Fan Casting Dr. Henry Pym in Edgar Wright's Astonishing Ant-Man

Dr. Henry Pym is a brilliant particle physicist with a solid knowledge of other scientific fields. A brilliant scientist, Dr. Pym earned his Ph.D. in Particle Physics in less than ten years after graduating high school. Employed by Dynatechnics (a materials science firm with contracts with nearly every manufacturing company in the world, headquartered in Chicago but with offices across the Rust Belt), Dr. Pym discovered the existence of sub-atomic particles which interacted with an extradimensional realm where mass is virtual instead of real, allowing people and objects to shrink to microscopic size and then return to normal. In his spare time, Dr. Pym studied ants, and discovered a means of communicating with them using an electronic helmet he had designed. One night while late in the lab he accidentally shrunk himself and who he thought was a security guard to a fraction of an inch tall and wound up inside the lab's ant farm without his communications helmet. After a harrowing adventure, he managed to escape the ant farm and return to his normal height, but not before befriending and saving the life of the ant colony's queen. Suspecting that a recent accident in the facility was the work of either industrial espionage or agents working for a foreign government, Dr. Pym put his scientific knowledge to good use in tracking down and bringing the culprit to justice. Following that, he designed the identity of Ant-Man, calling on his insect friends for aid whenever he needs help. He is currently dating Janet van Dyne, who has become his partner in crime-fighting as the Wasp. Ant-Man and Wasp have become founding members of the Avengers.