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Paul Rudd is eagerly looking forward to working on 'Ant-Man'.
The 45-year-old actor is busy getting himself in shape for the lead role in the forthcoming blockbuster and revealed that he "loves" the direction the revamped script has taken, saying he's been working "every day for six weeks" with writer Adam Mackay.
Rudd said: "We're a few weeks away [from filming] and while we're still kind of polishing some things, I feel really good and excited about where we're at.
"It's a totally unique and interesting world that we're exploring."
Starring alongside Rudd in the eagerly-awaited flick will be Hollywood icon Michael Douglas, who he's enjoyed getting to know.
He added to Collider: "I've had dinner with him a couple of times and I've talked to him on the phone. He's the most approachable, easygoing, cool dude.
"And he is in that handful of people on the planet that I go, 'Oh my god, I cannot believe that I'm talking to Michael Douglas'. It's unbelievable."

Rita Ora is "incredibly sexy", according to E.L. James.
The 'I Will Never Let You Down' hitmaker is set to make her acting debut in the upcoming film adaptation of James' erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and is said to have been spending a lot of time with the author while shooting the film in Canada.
The 51-year-old writer told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "She [Rita] is incredibly sexy and has this amazing charisma about her.
"When we were filming in Toronto we had a few nights out.
"We didn't drink each other under the table but we did match each other.
"Neither of us had to be put in a taxi home but some other people did."
James - who has also penned follow-up books 'Fifty Shades Freed' and 'Fifty Shades Darker' - hopes Ora will go on to have a successful acting career in addition to her music following her role in the film.
She added: "I think she'll be in a lot more movies."
Male model Jamie Dornan stars as wealthy billionaire Christian Grey alongside Dakota Johnson as his student lover Anastasia Steele in the highly anticipated big-screen remake, while Ora takes on the role of Grey's sister Mia.
'Fifty Shades of Grey' is scheduled for release on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2015.

Dave Bautista is worried a 'Guardians of the Galaxy' sequel won't live up to the first film.
The professional wrestler stars as Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Comics movie directed by James Gunn, which is set for worldwide release later this week, and he's worried that a sequel may not be as good.
He explained: "I think this one's going to be hard to top but if anyone can do it James can, just because he's so creative and imaginative but I really think ... I'd like to see them tell you more detailed stories of the character's pasts because they're very interesting and I think it it's kind of going to make people love them even more and get more attached to them."
Bautista's co-star Chris Pratt - who stars as Peter Quill aka Star Lord in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' - agreed and suggested there could be more than one sequel in the works.
Quizzed on what he'd like to see in a sequel, he said: "I would like to explore some of the questions that are left unanswered in the first movie. You could go deeper into the origin stories of Rocket or Drax or Gamora.
"I think it's going to be hard to pick which story you tell next but, God, there are so many you could go with."

'The Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson snuck into Comic-Con dressed in a disguise.
The 52-year-old director revealed that he managed to explore Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday (26.07.14) without being hassled for selfies by dressing up as the Evil Jester.
Speaking to Deadline Jackson explained: "I got myself a secret identity. I became the Evil Jester.
"My Evil Jester costume was so successful in disguising my true identity that quite a few people actually asked me to pose with them. And I did."
Peter admitted that a costume was necessary because if he arrived without it, he would be mobbed by fans.
He reflected: "There's a certain reality to me going out now. I'd get six paces, no further, and it would be selfies, and nothing else. In the old days, people asked you to sign something, and half would be too nervous to ask. Now, there's an aggression to it, like they want you as a trophy on their web page. It's a social coup to nail you on their cell phone. It changed everything. I get six paces and then can't walk another."
Jackson also admitted that although he has been at the helm of all six film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit', he's pessimistic about bringing Tolkien's posthumously published novel 'The Silmarillion' to the big screen.
He said: "The Tolkien estate has hung onto those film rights, and shown no desire for anyone to do it. That's the current situation. There's no amount of money that Warner Bros could pay the estate for any film rights."

