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When Peyton Reed inherited the role of director of Edgar Wright Ant-Man who departed half way to Cape Marvel, he had written a screenplay about a hero that was reduced to fantastic proportions. the Kingdom of Quantum had not yet touched the paper. It's Reed and co-author Adam McKay who thought to create for the screen a version of the alternative dimension where the human concepts of space and time lose their relevance, opening a box of Pandora's Bending Possibilities of Reality
A Cataclysmic Change in the Marvel Movie Universe Later, Their Idea May Hold the Key to Reverse the Most Cruel Events of 1945-19003 Avengers: Infinite War – or if clueless fans could hope.
Ant-Man and Wasp Reed's sunny sequel to his 2015 superhero-origin-story story with Paul Rudd, comes after Marvel's darkest gun entry. Thanos, this purple threat now endowed with all-powerful powers, has decimated the Avengers and pulverized half of the universe, including renowned heroes such as Spider-Man, Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy (less Poor rocket).
The very bouncing Ant-Man and Wasp takes place in the same amount of time, focusing on Scott Lang (Rudd) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) while They travel the Quantum Kingdom in search of the original Wasp, the mother of Hope Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer). Yet, it refers to only once before its own end, a shock to such an extent with the zippy tone of the film that Reed seems at once satisfied, relieved, and half apologetic when discussing
. "Even when we have started working on the screenplay, we knew what was going to be the end of Infinity War and we knew we were coming after this movie, "says Reed by phone from Los Angeles." We kept talking about the question as, well, if this is related to Infinity War is there any news on the TVs in the background? Reconcile the excitement of its own film with the severity of what the Marvel public saw two months ago, he said, was a headache that his team has mostly faced by avoiding the problem on the road "until that." that there is no more road: "We approached this st the structure that is in the last film that we really liked, where we make our film and we make the tone of our film "and then, suddenly," it does something very different. "
" Any this case where there is a strange sense of law that some fans have of their ability to control the content of something strange, or thing where it is like, 'Star Wars is dudes, dude, you can not have women! You will ruin it! "It's so crazy for me.It's okay to have a walrus creature or a robot, but not a woman?" "
The Kingdom of Quantum Granted a Blessing / curse even more delicate. "The good news was that we could do anything we wanted and it was virtually infinite, but it was also bad news because there is so much to handle," says Reed. wave that a microverse of space and time (and not the same as in comics) was further complicated by the way the mechanisms assigned to it in Ant-Man and Wasp could reverberate after War of the Infinite
Before Thanos slammed his fingers, allusions to temporal whirlwinds and quantum entanglement could have remained in the bin to Ant-Man's Sand. (And Dr. Strange, whose opening rings of the portal also allow access to the Quantum Kingdom.) After Infinity War they sound like Tools with the potential to help defeat the devastation of the crazy Titan.This is a united pressure on the shoulders of ant.
"We really had a lot of discussions about this film and this intimate story about the family and this mission to save Hope's mother, how much we stay and tell that story," Reed says to balance the anchored issues from his San Francisco sequel with the cosmic implications of what he reveals about the Quantum Kingdom. His team decided, he says, to explore "just enough" dimension to propel Van Dynes' research, while leaving "little clues about other things" for future Marvel films.
Expect them to do it. Ten years and 20 films, the film universe of Marvel has woven an unprecedented backdrop of details, stories and common characters, from Asgard's fantasy and the galactic domain of the Guardians to sociopolitical intrigues surrounding Captain America and Black Panther, at Peter Parker High School in Queens.
Ant-Man and Wasp however, adds a new singular thread, one whose omission has ostensibly shone from the tapestry for years: a female superhero with equal billing in the title
Ant-Man saw Hope van Dyne of Evangeline Lilly forced by his overprotective father (Hank Pym of Michael Douglas) to train a less competent male substitute to take control of the opportunities that She wanted. It was frustrating – for Hope, and for fans eager to see a Marvel movie finally centering a woman on her own story. (This Wasp, a founding member of the Avengers and the character who named the team in the comics, is sacrificed and disappeared in a similarly stung flashback.)
The sequel honors Hope, at least: her father now sees her as an equal, both scientific and hero, and she brandishes Wasp's costume with confidence. without male interference. "It was really important for us in this film to finally see her as a costumed and well-trained heroine," says Reed. "I think for me, the great joy of this movie was working closely with Evangeline from the beginning, even before the screenplay, when we were talking about the original story and how we wanted to advance his character."
