Ant-Man Alternate Ending Revealed By Director Peyton Reed

            

        Marvel's latest installment to their ever growing franchise has had a rough start  during its development. It spent almost 10 years in development hell, and just before the filming actually begun, director Edgar Wright - who has been attached to the film for a long time - decided to leave the project due to creative differences. Peyton Reed was brought on board in the last minute which delayed the film further. Changes in the script had to be made, which didn't bode well for fans and critics. Quite surprisingly however, Ant-Man still turned out to be a big hit for Marvel studios.

            That being said, it still had some revisions made in order to tie it up with the upcoming films from Marvel, particularly 'Captain America: Civil War'. Ant-Man has been out in theaters this week, but if you still haven't seen this movie yet be aware that there will be spoilers in the following paragraphs.

            Now that we got that out of the way, we first take a look at the ending of  Ant-Man. If you have seen the film, we know that Ant-Man ends with the Avengers member Falcon (Anthony Mackie) looking for Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) as told by Luis (Michael Pena). This is obviously a set up for the Civil War, just like the post-credits scene in the film.

           

       As it turns out however, this wasn't the original plan for the ending. Director Peyton Reed recently revealed to Cinema Blend that Ant-Man was supposed to end differently. The original Ant-Man script was planned to end with a showdown against Mitchell Carson (Michael Donovan), whom we first saw during the 80s scene as a high ranking S.H.I.E.L.D member who turns out to be an undercover Hydra agent. The film shows Carson trying to purchase the Yellowjacket suit developed by Darren Cross, but ended up stealing the Cross particles (a version of Hank's “Pym Particles”) instead. According to Reed, this particular storyline was meant to be close-ended.

            The director said that “At the end of the movie he gets away and has these Cross particles, and there was a sequence where Ant-Man has an encounter with him. But then for a couple reasons, it felt like maybe we should leave those particles out there. In that original thing, he took Martin Donovan out and got the particles.”

            It's unclear however if this particular change of having the Cross Particle out there for other villains to utilize as seen in the ending would play out in Marvel's phase 3, which begins with Civil War. What we know so far is that Ant-Man will be appearing in said film. Photos from the filming location don't seem to show Paul Rudd during the shoot, but we expect to see him in the next months playing around with the rest of the Avengers off-cam in the filming location of The Russo Brothers’ film.