MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind Ant-Man (2015)

8. Stan Lee's Joy

On his commentary, Peyton Reed talks about Stan Lee, who he says was very excited about the movie being made, because it would fix an issue that he'd always had with the comics:

"In his mind, we were finally going to see Ant-Man as he always imagined Ant-Man. He said in the comics it was never really drawn to scale as he imagined it, because you couldn’t in a comic panel and you can do things in film you can’t do in the comic."

Scale was always going to be an important part of making the movie, particularly in the effects-heavy sequences. Apparently, there are around 1,500-1,600 visual effects shots in there and almost all of them was challenging in terms of getting scale right according to the director:

Every single shot of Ant-Man whether he’s running or jumping or flying an Ant, how big he was in the frame and issues of scale and size was always an issue on all these shots. A regular medium shot of Ant-Man, in general, was not very good because it felt like, “Oh, he’s regular size now.” These really close close-ups were effective to see where he is psychologically. When he’s smaller in frame, it feels much more satisfying than these snap zooms to really show the scale. Imagine being a cameraman and trying to shoot Ant-Man and trying to get the focus right and him in frame would be next to impossible, so we had fun with that idea too.