Fan Casting The Fly in Edgar Wright's Astonishing Ant-Man

A career criminal, Richard Deacon served as a gunman and enforcer for the Silvermane family of the Maggia in Chicago, Illinois, for many years. Left for dead after failing to protect a weapons sale from being hit by an independent third party, Deacon was discovered by the criminal scientist Dr. Karl Malus, who in the process of saving Deacon's life spliced housefly DNA into him. Horrified at the changes to his body wrought by Malus's treatment, Deacon found himself ostracized by his former Maggia comrades. In desperation, he hired himself out as a supervillain. Although he was captured and spent several years in prison, he had a moderately successful career, during which time he faced off against a number of Great Lakes based crimefighters, including the vigilante Nightfox and his team of Rust Belters several times late in their careers before they disbanded and retired. Recently, Deacon was paroled from prison, a parole secretly arranged by Silver Sable, his old employer's granddaughter. Sable questioned him about the weapons sale that had gone sour at the start of his career, then informed him there was a bounty on a pair of new adventurers: Ant-Man and Wasp (in reality, there was no bounty). Suiting up, the Fly fought the Diminutive Duo on several occasions. Though he was often forced to retreat, he did not permit himself to be recaptured.