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Ant-Man and the Wasp
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeyton Reed
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDante Spinotti
Edited by
Music byChristophe Beck
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • June 25, 2018 (2018-06-25) (El Capitan Theatre)
  • July 6, 2018 (2018-07-06) (United States)
Running time
118 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$130 million[3]
Box office$3.1 million[3]

Ant-Man and the Wasp is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne / Wasp. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to 2015's Ant-Man, and the twentieth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Peyton Reed, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, as well as Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari. It stars Rudd as Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Van Dyne, alongside Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip "T.I." Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, the titular pair work with Hank Pym to retrieve Janet van Dyne from the quantum realm.

Talks for a sequel to Ant-Man began shortly after that film was released. Ant-Man and the Wasp was officially announced in October 2015, with Rudd and Lilly returning to reprise their roles. A month later, Reed was officially returning from Ant-Man to direct; he was excited to develop the film from the beginning after joining the first film later in the process, and also to show the introduction of Hope van Dyne as the Wasp in this film, insisting that she and Lang are equals. Filming took place from August to November 2017, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, as well as Metro Atlanta, San Francisco, Savannah, Georgia, and Hawaii.

Ant-Man and the Wasp had its world premiere in Hollywood on June 25, 2018, and is scheduled to be released on July 6, 2018 in the United States in IMAX and 3D. The film was generally considered by critics to be fun but disposable, relying on charm, humor, and Rudd's performance in particular to overcome its story and number of subplots.

Plot

In 1987, Janet van Dyne / Wasp shrinks between the molecules of a Soviet nuclear missile, disabling it but entering the microscopic quantum realm. Hank Pym / Ant-Man raises their daughter Hope believing that Janet is dead. Years later, former criminal Scott Lang takes up the mantle of Ant-Man and discovers a way to both enter and return from the quantum realm. Pym and Hope begin work on repeating this feat, believing they may find Janet alive. Lang and Hope also start a romantic relationship and begin training to fight together as Ant-Man and the Wasp, until Lang secretly helps Captain America during a skirmish between the Avengers in violation of the Sokovia Accords. Lang is placed under house arrest, while Pym and Hope go into hiding and cut ties with Lang.[N 1]

Two years later, Pym and Hope briefly manage to open a tunnel to the quantum realm. Lang receives an apparent message from Janet, who he is quantumly entangled with. Despite having only days left of house arrest, Lang decides to call Pym. Hope kidnaps Lang, leaving a decoy so as not to arouse suspicion from FBI agent Jimmy Woo. Seeing the message as confirmation that Janet is alive, Pym and Hope work to create a stable tunnel so they can take a vehicle to the quantum realm and retrieve Janet.

Hope arranges to buy a part needed for the tunnel from black market dealer Sonny Burch, but Burch has realized the potential profit that can be earned from Pym and Hope's research and double-crosses them. Hope fights Burch and his men off, until she is attacked by a quantumly unstable masked woman. Lang tries to help fight off this "ghost", but she escapes with Pym's portable lab.

Pym reluctantly visits his estranged former partner Bill Foster who helps them locate the lab. The ghost restrains Lang, Hope, and Pym when they arrive, and reveals herself to be Ava Starr. Her father Elihas, another former partner of Pym's, accidentally killed himself and his wife during a quantum experiment that caused Ava's unstable state. Foster reveals that he has been helping Ava, who they plan to cure using Janet's quantum energy. Believing that this will kill Janet, Pym refuses to help them and the trio manage to escape.

Opening a stable version of the tunnel this time, Pym and Hope are able to contact Janet who gives them a precise location to find her, but warns that they only have two hours before the unstable nature of the realm separates them for centuries. Burch learns their location from Lang's business partners Luis, Dave, and Kurt, and informs a contact at the FBI. Luis warns Lang, who rushes home before Woo can see him breaking his house arrest. This leaves Pym and Hope to be arrested, and for their lab to be taken by Burch.

Lang is soon able to help Pym and Hope escape custody, and they steal the lab back from Burch. Lang and Hope distract Ava while Pym enters the quantum realm to retrieve Janet, but the pair end up fighting Burch and his men which allows Ava to begin taking Janet's energy. Luis, Dave, and Kurt help apprehend Burch, so Lang and Hope can stop Ava. Pym and Janet arrive safely from the quantum realm, and Janet voluntarily gifts some of her energy to Ava to temporarily stabilize her.

Lang returns home once again, in time for a now suspicious Woo to release him at the end of his house arrest. Ava and Foster go into hiding. Pym and Janet settle their house near the sea while Lang, Hope and Cassie are watching a movie through a laptop inside their minisize car.

