When are you seeing Ant-Man?

[binary solo]

AlfredoTurkey said:

binary solo said:

But as you are speaking for the vast majority of the population, who are not marvel comic fans, it is understandable that to the uninitiated the idea of an Ant-Man does seem like scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

That's all I was talking about. The "average" joe. I understand that comic book enthusiasts will enjoy a... comic book based movie that stays true to the source material. But in order for them to be smash hits, they have to appeal to those who don't and have never read a comic book. Ant-Man, is not something that really appeals to people like Supermam,Spiderman,Batman or the Avengers. 

And the fact that movie executives actually green lit something like this, KNOWING what I just said, tells me that they're just throwing things at a wall to see what sticks. 

But that's not true, it's all part of a grand plan, which has been mapped out through to 2019. They planned out the roster of superheroes they want in the phase 3 Avengers movies and how they will introduce them to the movie public. One might ask why Ant-Man gets a solo movie but Falcon, Black Widow and Hawk-eye didn't (actually Hawk-eye and Black Widow could have had a duo movie, but they were needed in earlier movies to fill out the roster for the original Avengers movies). One possible difference is that Ant-Man's tech-powers need a decent amount of explanation to be accepted by the average joe, whereas Hawke-eye, Black Widow and Falcon have oridinary arse-kicking skills and obvious tech that they don't need explanation beyond few scenes. The same is the case with the upcoming solo movies: Black Panther, Dr Strange, Captain Marvel, all of their abilities require more background than just a few scenes thrown in to the current crop of movies.