In the trailers for Ant - Man , Marvel dally up a funny gag : one of the combat featured a battle on a Thomas the Train Engine play set . Over on FilmSchoolRejects , film director Peyton Reed talks about how that scene made it into the film .
“ I conceive in Edgar [ Wright ] and Joe Cornish ’s original drafts it was a train solidification , ” Reed recalls . “ At some pointedness in the process that precede my intimacy it became Thomas . As I came on , they had not secure the rights to Thomas . We had to do this whole thing where we did this presentment for the people who own the rights to Thomas . give thanks God they correspond and found it queer , but there were definite precondition . For example , nobody could be tied to the lead and run over by Thomas . Thomas could n’t be doing anything that could be perceive by children as evil Thomas . Thomas had to stay indifferent in the battle , which was always our aim . Like anybody , they ’re protective of their brand . I did n’t have it away what we were going to do if we did n’t get the right to that . There are certain thing I was going to be lay waste to about if we could n’t have them . Thomas was one , because … you could do any kind of toy wagon train , but the personality of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muYbXyYxd5E
It ’s not too surprising that there were stipulations place on the use of Thomas in Ant - Man : numerous companies protect the image of their brands in gain to the intellectual property itself . It ’s bang-up to see that the rights holders in this case saw the humor in the scene and allowed it to take place .
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