In a mid-credits scene, Pym, Lang, Hope, and Janet plan to harvest quantum energy to continue helping Ava. While Lang is doing this in the quantum realm, Pym, Hope, and Janet all disintegrate into dust, [N 2] trapping Lang in the quantum realm. In a post-credits scene, showing Lang's house after the snap events with Cassie's giant ant pet plays on a drum set.

Cast

Additionally Stan Lee, co-creator of the titular heroes, has an uncredited cameo in the film as a man whose car gets shrunk by accident,[14] and Michael Cerveris appears as Ava's father Elihas Starr while Riann Steele plays his wife Catherine.[5] Tim Heidecker cameos as Whale Boat Captain Daniel Gooobler.[15]

Production

Development

It's such a no-brainer that there needs to be female heroes ... In the '60s comics, the Janet van Dyne Wasp was clearly written by all men and was pretty one-dimensional. She's gotten much more dimensionalized since then. That's one of those things that I think is going to be really exciting and fresh about this movie.

 —Director Peyton Reed on the Wasp's inclusion in the film[16]

In June 2015, Ant-Man director Peyton Reed expressed interest in returning for a sequel or prequel to that film, saying that he had "really fallen in love with these characters" and felt "there's a lot of story to tell with Hank Pym".[17] A month later, Pym actor Michael Douglas said he was not signed for any additional films, but "would look forward to more if it comes my way",[18] and expressed the desire to have his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones cast as Janet van Dyne for a potential follow-up.[19] Evangeline Lilly—who played the daughter of Pym and Van Dyne, Hope van Dyne—wanted to see Michelle Pfeiffer in the role.[20] Producer Kevin Feige revealed that the studio had a "supercool idea" for the next Ant-Man film, and "if audiences want it, we'll find a place to do it."[21] Reed also mentioned that there had been talks of doing a standalone adventure with Hank Pym as Ant-Man, possibly including the original opening to Ant-Man featuring Jordi Mollà which was cut from the final film. Eric Eisenberg of Cinema Blend opined that a standalone adventure with Pym and the cut sequence would be a good candidate to revive the Marvel One-Shots short film series.[22] By the end of July, David Dastmalchian expressed interest in returning for a sequel as Kurt.[23]

In October 2015, Marvel Studios confirmed the sequel, titled Ant-Man and the Wasp, with a scheduled release date of July 6, 2018.[24] Reed was in negotiations to direct the sequel by the end of the month,[25] and confirmed his return in November along with the confirmation of Paul Rudd and Lilly returning as Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne / Wasp, respectively.[26] One of the things that appealed to Reed about returning was being able to build the film "from the ground up" after he joined the first film late in the process when the original writer and director Edgar Wright departed. He also wanted to explore elements that he set up in the first film.[27] Reed would first begin work on an outline for the sequel,[28] which he thought could be "weird, unique and different" now that the characters' origins had been established.[27] On including the Wasp in the film's title (the first MCU film to have a female character in the title), Reed called it "organic" for both characters, and noted the Wasp's final line in Ant-Man—'It's about damn time'—as "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."[27] Reed would also push to ensure the Wasp received equal publicity and merchandise for the film, and even though Janet van Dyne had yet to be cast, he had a desire to explore her backstory in the film and "definite ideas" of who should portray her.[16] That month, Adam McKay, one of the writers of Ant-Man, expressed interest in returning to write the film,[29] and Douglas confirmed that he was in talks to return as well.[26]

Reed stated in early December that the film may "call back" to the heist film genre and tone of Ant-Man, but that Ant-Man and the Wasp would "have an entirely different genre template". He hoped to incorporate additional flashback sequences in the film, as well as explore Pym's various identities from the comics and his psychology. Reed also said he was "excited" about exploring and discovering the film version of the Ant-Man and Wasp relationship that is "a romantic partnership and a heroic partnership" in the comics, a "different dynamic than we've seen in the rest of the [MCU], an actual partnership." Additionally, Reed mentioned that pre-production would "probably" start in October 2016, with filming scheduled for early 2017.[30] Production writers for the first film, Gabriel Ferrari and Andrew Barrer, signed on to write the script along with Rudd,[31] with writing starting "in earnest" in January 2016.[30] The next month, McKay confirmed that he would be involved with the film in some capacity.[32] By April, the four writers and Reed had been "holed up in a room ... brainstorming the story", with Reed promising that it would have "stuff in it that you've never ever seen in a movie before".[33] Feige added that they wanted to "stay true to what made [Ant-Man] so unique and different", and teased the potential of seeing the Giant-Man version of Lang that was introduced in Captain America: Civil War.[34]

