《复仇者联盟》系列电影的导演乔斯・韦登（Joss Whedon）曾经表示“蚁人汉克・皮姆没能加入《复仇者联盟》电影是我最遗憾的事”（Of all the heat I’ve ever taken, not having Hank Pym [in the Avengers] was one of the bigger things）。然而话说回来，已通过电影引入漫威大世界的蚁人在《复仇者联盟2: 奥创时代》里仍然在替补席上坐着板凳，而《复仇者联盟2》的导演还是韦登。

最近韦登在接受《帝国》杂志的采访时谈到了这个问题，他对将汉克・皮姆和斯科特・朗这两代蚁人排除出复仇者电影名单进行了解释。

“Of all the heat I’ve ever taken, not having Hank Pym was one of the bigger things. But the fact of the matter was, Edgar had him first and by virtue of what Edgar was doing, there was no way for me to use him in this. I also thought it was a bridge too far. Ultron needs to be the brainchild of the Avengers, and in the world of the Avengers and the MCU, Tony Stark is that guy. Banner has elements of that guy – we don’t really think of him as being as irresponsible as Tony Stark, but the motherfucker tested gamma radiation on himself, with really terrible, way-worse-than-Tony-Stark results.

It didn’t make sense to introduce a third scientist, a third sciencetician, to do that. It was hard for me, because I grew up on the comics, to dump that, but at the end of the day, it’s a more interesting relationship between Tony and Ultron if Tony was once like, ‘You know what would be a really great idea?’ They’re doing what they always do – which is jump in headfirst, and then go, ‘Sorry, world!’ But you have to make it their responsibility without just making it their fault.”

（蚁人汉克・皮姆没能加入《复仇者联盟》电影是我最遗憾的事，然而埃德加『注： 埃德加·赖特，蚁人编剧』先得到了蚁人这个角色，依照他编写的剧情我无法安排蚁人加入我的故事，而且我认为蚁人和复仇者的联系有些远，既然把奥创当成复仇者智慧的结晶，托尼・斯塔克已经是合适的角色了。本来布鲁斯・班纳也可以『注：言外之意是他也可能是创造蚁人的人』，而且他比托尼更稳重，但这家伙在自己身上实验放射线，结果可比托尼严重多了『注：即绿巨人』。

我不希望在复仇者中引入第三个科学家，要做到这点对我来说也很难，因为我从小就是个漫画粉丝『注：蚁人是奥创的原作者，这里指韦登对改动设定心塞』，然而后来我再看看故事，感觉让托尼・斯塔克成为奥创的制造者是个很有趣的主意。复仇者们将做他们曾做过的事，先是跌落深渊，对别人说“抱歉啊世界”，然后再担负责任，处理好自己制造的麻烦。）

《蚁人》和《复仇者联盟2:奥创时代》两部电影都将在2015年上映，敬请期待。