Rudd, who had been heavily involved with the story process on the first two Ant-Man films (and included in the screenwriting credits for both) was said to be introducing one of Marvel’s most shithouse-crazy baddies, M.O.D.O.K. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing).
M.O.D.O.K. originally started appearing in Marvel comics back in 1967: George Tarleton, a technician for nefarious arms company A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics, since we’re being all acronymical today) becomes a victim of the organization’s experimental mutagenic technology, altering his body into a swollen, hyper-cephalic/super-intelligent head that’s too big for his body to support, requiring a (very villainous) floating chair to move about.
He eventually rebels against his masters and gains control over the entire A.I.M. org, becoming mostly an arch-nemesis for Captain America (in the comics).
The M.O.D.O.K. character is also slated to get his own adult-oriented animated comedy web-series on Hulu, created by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt.
It’s not yet known what direction Loveness will take with the story, it seems that his bizarro humor/weird-science cred from Rick and Morty would be a perfect fit for a character/concept like M.O.D.O.K.
Director Peyton Reed will be returning for his third Ant-Man outing, and (of course) no shoot-date has been announced yet amid the current pandemic.
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