Legendary Entertainment's Thomas Tull has confirmed they are to make a film based on King Kong's home, Skull Island.
The company's CEO confirmed the news at Comic Con this weekend when he claimed Legendary and Universal had "been tinkering around with one thing", before unveiling a short teaser trailer for the film.
Elaborating on the upcoming project, the film studio explained: "Previous works have touched on the island, but staying and exploring this mysterious and dangerous place offers Legendary the opportunity to take audiences deeper inside this rich world with a style and scope that parallels other Legendary productions."
The teaser for the new film - which is to be released in November 2016 - features a first-person shot that takes the viewer over stormy seas to an island, where King Kong comes into vision and can be seen roaring and beating his chest.
It has been rumoured that 'Godzilla' director Gareth Edwards has been handed the reigns on the new flick.
The last time King Kong appeared on the silver screen was in 2005, when acclaimed director Peter Jackson was given control of the project.
The film starred Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody and Andy Serkis, and won three Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects.
Details of the new project are thin on the ground, but fans of the iconic character - who was first depicted in a movie in 1933 - will already be looking forward to his eagerly-awaited return.

Quentin Tarantino has confirmed he will continue to work on 'The Hateful Eight'.
The Academy-Award winning director was forced to put the Western on hold after chunks of the script was leaked online in January, but he has now decided to go ahead with the movie, according to Deadline.com.
The 51-year-old star was furious after he found out someone had published the story on the web and was determined to find out who was behind the betrayal as he'd only lent the scrip to a small group of actors.
He said at the time: "I'm very, very depressed, I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today."
Fans were hoping to see another Western from Tarantino following the success of 'Django Unchained' last year, but were left gutted when he said he would publish the story as a book and pursue other projects.
He said: "I don't know how these f**king agents work, but I'm not making this next. I'm going to publish it, and that's it for now. I give it out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."
However, he announced in April he was working on a new draft of the script and hoped to go ahead with the project at some point in the future.
It is now believed the movie could go into production as early as November.

Dolly Parton would perform her own songs in a movie of her life.
The 'Jolene' hitmaker doesn't want an actress to have the "pressure" of having to match her famous vocals in a biopic, so would allow them to lip-sync to tracks she has already recorded for them.
Discussing the movie of her life, she told the Guardian newspaper: "We've actually got to finish it all, but there are a lot of great people out there. I would probably sing my own songs so it would just need to be the perfect actress, they wouldn't have to have the pressure of having to sing it also. But for the stage, that would be a different thing altogether."
Dolly is still keen for Scarlett Johansson to portray her on the big screen, but when it comes to a stage musical, she thinks 'Glee' and 'The West Wing' star Kristin Chenoweth would be perfect as she could handle the singing aspects.
She added: "I think [whoever plays me] would have to have the right personality. I think they would have to have some big boobs.
"I think somebody like Scarlett Johansson, somebody like that as an actress for the film, whereas a Kristin Chenoweth would be great for stage, because she's little and has that great voice.
"At one time, back when I had started working on this film several years ago, I had thought about Scarlett Johansson. They're all bigger than me, of course, but that doesn't matter."

Ian McShane believes The Rock was the perfect choice to play Hercules.
Former wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson portrays Hercules in Brett Ratner's big-screen adaptation of the Radical Studios graphic novel, and McShane - who plays part seer, part warrior Amphiaraus - thinks no one else could have done the role justice.
He told Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2: "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson plays Hercules. Well who else are you going to get to play Hercules? It has to be Mr Muscles."
Although McShane, 71, enjoyed working on the movie, he admitted it was "a long slog".
He explained: "They did most of the special effects afterwards but it was 19 weeks, there were six cameras on each of us. It was a long slog this one.
"A lot of it was fun, I like Brett Ratner, he's crazy but it was a long shoot."
The movie - which portrays Hercules not as the son of Greek god Zeus but rather as a mortal mercenary - also stars Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt, Rebecca Ferguson and supermodel Irina Shayk, who makes her acting debut as Hercules' love interest.