment and more so for him because he had a lot of years invested and he was really the one initially who got them to even consider it, you know, the screenplay that he wrote. I'm not the producer on it and I'm an actor for hire, and, you know, Marvel certainly has a pretty amazing track record, rightly or wrongly, so I think it just was that kind of combination where although they like the idea of the individual and somebody with Edgar's individual spirit and everything, maybe just collided with an operation - I think they're all on relatively decent terms."

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