Just like Cap shared the screen with Bucky in his past two movies, Scott Lang will share the screen with Hope Van Dyne’s Wasp.
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]nt Man and the Wasp isn’t due to be released in theaters for another two years but that doesn’t mean Marvel and the previous Ant-Man writers haven’t gotten started on the sequel for Ant-Man. In a recent interview with Peyton Reed, Modern Myth Media was able to learn more details on what direction the next Ant-Man plans on going.
The events that took place in Captain America: Civil War is essentially where we will find Scott Lang. Peyton Reed naturally didn’t reveal anything too major in his interview, but you can be sure that Scott Lang probably will not be in San Fransico, California when Ant-Man and the Wasp hits theaters.
“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.”
Considering that the sequel to Ant-Man is titled Ant-Man and the Wasp it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Evangeline Lilly’s character Hope Van Dyne’s will share equal film time with Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang. Just like Cap and Bucky are a team, Scott Lang, and Hope Van Dyne will be a team.
“It’s something we’re excited about. For me as a comic nerd, I always thought of Ant-Man and 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.”
Ant-Man and the Wasp will be in theaters July 6th, 2018.
