16 Deleted Comic Book Movie Scenes You're Not Allowed To See

11. Ant-Man's Original Opening

The original plan for Ant-Man - not Edgar Wright's but after he left - was for it to open with an invisible man attack set-piece in the 1960s showing Hank Pym stealing microfilm from a Cuban general. According to Peyton Reed:

It was basically a standalone sequence where you really did not see it was Hank Pym. He was retrieving some microfilm from this, originally Cuban general and then it because a Panamanian general… It really was designed in those early drafts to be almost like a Bond movie standalone scene in the beginning. It was going to show the powers. You never saw Ant-Man, it almost felt like an Invisible Man sequence, and it’s really, really cool.

We actually did see some of it, in the flash-back footage that ultimately became Pym's attack on the 10 Rings base, but that was only part of it.

Why It Was Cut

The scene was actually shot and cut together, but it didn't really fit, according to Reed:

It started to feel tonally disconnected from the movie we were making and story-wise, and it also kind of like, it set a standalone adventure, but it didn’t just connect to the rest of our story.

And again, the reason it didn't make it onto the blu-ray came down to Marvel's reluctance to share everything they shoot.