Peyton Reed hopes ‘Ant-Man’ movies the most personal of the Marvel films

PEYTON Reed hopes the ‘AntMan' movies are the “most personal” of the Marvel films.

The 54-year- old director has helmed both films in the franchise, and Peyton has admitted he has “very different storytelling ambitions” when compared to some of the other Marvel movies.

He shared: “I really just use myself as the moviegoer, as a litmus test in terms of what they have and haven't seen. (At) Marvel, no one wants to repeat themselves, no one wants to bore an audience.”

Peyton also revealed that even though the ‘Ant-Man' movies are based on comic books, he worked with Spyridon Michalakis - the film's technical consultant and a quantum physicist - to ensure that the science behind the films was accurate.

Speaking to TechCrunch, he explained: “We don't want to give the audience a headache - but 20, 30, 50 years from now, we don't want people to say, ‘Oh man, that was way off, that has no bearing on reality.'”

A number of scenes featured in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp' were shot on the streets of San

...we’d done a shrinking movie already, so we played with variable size while trying to keep it photo realistic. Peyton Reed, director

Francisco.

And Peyton (above) admitted that the real-life setting created “its own challenges”, especially as the central character, Scott Lang - who is also known as AntMan - has to keep changing size throughout the movie.

He said: “Shooting in daylight, exterior San Francisco, you had to believe that Giant Man was really there.

“That was probably the biggest overall challenge - we'd done a shrinking movie already, so we played with variable size while trying to keep it photo realistic.”