Lilly, who plays a lot of her own stunts in the film, came up with ideas "about how she saw this character and what she wanted to do and not do," recalls Reed. "And it was all very minute details, as it was very early," I do not want to be in a fight sequence and come out with beautiful hair and beautiful nails. I want to sweat when I fight and I want my hair with a very practical ponytail, because that is the only way the helmet will turn on and off. "
" And we really responded, "he adds." I really liked this pragmatic and disjointed approach to being a hero, where it was not the vision of A female hero. "
There are those who prefer filtered female heroes through a male look, of course.Reed laughs by recalling a Twitter user who aimed the movie poster, writing (obviously without irony): "It's the future that the Liberals are planning for you.Women are men and men are women.Nobody knows exactly what the user is going to do Opposition, whether it is Hope's position in front of Scott, his protective clothing from head to toe or his very existence, but his hysterical absurdity makes him an irresistible meme. "Reed is still scratching his head on it.
"The first time I read that I was thinking to myself," Oh, that's a brilliant comic guess, that there's a guy out there that He is so offended by this notion. "I do not think it was real," he says. "I mean, I know it's finally funny, but it's like, shocking to me."
A "cool nerd" self-confessed for movies and comics growing up, Reed understands what it's like to be an unconditional fan. "But this whole thing where there is a strange sense of law that some fans have about their ability to control the content of something in a strange way, or that thing where it's like," Star Wars you can not have women! You will ruin it! "It's so crazy for me – it's fine to have a walrus creature or a robot, but not a woman?"
"The pinnacle for me, whatever." it is, it is trying to petition to remake The Last Jedi Rian Johnson's movie.Rian and I laughed about it because it's so much "But the outliers aside, he thinks the majority of fans, especially Marvel films," just want to see the world around them reflect. They want to see a reflection of reality and someone who talks to them and their concerns and that it relates, and it goes to gender and ethnicity and all the rest. "
Reed's response to Twitter's user has doubled as a plug for his greatest hits:" Dude if it scares you, you should check out my cheerleader comedy or my Doris Day / Rock Hudson tribute, "he quipped, referring to his classic break-out comedy of the '00s Bring It On and his 2003 rom-com Down with Love . "Telling stories about women has been part of my film making for a long time, so seeing that it's a conflict for someone is fundamentally strange to me," he says now.
Romantic comedies helped inform the dynamics between Scott and Hope, too, whose partnership is evolving more naturally now that the two see themselves as equal: "Stuff like History of Philadelphia and His Daughter Friday and It happened one night "he says. "Like the real old romantic comedies where the female characters were incredibly well written and where there was mutual respect and where women have largely contributed to the plot." It was something that was the reference in the film world a few decades ago, so that should not be a revelation. "
For a gag where a character suddenly inhabits Paul Rudd's body through quantum entanglement, Reed watched a scene from 1984 All of Me in which the character of Lily Tomlin requisitioned Steve Martin to perfect the burlesque effect. "Because we have Paul Rudd, I mean, it was a big swing for this movie but it was like, it could be awesome ," he says. "We should do that and commit ourselves to doing it and make it real.And it's really fun to see that with an audience now because it's really weird."
Reed nerd n & # 39; Is not harder than the memory of working with the biggest film of his film: Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne, actress's first superhero movie since her iconic turn as Catwoman in Batman Returns . A brief retrospective in the first Ant-Man offered a fleeting glimpse of the original Wasp: round, expressive eyes behind a mask, which Reed asked casting director Sarah Halley Finn of her own. to approach Pfeiffer. "He met Pfeiffer for the first time in a conference room at Marvel HQ:" Just the two of us, somehow to her about this world, these types of movies, and the legacy of this character in the comics and his role in this film. And she really understood, "he recalls. "She obviously played Catwoman but I did not know what her appetite would be for playing that kind of character, and she really came up with the idea that it is a legacy Marvel hero and that all of it. Intrigue was really based on his research. "
Reed tore Pfeiffer's" filmography "before working with her, exalted:" I was delighted she is Michelle Pfeiffer and I was delighted because I "I had no backup plan," he says with a laugh, his airtime in the movie is unfortunately short, but Marvel could still ask for a third sequel, and for more than Janet van Dyne. [19659003] Of course, she and the rest of the Ant – verses will have to first do it over the next year Avengers 4 living.Fingers (and antennas) crossed
