Though there were many fanboys who couldn’t wait to see Edgar Wright’s version of Marvel’s Ant-Man, it unfortunately never came together. Marvel hired director Peyton Reed to come in at the last minute to save the day and he managed to deliver an entertaining and creative superhero movie. Marvel has taken a different approach to each of their films, with different corresponding genre templates. Captain America: The Winter Soldier being a political thriller and Guardians of the Galaxy being a space opera (and basically Star Wars) for example. Ant-Man was presented as a heist film and Reed assures us that they will be taking on a new genre template for the sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp. Reed confirmed as much during an interview with Comic Book Resources.
“I think there’s probably going to be some aspects that maybe call back to the tone of this movie, but for ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp,’ we have an entirely different template. We know what that template is, and we have an entirely different genre template for that movie. But it’s going to remain a surprise. But yes, that’s already been decided.”
There has been some talk floating around that Scott Lang could turn into Giant-Man during his appearance in Civil War next year. Reed agrees that Giant-Man and Goliath are key parts of the characters history in the comics and “to ignore that would be crazy.” Hank Pym in the film says the suit “took a toll” on him, and during this interview, Reed seems to possibly suggest that maybe Pym went giant-sized back in the day.
“Scott says to him, ‘Why don’t you just put on the suit?’ He’s like, ‘I can’t. I did it for a long time, and it took a toll on me.’ It’s like. Well, what does that mean, exactly? I think there are a lot of things that we’re going to explore in the next one that will explain a lot of that stuff.”
Ant-Man and the Wasp is scheduled to open on July 6, 2018.
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