I'd much rather see Eric O'Grady than Hank Pym or Scott Lang in an Ant-Man movie. He is a much better character. Especially with Edgar Wright & joe Cornish on board. They'd nail the humor from Irredeemable Ant-Man & O'Grady's other appearances. It would be really, really funny along with the action inherent in a big budget marvel movie.
Pym is the original but he is a bit boring (616) or an obnoxious lunatic (Ultimate). Lang? He's a caretaker Ant-Man at best. Eric O'Grady is a creep but at least he's very entertaining to read/watch. Just with all the immoral stuff he gets up too with his suit in between the superheroics. All in all, he's a better fit to the action comedy genre that Wright & Cornish generally do... His suit from Irredeemable Ant-Man is much better too.
@sumafatrider: I see him doing something like option 2. Taking on Hub City's crime figures and corrupt politicians in a big story lasting a couple of seasons. Out with that, in fact to explain where I see series after the first couple of seasons I have to mention the O'Neil Question comics. One of the many things I like about that comic series is that Vic ultimately loses his battle with Hub City's endemic corruption and leaves it. I'd like to see that at the end of season 2. Then for him to travel around trying to find himself, getting involved with an another Mcguffin that leads him against other forms of corruption and ultimately going back to take on Hub City again. I agree, he should have scenes like in Sherlock Holmes that highlight his detective skills. To me though the talking to the city thing, the whole meta-detective/urban shaman would be what I really want to see. I also like that O'Neil took how disagreeable and quite horrible Vic was in his first appearances (and he was). And had the character suffer a life changing event where he realised that all his black/white moral judgements and Randian view points were what they were, B.S. I would also like that as part of the origin story for the series. With the 'urban shaman' shtick just a natural extension of his martial art skills, meditation, formidable deductive skills, his quest to understand and better himself (which was a major theme of the O'Neil series). I have a lot of messy ideas that contradict each other as you can see but hopefully at least some of that made some sense?
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