Last month it was revealed that Ant-Man helmer Peyton Reed is in talks with Marvel about returning for 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, and speaking to MTV the director has confirmed that negotiations are “looking pretty good”, as well as expressing his excitement about the sequel.
“I think one of the appealing things about coming back for a sequel is to be able to build it from the ground up this time. Also, [there’s] stuff that we clearly set up in the first movie that we want to pay off and have fun with in the second movie. Since we know the origins, we can go in some weird, unique and different territory.”
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Reed also spoke about Wasp’s shared billing in the title, adding that: “”It just happened to be organic for the characters of Ant-Man and Wasp. It worked. Her last line in the movie — ‘It’s about damn time’ — [is] very much about her specific character and arc in that movie, but it is absolutely about a larger thing. It’s about damn time: We’re going to have a fully realized, very very complicated hero in the next movie who happens to be a woman.”
Ant-Man and the Wasp will see Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly returning as Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne. The film is set for release on July 6th, 2018.
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Originally published November 12, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
