Marvel Studios VP of Production & Development, Stephen Broussard, says that next month’s “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” is far more than just a third “Ant-Man” film on a bigger scale.
The project marks the first movie of the ‘fifth phase’ of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and sees Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang facing off against the main villain of the Multiverse Saga in the form of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors).
In the new film, Scott and his family are sucked into the Quantum Realm after an experiment gone awry – and so they must find a way out of this strange and dangerous world.
The project likely helps set up the events of both “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars”. In an official press release for the film, Broussard discussed the consequences that are set to become real in the wake of the show’s release and how vital this film is to the overall MCU:
“We talk about movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which you saw the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., and it felt like the entirety of the MCU turned on that. Captain America: Civil War was another film where you saw heroes divided and in camps and battle lines being drawn – it really felt like the future of the MCU was going to be defined by the action of that film. We really liked the idea of making this Ant-Man film as important and integral to the MCU going forward.”
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” hits theaters on February 17th.
Source: The Direct
