Drafts

It took us awhile to get today's Ant-Man text to a place we liked. Here are the first three drafts compared to the final version as a little behind the scenes look at our process.

Draft 1

Scott Lang: Hey, bad news, I was captured for a little while and they took your Ant-man tech.

Hank Pym: Oh for the love God. Who has it?

SL: Tony Stark.

HP: Well that was the worst possible answer you could have given.

SL: Tony is such an ego maniac he could cause irreparable damage with your tech.

HP: We're fine. I just paid him a visit. He's using my tech to make himself 4 inches taller.

SL: Wow. I guess when you give limitless power to an ego maniac it makes sense it'll be wasted.

HP: For a century the Stark family have been the smartest dumb people in the world.

Draft 2

Scott Lang: Hey, bad news, I was captured for a little while and they took your Ant-man tech.

Hank Pym: Oh for the love God. Who has it?

SL: Tony Stark.

HP: Well that was the worst possible answer you could have given.

SL: I'm sorry. Tony is an ego maniac, he could cause irreparable damage with your tech.

HP: We're fine. I just paid him a visit. He gave it all back.

SL: He did? That was nice of him.

HP: He said "Cool suit have fun with it Tiny Tot."

SL: Figures. His ego's too big to let him be physically small.

Draft 3

Scott Lang: Hey, bad news, I was captured for a little while and they took your Ant-man tech.

Hank Pym: Oh for the love God. Who has it?

SL: Tony Stark.

HP: Well that was the worst possible answer you could have given. If he miniaturized his armour we're screwed. Oh god he's calling me right now.

SL: What'd he say?

HP: Well he did manage to miniaturize his armour. But he has no idea how any of it works and he lost his amor somewhere in the carpet. He asked me to come take the tech away.

SL: Ha! What an idiot. Even I figured out how to use your tech and I'm the dumbest guy I know.

Final version:

Tony: I've been playing around with this Antman tech I took when we arrested you.

Scott: Hey! Don't touch that, that's mine! Well it's Hanks, but he lets me use it!

T: You can have it back if you help me.

S: What do you need?

T: I tried to incorporate the shrinking tech into my armour but I just shrunk 12 suits (and maybe Pepper). I've got a real "Honey I shrunk a trillion dollars of tech and maybe my girlfriend and lost them in the carpet" situation. What do I do?

S: Have the ants in your apartment help find them.

T: I don't have ants in my apartment! I live in a penthouse in the sky.

S: Well la de da mister fancy pants doesn't have ants OR a girlfriend OR a trillion dollars in tech.