Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
The Lang/van Dyne family embarks on an exciting new adventure in the subatomic realm in the first official trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. As we’ve reported previously, next month’s release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will mark the end of Phase Four of what’s officially being called The Multiverse Saga (encompassing Phases Four, Five, and Six). Quantumania will kick off Phase Five.
We saw some preview footage at both San Diego Comic-Con and D23, featuring a villainous version of Kang (Jonathan Majors), a time-traveling adversary of the multiverse first introduced as He Who Remains during the finale of the first season of Loki. (Majors has said that the Kang in the film is not the same as He Who Remains.) That footage also showed Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) confronting Kang, who apparently was holding Scott’s now-teenage daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) captive. Kang promised to release Cassie if Scott helped him retrieve something that has been stolen from him.
Otherwise, we know little about the film, except that the four main characters are returning. So is Randall Park as FBI agent Jimmy Woo, Scott’s former parole officer, as well as Gregg Turkington as Scott’s former Baskin-Robbins boss, Dale. Per the official premise:
Superhero partners Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp. Together with Hope’s parents Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures, and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.
There is going to be a cameo appearance by MODOK, and Bill Murray has been cast in an as-yet-undisclosed villainous role. We get the briefest glimpse of his character in the new trailer, which is set to the dulcet tones of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” It opens with a montage of Scott cheerfully going about his day, basking in the collective admiration from locals for his superhero work with the Avengers—even if some people mistake him for Spider-Man. It happens.
Things seem pretty peachy on the home front, too, with Cassie working on a new invention that she proudly shows off to the Lang/Van Dyne clan: “It’s like a satellite for deep space, but quantum.” Janet—who was lost in the quantum realm for years until her re-emergence in Ant-Man and the Wasp—immediately looks concerned. “You’re sending a signal down to the quantum realm? Turn it off. Now.”
But it’s too late. The whole family gets sucked into the quantum realm, which looks very different from its previous incarnations in the MCU. It seems to be a technologically advanced futuristic city of sorts. Clearly, Janet has been keeping a big secret about her time there, describing the realm as “a secret universe beneath ours.” Enter Kang, who promises Scott that he can get the family home—if Scott helps Kang in return. We’re guessing that’s a trade-off that comes with some pretty significant repercussions.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits theaters on February 17, 2023.
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