In June 2016, Reed said that for inspiration from the comics he had been looking at "early Avengers stuff and all the way up to the Nick Spencer stuff now", and was focusing on iconic images that could be replicated in the film over story beats from the comics. He added that there was "definitely a chance" for Michael Peña, Tip "T.I." Harris, and Dastmalchian to reprise their respective roles as Luis, Dave, and Kurt from the first film.[35] At San Diego Comic-Con 2016, Feige stated that Reed and Rudd were still working on the script,[36] and that filming was now expected to begin in June 2017.[36][37] Rudd elaborated that they had "turned in a treatment, but it's so preliminary. We'll see. We have an idea of what it might look like, but it could change a lot from where we're at now."[38] The next month, Peña was confirmed to be returning as Luis,[4] while filming was revealed to be taking place in Atlanta, Georgia.[39] In early October, an initial script had been completed for the film that was awaiting approval from Marvel.[40]

Pre-production

At the start of November 2016, Reed said that the film's production would be transitioning from "the writing phase" to "official prep" that month, beginning with visual development. Reed reiterated his excitement for introducing the Wasp and "really designing her look, the way she moves, the power set, and figuring out, sort of, who Hope van Dyne is as a hero". He also talked about sharing characters with other MCU films, stating his disappointment in the Giant-Man introduction happening in Civil War, rather than an Ant-Man film. Reed added that he spends "a lot of time" talking with the other writers and directors of MCU films, and that he and the writers on this film wished to maintain "our little Ant-Man corner of the universe. Because it's a whole different vibe tonally".[41]

In February 2017, Douglas confirmed that he would reprise his role as Hank Pym in the film.[42] During the Hollywood premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in April, Dastmalchian confirmed his return as Kurt,[11] and a month later, Harris confirmed his return as Dave as well.[10] Through that May, Marvel was meeting with several actresses for a "key role" in the sequel, with Hannah John-Kamen cast in the part at the beginning of June.[43] The following month, Randall Park joined the cast as Jimmy Woo,[13] and Walton Goggins was cast in an undisclosed role.[44] At San Diego Comic-Con 2017, Park's casting was confirmed; John-Kamen and Goggins roles were revealed to be Ghost and Sonny Burch, respectively; and the casting of Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne and Laurence Fishburne as Bill Foster was announced.[12] Judy Greer was confirmed to be reprising her role as Maggie from the previous film the following week.[9]

The Russo brothers, directors of Avengers: Infinity War and its untitled sequel which were filming while Ant-Man and the Wasp was preparing to film, were in constant discussion with Reed in order to ensure story elements would line up between the films. Joe Russo added that Ant-Man and the Wasp would have "some [plot] elements that stitch in" closely with Avengers: Infinity War, more so than some of the other films leading up to the Avengers films.[45] Reed was inspired by the films After Hours and Midnight Run for the look and feel of Ant-Man and the Wasp. While the first film was more of a heist film, Reed described this as part action film, part romantic comedy, and wanted this one "to be a little more of like an Elmore Leonard vibe where we have villains, but we also have antagonists, and we have these roadblocks to our heroes getting to where they need to be, and getting what they need for this mission.” Regarding the opportunity for character development, Reed used the actions of Lang in Civil War to fuel potential tension between him, Pym, and Van Dyne since Pym is "very clear in the first movie about how he feels about Stark and how he feels about The Avengers and being very protective of this technology that he has."[46]

Filming

Principal photography began on August 1, 2017,[8] at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia,[39][47] under the working title Cherry Blue;[48] Dante Spinotti served as director of photography.[8] At the start of filming, Marvel revealed that Bobby Cannavale and Abby Ryder Fortson would also be reprising their roles from the first film, respectively as Paxton and Cassie. They also revealed the writing team of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers had contributed to the screenplay.[8]

Filming also took place in Metro Atlanta, with filming locations including the Atlanta International School, the Midtown and Buckhead districts of Atlanta and the Samuel M. Inman Middle School in the city's Virginia-Highland neighborhood, as well as Emory University and the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.[49] Additional filming took place in San Francisco in September 2017,[50] in Savannah, Georgia in late October,[51] and in Hawaii.[52] Production wrapped on November 19, 2017.[53]

Post-production

In late November, Lilly said that the characters would be trying to enter the Quantum Realm in the film, and their potential success would "open a whole entire new multi-verse to enter into and play around in" for the MCU.[54] The film features two post-credits scenes.[55] Visual effects for the film were created by Method Studios.[56]

Music

In June 2017, Reed confirmed that Christophe Beck, who composed the score for Ant-Man, would return for Ant-Man and the Wasp.[57]

