Oh hello there! The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Scott Lang (a.k.a. Ant-Man, a.k.a. the never-aging Paul Rudd) has a memoir coming out! For real! It’s called Look Out For the Little Guy and you can even buy it.
“This once movie prop is now available for purchase wherever books are sold. How’s that for meta?” Paul Rudd/Scott Lang says in a video promoting this very much real book, that presumably has coherent words strung together into sentences for 256 pages.
The memoir that Rudd says “was almost certainly not written by me,” explores Ant-Man’s experience as an Avenger and, more importantly, as a dad. The book is most certainly a marketing ploy to promote the upcoming MCU film, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, as the fictional version of this memoir shows up there, and we’ll see it in action on-screen when the film premieres in theaters on Friday, February 17.
While marketing ploys can often be cringey, I have much respect for the dedication to this one, where some lucky ghostwriter got to pretend to be Scott Lang and write about his ex-convict, Avenger-ing ways. Given it shows up in Quantumania, it’s a good guess that the book will only cover Scott’s story up to the events of the third Ant-Man film. How will he recount that epic airport battle in Civil War? Fighting Thanos? Going back in time? Being pals with Captain America? We’ll have to wait and read it to find out.
Look Out For the Little Guy comes out on September 5, 2023. You can pre-order this totally real book here.
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