It took a while, but Edgar Wright’s test footage for his upcoming Ant-Man has finally come online for all to see.
Just in case you had any doubts about whether or not the incredible Edgar Wright would be able to make a badass out of the tiniest Avenger, the test footage that he premiered at last year’s Comic-Con has finally hit the Internet.
At the The Best of BUG event in London, the footage was shown to an audience of hundreds of people, and some of them just happened to have their cell phones ready. Well…dozens of them seemed to have their cell phones ready.
We’ve dreamt about it, we’ve thought about it, and some of us have even asked our friends to draw out the images frame-by-frame from memory in order to glean an idea of what Edgar Wright’s vision for the Ant-Man would be.
We have no idea when or if the footage will be made available in high-definition (perhaps it’s the ending sequence for Iron Man 3 or Thor: The Dark World?), so this bootleg quality will have to work for now.
Thanks to CBM for finding a workable link. Enjoy it while you can! Disney, you can go ahead and e-mail us now. Sorry!
Update: It’s been taken down, stay tuned!
Update #2: We found another copy! Huzzah!
Update #3: Aaaaaand it’s gone.
Update #4: Back up! Hallelujah! Thanks to The Daily Blam!
Update #5: And then it was gone, but then it came back!
Update #6: Man, these videos are dropping like flies! Here’s the most recent mirror, though there’s no telling how long it’ll be up. Enjoy!
Update #7: Aaaaand it’s gone forever. Looks like Disney carpet-bombed the internet and managed to get every copy taken offline. We’re sure there are a few out there, but as of right now, our searches have turned up nothing. If you were late to the party, feel free to read our description below, or look at an artist’s storyboard of it (linked above).
For those that inevitably come late to the party, the video starts with a heavily equipped Ant-Man peering in at two guards from a cooling vent. He springs into action and starts to run down the hallway. The two guards don’t notice, until a full-sized Ant-Man snaps in front of them. They draw their guns, but Ant-Man has already vanished.
We snap to a microscopic vision of Ant-Man running up the barrel of the first guard’s gun. The hero quickly dispatches the first guard, and then grabs the second by his tie and flips him out the window. The scene ends with Ant-Man (who looks absolutely pumped to have just knocked out two guards so easily) getting into an elevator, pressing the button, and exploding some sort of explosive right before the elevator doors close.
Since Ant-Man is wearing that excellently designed face gear, we still have no idea which actor we’ll see underneath the body armor on November 6, 2015. We do know one thing for sure, though: It won’t be Alan Tudyk.