Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania isn’t just a clever title that has the words "Ant" and "Man" in it twice, the next chapter of the Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) series about shrinking and growing is set to kick off the official Phase 5 shift in the ongoing Marvel Universe. Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror is set to be the next great Big Bad of the MCU.
Marvel dropped a featurette about the upcoming kickoff flick and capper to the ongoing Peyton Reed trilogy on their YouTube page where they delve into what fans can expect from the epic entry about the pint-sized hero.
Kevin Feige (looking far less robotic than his She-Hulk counterpart) begins the featurette, as it shows off new shots of the Quantum Realm, saying how Marvel felt that since Scott Lang was so often underestimated and that he was the key to saving the universe in Avengers: Endgame, that he’d be the perfect character to have his big screen adventure really take the Marvel universe into its next major phase. Paul Rudd, handsome and ageless as ever, speaks to how he’s been in the role now for nearly a decade and that he’s become very protective of the character—he also says that working in the part is still a dream, getting to sit across the room from actors like Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer every day.
The featurette then moves onto more of what the story is about with an accident in Pym’s home lab sending Scott and Cassie, now taking more of an active role than that of child-damsel or divorced-guy pawn, to the Quantum Realm. Pfeiffer explains that her Janet van Dyne, the previous generation’s Wasp until her daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) took over the role, acts as their guide as the character with the most experience in the Quantum Realm since she was trapped there for years and learned about Kang during her time away. Lilly herself describes how if there was such as thing as a maniac in the Quantum Realm, Kang is it.
The featurette’s third act then focuses on Kang, showing how the time traveler from the far future that briefly cameoed at the end of the Disney+ series, Loki, and looking every inch his comic book counterpart, is going to come bursting onto the scene in a big way. As Majors himself says, “He cannot be contained.” The effects look spectacular and the cast encourages audiences to go and see it in the theater (as if they won’t). Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is set to be the biggest entry in the Scott Lang story yet.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits theaters February 17, 2023.
Source: Marvel/YouTube