<P> Thief Scott Lang must aid his mentor Dr. Hank Pym in safeguarding the mystery of the Ant - Man technology, which allows its user to decrease in size but increase in strength, from various menaces and plot a heist to defend the Earth . </P> <P> Ant - Man is directed by Peyton Reed with a screenplay written by Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and Adam McKay & Paul Rudd, from a story by Wright & Cornish, that includes both Scott Lang and Hank Pym . Edgar Wright was initially slated to direct and write the film, but left the project in May 2014 due to creative differences . In January 2013, Feige stated that Ant - Man would be the first film in Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . However, in October 2014, it was revealed that the film would be the last film of Phase Two . Pre-production started in October 2013, and principal photography took place from August to December 2014, in San Francisco, Fayette County, Georgia at Pinewood Atlanta, and Downtown Atlanta . In December 2013, Rudd was cast as Ant - Man, followed in January 2014 with the casting of Michael Douglas as Pym and the confirmation of Rudd as Lang . Ant - Man had its world premiere in Los Angeles on June 29, 2015, and was released in France on July 14, and in North America on July 17 . </P> <P> The film is set several months after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron . Scott Lang attempts to infiltrate the new Avengers headquarters in Upstate New York featured in Age of Ultron, and confronts Sam Wilson / Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie . McKay and Rudd decided to add Falcon to Ant - Man after watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier . The Russo brothers filmed the post-credit scene, which was footage from Captain America: Civil War, and features Mackie as Falcon, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America, and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Film </Th> <Th> U.S. release date </Th> <Th> Director (s) </Th> <Th> Screenwriter (s) </Th> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Captain America: Civil War </Th> <Td> May 6, 2016 (2016 - 05 - 06) </Td> <Td> Anthony and Joe Russo </Td> <Td> Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely </Td> <Td> Kevin Feige </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Doctor Strange </Th> <Td> November 4, 2016 (2016 - 11 - 04) </Td> <Td> Scott Derrickson </Td> <Td> Jon Spaihts and Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 </Th> <Td> May 5, 2017 (2017 - 05 - 05) </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> James Gunn </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spider - Man: Homecoming </Th> <Td> July 7, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 07) </Td> <Td> Jon Watts </Td> <Td> Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley and Jon Watts & Christopher Ford and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers </Td> <Td> Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Thor: Ragnarok </Th> <Td> November 3, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 03) </Td> <Td> Taika Waititi </Td> <Td> Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost </Td> <Td> Kevin Feige </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Black Panther </Th> <Td> February 16, 2018 (2018 - 02 - 16) </Td> <Td> Ryan Coogler </Td> <Td> Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Avengers: Infinity War </Th> <Td> April 27, 2018 (2018 - 04 - 27) </Td> <Td> Anthony and Joe Russo </Td> <Td> Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ant - Man and the Wasp </Th> <Td> July 6, 2018 (2018 - 07 - 06) </Td> <Td> Peyton Reed </Td> <Td> Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Paul Rudd & Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari </Td> <Td> Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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