Why Peyton Reed, Director of Ant-Man and The Wasp?

[Note: Major spoilers ahead for “Ant-Man and The Wasp. Seriously, if you haven’t seen the movie, we recommend not reading further.]

One of the big stars of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is the mysterious Ghost, (superbly performed by Hannah John-Kamen), a masked and science fiction fighter who can become intangible – which means that she can get through the walls, go invisible, and so on – and that makes life hell for our heroes. But just like its capabilities of "quantum phasing", not everything is as it seems.

We learn later that she is a young woman named Ava Starr, who got her powers when she was exposed to a failed attempt to recreate the technology. this makes Ant-Man and Wasp possible. Now, these same powers are killing her and her actions seemingly are due to her quest to find a cure before it's too late.

All of this is very different from his comic counterpart. Although the character is new to Marvel's film universe, Ghost has been present in comics for over 30 years, but in a very different form. Originally conceived, Ghost is a man, a tragic villain rather than an antihero, and an enemy of Iron-Man rather than Ant-Man and the Wasp. Speaking to TheWrap, Peyton Reed, the director of "Ant-Man and The Wasp", explained how and why he changed the character so that he would sit in his corner of the MCU.

See also: 52 ranked Marvel films, including "Ant" We found Ghost and we were free to reinvent this character as we wanted, and obviously we turned it into a she , but we also created a character that was really in the tone of our film and the theme of the fathers and girls.This corresponds to our film, "tells Reed to TheWrap

" Ghost is a much less known antagonist in the world of comics, "he continued. "I've really dug up that character's look and power, but in terms of the backstory or character in the comics, I did not find it very convincing, I thought that's why." Was annoying, so it was really a chance to create a character from scratch for this movie that really had a personal connection with our heroes and especially with Hank Pym and I liked that. " 19659006] Read also: Is' Ant-Man and The Wasp & # 39; have a message -Credit Scene?

Created in 1987 by David Michelinie and Bob Layton, Ghost appeared for the first time in Iron-Man number 219 "The Ghost and the Machine." Unlike his counterpart MCU, Ghost was a successful data engineer. a major computer company, where he created GhostTech, a series of computer chips that could enter an intangible state before overheating, while still operating and holding an incredible amount of data.

The executives of the company where Ghost worked have manipulated him to keep him productive and in return the rich. And to make a short story, after Ghost finishes the GhostTech project, the company kills his girlfriend (who says that bad guys backstories can not have fridging?) And after a depression, he implants GhostTech in his body, forming a cybernetic connection with the systems of the company. Discovering the truth behind the death of his girlfriend, he seeks revenge on corporate leaders before devoting his wickedness to corporate sabotage.

See also: 13 major persistent questions after seeing 'Ant and Wasp'. [19659002] "[We liked that] that could inform the thing that we had put in place in the first movie, that was, Hank Pym is a mentor but he also has some problems, no? He has anger issues and, we have set up that he does not play well with others and that's something we've reinforced somehow in this movie, "said Reed. "I like the idea that in this generational hero story there could be consequences, you know, the results of the sins of the father could somehow come to revisit the child."

"I also love the fact that we had our father literal -the girls' stories with Scott [Lang] and Cbadie and Hank [Pym] and Hope [Van Dyne] and maybe that he could There was a kind of dynamic father-daughter figurative with Ava Starr, so for all these reasons, it was just the right tone for our film and the logical progression of our heroes. "

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