Peyton Reed Talks Teaming Up Ant-Man and the Wasp

There’s still a few Marvel Studios films on the list to be released. Some of them sequels and others introducing characters at the big screen for the first time. Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and then there’s the sequel to Ant-Man… ANT-MAN AND THE WASP. Just recently, director Peyton Reed talked to Modern Myth Media about some things that can be expected.

“Well he’s a fugitive in most of the first ANT-MAN movie. He’s just a bigger fugitive now. I think that’s one of the fun things and challenges about the Marvel movies for us, for the directors and for the writers, is you do have to sort of consider what happened in the previous movies in terms of your jumping-off point for those characters. It’s something we talked a lot about early on and we definitely have stuff figured out, so there will be some big leaps forward.”

Reed also said that Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne aka Wasp will be a lead character, not a supporting character.

“It’s something we’re excited about. For me as a comic nerd, I always thought of ANT-MAN AND THE WASP as a team and that’s a lot of what the second movie is really about is how they work together, what their personal and professional relationships are like. To show her finally fully formed in this movie is really exciting. We really get to introduce this character into that universe. I mean we’ve introduced the character, but we haven’t seen her with her full power set and everything, so to me she’s not a supporting character in this movie. It’s every bit as much her movie as it is Scott Lang’s.”

What about Michael Peña’s Luis and the rest of gang returning?

“Oh there’s definitely a chance! I’d say there’s a fighting chance for that to happen.”

Ant-Man and the Wasp will feature the return of Paul Rudd as Scott Lang alongside Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne, with Michael Douglas also expected to reprise his role as Hank Pym.

Ant-Man and the Wasp hits theaters on July 6, 2018.