Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

January 5, 2025 by Penny Gusner

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania promises to take audiences on a thrilling quantum adventure, exploring new dimensions and challenges for our beloved heroes. With its unique blend of action, humor, and mind-bending concepts, this movie is sure to captivate fans old and new. As we eagerly await the release of this next installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one thing is certain – Ant-Man and the Wasp will once again prove that size doesn’t matter when it comes to saving the day. Get ready to shrink down and expand your imagination with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania!

Ant-Man and the Wasp Details

Directed by	Peyton Reed
Written by	Jeff Loveness
Based on	Marvel Comics
Produced by	Kevin Feige Stephen Broussard
Starring	Paul Rudd Evangeline Lilly Jonathan Majors Kathryn Newton David Dastmalchian Katy O’Brian William Jackson Harper Bill Murray Michelle Pfeiffer Corey Stoll Michael Douglas
Cinematography	Bill Pope
Edited by	Adam Gerstel Laura Jennings
Music by	Christophe Beck
Production company	Marvel Studios
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release dates	February 6, 2023 (Regency Village Theatre) February 17, 2023 (United States)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$326.6 million (gross) $276 million (net)
Box office	$476.1 million

Plot

Scott Lang, who fought alongside the Avengers against Thanos, went on to become a well-known memoirist and have a happy life with Hope van Dyne. Cassie, Scott’s now-teenage daughter, has a poor connection with her father as a result of her activism and aiding those displaced by the Blip. Cassie discloses that she has been working on a gadget that can make contact with the Quantum Realm while she is visiting Hope’s parents, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne. When Janet finds out about this, she becomes frightened and slams the gadget shut, but the message gets through and a gateway opens, drawing the five of them into the Quantum Realm. Native Americans who are in rebellion against their monarch discover Scott and Cassie, while Hope, Janet.

Meeting with Janet’s old buddy Lord Krylar, Hope, Janet, and Hank learn that things have changed since Janet departed and that he is now employed by Kang, the new ruler of the Quantum Realm. After being forced to escape, the three take Krylar’s ship for themselves. Meanwhile, Jentorra, the rebel leader, informs the Langs that Janet’s friendship with Kang is partially to blame for his ascent to power. Soon after, the rebels are attacked by Kang’s forces under the command of M.O.D.O.K., who turns out to be Darren Cross, who previously received Cassie’s message and appears to have survived Scott’s apparent death. When Janet tells Hope and Hank that she met Kang back in the Quantum Realm, they are on board Krylar’s ship. According to him.

Cast

• Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man:
  An Avenger and former petty criminal with a suit that allows him to shrink or grow in scale while increasing in strength.^[8] After the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Scott has become a well-known celebrity to the public, as well as the author of an autobiographical book titled Look Out for the Little Guy, which tells a different version of how he helped save the universe from Thanos in Endgame.
• Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / Wasp:
  The daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne who is handed down a similar suit and the Wasp mantle from her mother. She serves as the head of the Pym van Dyne Foundation, which uses the Pym Particles for humanitarian efforts.^[12] Lilly said the film would explore how the character deals with her “fragilities and her vulnerabilities”, continuing from how Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) showed how powerful and capable she was.
• Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror:
  A “time-traveling, multiversal adversary” trapped in the Quantum Realm who needs Pym Particles to get his ship and a device online that would allow him to go anywhere and when in time. Kang is an alternate-timeline variant of the character He Who Remains, the creator of the Time Variance Authority (TVA), who was introduced in the finale of first season of Loki (2021).Kang was described by Loki season one head writer Michael Waldron as the “next big cross-movie villain” for the MCU,^[13] while Quantumania writer Jeff Loveness described Kang as a “top-tier, A-list Avengers villain”. Majors said Kang is different from He Who Remains, who is not in Quantumania, with a shifted psychology, portraying Kang differently from He Who Remains due to the different characters surrounding him and transitioning from a series to a film. He was attracted to Kang’s “character and dimensions” and the potential that presented to him as an actor, noting Kang would be a different type of villain to the MCU than Erik Killmonger and Thanos were, as well as the possibility of playing a complex villain about whom everyone has to be careful, akin to Iago in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello

Production

Director Peyton Reed stated that there were aspects of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) that left “a lot to play with” in a possible third installment in the franchise, prior to the movie’s release. The Quantum Realm was first mentioned in Ant-Man (2015) and is extensively explored in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Reed stated that the earlier movies were “just dipping our toes into it” in his remarks. Reed continued by saying that he and Marvel Studios have talked about possible story lines for a potential third movie and were optimistic about it.Actor Michael Douglas, who played Hank Pym in the movie Ant-Man and the Wasp, stated in February 2019 that there had been unofficial talks about a sequel, though Evangeline Lilly had not heard of any at the time.

When asked about Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang/Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) after Endgame, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that “the chess pieces were arranged very purposefully” at the end of that film, with some taken “off the board” and others, like Ant-Man, “still on you never know.” Michelle Pfeiffer also expressed interest in playing Janet van Dyne again in a follow-up sometime in October of that year. Rudd responded that both of those possibilities had been considered when asked if he would be playing the character again, either in a third Ant-Man movie or as a member of another superhero’s MCU franchise.

Music

By July 2022, it was known that Christophe Beck, who had previously worked on the MCU Disney+ programs WandaVision and Hawkeye (both in 2021), would be writing the soundtrack for the movie. First track “Theme from Quantumania” was published as a digital single on February 12 and the soundtrack album itself was released digitally by Hollywood Records and Marvel Music on February 15, 2023.

Marketing

The film’s first trailer was unveiled at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, where Feige, Reed, and the actors discussed the characters and marketed the movie. Additional footage was unveiled at D23 in September, earning Ryan Leston of IGN the description of “an intriguing glimpse” inside the movie. On October 24, 2022, a teaser trailer for the movie was unveiled. Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” was included in it. Despite the fact that the trailer had “dramatic pauses and tense musical cues” and was “darker than ever” in comparison to the comedic tone of the previous two Ant-Man movies, Tom Chapman of Den of Geek felt it was just “another MCU teaser trailer that does a little too much teasing” to not reveal important details, like the absence of.

Release

February 6, 2023, was the world premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles. On February 17, 2023, the film was released in both China and the United States. Before it was formally revealed as having a May 2021 release date of February 17, 2023, the movie was originally scheduled for release in 2022. In October 2021, it was rescheduled for July 28, 2023, and in April 2022, it was moved back to February 20, 2023. It is the first movie in the MCU and marks the beginning of Phase Five.

Reception

With $214.5 million in revenue in the US and Canada and $261.6 million in other regions, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania brought in a total of $476.1 million globally.Despite a gross production expenditure of $326.6 million, the film’s box office performance was disappointing as it failed to reach its estimated break-even mark of $600 million. Approximately $200 million was the initial reported budget for this project.

Over the course of its four-day Presidents’ Day opening weekend in January 2023, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was expected to bring in $120 million in North America. It was expected to start at $105–110 million domestically and $280 million worldwide the following month. On its opening day, the movie brought in $46 million, with $17.5 million coming from Thursday’s 3 p.m. previews.

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