Macro Heroics T Russell Carpenter, ASC and a team of collaborators stage big action in small spaces for the superhero movie Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed. By Noah Kadner *|* 44 August 2015 he Marvel Cinematic Universe is constantly expanding with the addition of multiple interlocking movies per year. Its most recent growth spurt marked the entry of the decidedly diminutive hero of Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed and shot by Russell Carpenter, ASC. Based on the adventures of the size-shifting comic-book hero of the same name, Ant-Man tells the origin story of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), a low-level San Francisco Bay Area thief who gets taken under the proverbial wings of entomologist-physicist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and his daughter, Hope Van American Cinematographer