The pitch a few years ago was that it was going to be split between a 1960's-era story with Hank Ant-Man and a modern one with Scott. I don't know if that's still the case but I think that would be pretty great; the world needs more period superhero movies. And the potential for a movie where we intersperse a young and old Hank would be cool too. Old Hank as a Hollis Mason-style mentor to Scott.
BTW, interesting bit of trivia on the wife-smackin' bit that people just can't let go of:
it wasn't written that way.
In that story (issue 213, I think), there is a scene in which Hank is supposed to have accidentally struck Jan while throwing his hands up in despair and frustration—making a sort of “get away from me” gesture while not looking at her. Bob Hall, who had been taught by John Buscema to always go for the most extreme action, turned that into a right cross! There was no time to have it redrawn, which, to this day has caused the tragic story of Hank Pym to be known as the “wife-beater” story.
Now, that's Shooter, so in and of itself it'd be a grain-of-salt story, but artist Bob Hall has
corroborated it:
I wasn’t really a pro at that point. I was a fan with some skill. I could not have drawn the panel the way JIm wanted it. In fact, I remember re-drawing that particular panel several times — not for JIm but because I didn’t like the results. The final panel was the point where I gave up and thought — I know how to do Marvel action — I’ll make it Marvel action cause nothing else I’ve done seems right either.
Anyway, it's like Tony's alcoholism -- I hate it and wish it would go away but unfortunately it's become the first thing people think of when they think of the character.
(Peter once hit MJ too, but everybody ignores that. I think that's partly because we're all pretending the Clone Saga never happened -- indeed that whole issue makes no sense after the "Peter was the real Peter all along" retcon, as it revolved around him having been preprogrammed by the Jackal when he was cloned -- and partly because Peter's just flat-out a more popular character than Hank and fans are more ready to let one bad story slide in his case.)
Now, Ultimate Hank going after Jan was a legitimately creepy and affecting sequence, and probably the highlight of the entire Ultimates run. I have no complaints about that, because you can do shit like that in the Ult U. But I sure wish the writers and fans could put it behind them in the Regular U.