As most of you know, opening this weekend is director Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man. The film stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, a master thief who puts his skills to use when he helps Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) pull off a heist that will protect the secret Ant-Man suit and save the world in the process. The film also stars Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Pena, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, and Bobby Cannavale. Ant-Man opens in theaters on July 17th. For more on Ant-Man, here’s all our previous coverage which includes clips, trailers, images, and more.

At the Los Angeles press day I landed an exclusive video interview with director Peyton Reed. He talked about his first cut, deleted scenes, Easter eggs, how Ant-Man ties into the MCU, the post-credits scenes, the one sequence that was trickiest to get right in the editing room, future projects, and a lot more.

Here’s what he had to say followed by the time index.

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Peyton Reed Time Index:

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  :20 - How much time has he spent on the Marvel lot in the last year?
• :50 - What does he want people to know about the movie? Says Ant-Man is a very different movie for Marvel, particularly in contrast to Age of Ultron.
• 1:49 - How long was the first cut compared to what ended up in theaters?
• 2:28 - How tied up is Ant-Man into the MCU?
• 3:12 - How many deleted scenes are there?
• 3:55 - Will the deleted scenes be on the Blu-ray? Says he’s picking the cream of the crop to be included.
• 4:45 - Will there be another big box set for Phase II and have they asked for additional materials for Ant-Man?
• 5:28 - Says he put the finishing touches on the day of the first press screening.
• 5:38 - What was the one sequence that was trickiest to get right in the editing room? Says the first time Scott uses the scene had a lot of pressure.
• 6:58 - Talks about the two post-credits sequences and when he knew those would be the scenes.
• 8:06 - Talk about the unusual way that he came on board the project, and the biggest challenge of conducting this “moving train”.
• 10:08 - Are there hidden Easter eggs that people should be looking out for?
• 11:30 - What’s coming up next? Is he having conversations with Marvel about more films?