VisualFiction wrote:
Demand Warner rush The Atom into production for release the same month as Ant-Man and The Incredible Shrinking Man (already a head-to-head battle on the head of a pin). ISM will be smaller than either of the Big Two, embarrassing them both (not that such is my goal, but the irony were writ large). Casting Ray Palmer in a hurry shouldn't be any problem, it's not as though it's a big role.


  
Yeah, I think this is one of the reasons Marvel fast tracked Ant-Man...so that DC will have trouble with The Atom. 

I'm not so familiar with Ant-Man...how microscopic can he go? Small enough to encounter microbe civilizations tiny or just insect size tiny?