{"id":31745,"date":"2013-12-18T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=31745"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:22:04","slug":"paul-rudd-is-ant-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/18\/paul-rudd-is-ant-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rudd Is ANT-MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PaulRudd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14848\" alt=\"PaulRudd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PaulRudd.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Sometimes great choices come down to process of elimination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/marvel-finds-ant-man-paul-666812?mobile_redirect=false\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that Marvel and Edgar Wright have chosen Paul Rudd to be their <strong>Ant-Man<\/strong>. Rudd has been in contention for the role <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/14\/gordon-levitt-rudd-on-shortlist-for-ant-man\/\">since back in October<\/a>, along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Since Gordon-Levitt has attached himself to Warner Brothers <strong>Sandman <\/strong>project, it looks like it became a one-man race.<\/p>\n<p>This casting news is rather strange since Rudd has been asked repeatedly about <strong>Ant-Man<\/strong> on the promotional tour for\u00a0<strong>Anchorman: The Legend Continues\u00a0<\/strong>and his stock answer was that it was just a rumor and he knew nothing about it. Sheeyeah right. Well played, Mr. Rudd. Well played.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, it&#8217;s a great choice. I really like Rudd as an actor. One of the main gripes people might have about him is that he has spent the last few years as part of The Apatow Repertory Players, doing comedy after comedy. But those familiar with his career know that Rudd has done well in a series of dramas, notably <strong>The Shape of Things <\/strong>and <strong>Cider House Rules<\/strong>, in the past. So don&#8217;t expect <strong>Ant-Man<\/strong> to be any more of a comedy than any other Marvel film.<\/p>\n<p>Another hit is his age. He is 44, which is a bit long-in-the-tooth for some when it comes to their action heroes. But if he is playing Hank Pym, he&#8217;ll be playing a scientist. Not many twenty-somethings have PhD&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well, if it really was down to between him and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Gordon-Levitt signed up for SANDMAN&#8230;<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/18\/paul-rudd-is-ant-man\/\" title=\"Paul Rudd Is ANT-MAN\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[6925,2706,1009,1645,289,553,6858],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-anchorman-the-legend-continues","10":"tag-ant-man","11":"tag-edgar-wright","12":"tag-joseph-gordon-levitt","13":"tag-marvel","14":"tag-paul-rudd","15":"tag-sandman"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31745"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=31745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}