According to The Wrap, the American Hustle actor has been offered a role in the Marvel film and wants to join the project for its May production start. (Marvel, as always, has denied the report.) It’s not clear at this point who Pena would play in Ant-Man.
Paul Rudd will star as Scott Lang, who was the second Ant-Man in the Marvel comic books. Douglas’ Pym was the first to bear that name in the comics (and possibly in the movie as well). Wright, who co-wrote the film with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), hinted on Twitter yesterday that Ant-Man could flash-back to the 1960s at some point to depict a younger Pym in action… though Pena doesn’t really seem like a young Michael Douglas, does he?