Release

Ant-Man and the Wasp had its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on June 25, 2018,[58] and will be released in the United States on July 6, 2018,[24] in IMAX and 3D.[59][60] The film was scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2018, but was rescheduled in November 2017 to August 3, 2018,[61] in order to avoid competition with the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Charles Gant of The Guardian and Screen International noted, "The worry for film distributors is that audiences will be caught up in the tournament. So it’s easier to play safe and not date your film at this time, especially during the group stage, when all the qualifying nations are competing." Tom Butler of Yahoo! Movies UK added that, unlike the first film, which was one of the lowest-grossing MCU films in the UK, anticipation levels for the film "are at an all-time high following the events of Infinity War" and "UK audiences will probably have found out what happens in the film well before it opens in UK cinemas, and this could have a negative impact on its box office potential."[62] This in turn led fans in the country to start a Change.org petition to have Disney move the release date up several weeks, similarly to how Avengers: Infinity War's United States release was moved up a week the previous May.[63]

Marketing

Concept art and "pre-CGI video" was shown at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con.[64] In January 2018, Hyundai Motor America announced that the 2019 Hyundai Veloster would play a significant role in the film, with other Hyundai vehicles scheduled to make an appearance.[65] The first trailer for the film was released on January 30, 2018 on Good Morning America,[66] and used the guitar riff from Adam and the Ants' "Ants Invasion".[67] David Betancourt of The Washington Post called the release, the day after Black Panther's premiere was widely praised on social media, a "smart move"; with Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War also releasing in 2018, "it can be easy [to] forget that hey, there is an Ant-Man sequel coming this year... So Marvel Studios giving us a quick reminder with this trailer release is logical".[68] Tracy Brown, writing for the Los Angeles Times, praised how the trailer prominently featured Lilly's Van Dyne "[showing] off how she was always meant to be a superhero".[69] A second trailer was released on May 1, 2018. Graeme McMillan of The Hollywood Reporter felt the trailer made the film feel "very much like an intentional antidote for, or at least alternative to, the grimness of Infinity War's downbeat ending", calling it "a smart move" since it could be considered "a palate cleanser and proof that Marvel has more to offer... before audiences dive back into the core narrative with next year's Captain Marvel."[70] In June 2018, Feige presented several scenes from the film at CineEurope.[71]

Reception

Box office projection

In June 2018, a month before its release, official industry tracking had Ant-Man and the Wasp debuting to $69–80 million,[72][73] while BoxOffice Magazine projected a final domestic gross of $225 million.[74] By the week of its release, tracking had reached a high of $85 million, with Deadline Hollywood noting the film could overperform and debut to $100 million due to pre-sales being on-par with Spider-Man: Homecoming, which opened to $117 million the previous July. It is also expected to gross $50–70 million internationally in its opening weekend, for a global debut of $125–155 million.[75]

Critical response

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 87% based on 164 reviews, and an average rating of 7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A lighter, brighter superhero movie powered by the effortless charisma of Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, Ant-Man and The Wasp offers a much-needed MCU palette cleanser."[76] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a normalized score of 70 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[77]

Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and praised Rudd and Lilly, saying, "The secret of Ant-Man and the Wasp is that it works best when it doesn't try so hard, when it lets charm trump excess and proves that less can be more even in the Marvel universe."[78] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the lightweight tone as a treat and a breath following the "dramatically heavy conclusion" of Avengers: Infinity War. He also praised the cast, especially Rudd and Fortson, as well as the visual effects and inventive use of shrinking and growing in the action scenes.[79] Manohla Dargi at The New York Times felt the film's "fast, bright and breezy" tone was a vast improvement over the first film, praising Reed's direction. She also praised Rudd, felt Lilly found "her groove" in the film, and that the supporting cast all had "scene-steal[ing]" sequences.[80] Variety's Owen Gleiberman called the film "faster, funnier, and more cunningly confident than the original" and wrote, and felt Reed was able to give the film enough personality to overcome its two-hour runtime and effects-heavy climax. He did caution that this was "not quite the same thing as humanity. But it's enough to qualify as the miniature version."[81]

Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com said the film was "good enough", a "messy, but satisfying" sequel that he felt managed to juggle its many subplots while giving Rudd's Lang some decent character development.[82] At The Washington Post, Ann Hornaday called the film "instantly forgettable" and criticized its plot and which she felt included some "filler" subplots, but found the film to be "no less enjoyable" because of this and particularly praised Rudd along with the action and effects.[83] Writing for the Boston Globe, Ty Burr called the film the perfect "summer air-conditioning movie", finding it fun, funny, and superficial and an improvement over the first. He did think that the film had too many subplots, and not enough of Pfeiffer, but was positive of the lack of connections that the overall story had to the rest of the MCU and the focus on "pop trash" comedy.[84] Stephanie Zachareck, writing for Time, said it was "hard to actively dislike" the film, which had reasonably fun action and stand-out moments between Rudd and Fortson, but she was not as impressed with the larger, effects-heavy action sequences and felt the focus on Lilly as a better hero than Rudd was "just checking off boxes in the name of gender equality".[85]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Some of these events were also depicted in the films Ant-Man (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016).
  2. ^ Due to the ending of Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

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