Director Peyton Reed on Creating Ant-Man and The Wasp

Exclusive: Director Peyton Reed on the Creation of Ant-Man and The Wasp [19659004] In Ant-Man and The Wasp we catch up with the smallest heroes on Earth. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is so close to completing his home jail sentence when Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) and Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) get up for help after making a breakthrough in Janet van Dyne's research (Michelle Pfeiffer). Since he owes them to blow the cover of their technology at the airport in Germany to help Cape Town, he once again dons the costume but this time joins Hope as she finally enters the role from The Wasp.

Recently, ComingSoon [19659006] met with Peyton Reed to discuss the moment of Ant-Man and The Wasp developing the family relationships introduced in the first film and adopting a different approach of justice with the antagonists of the film.

ComingSoon: Were you aware in pre-production that Ant-Man and The Wasp would arrive at the same time at Infinity War?

Peyton Reed: The film is interesting because it is a sequel to Ant-Man but it is also a sequel to Captain America: Civil War because what happened with Scott Lang in this film could not ignore it and it provided us with an interesting and organic starting point. I kept thinking about what Hank Pym and Hope were thinking about the fact that he had taken this costume and was involved in Avengers fights and had exposed Hank's technology to Tony Stark. It's the worst nightmare of Hank Pym. This led us to situate where would not it be cool if a few years later Scott was under house arrest and that he had Hank and Hope in trouble and that they were separated at the beginning of the film. This is the starting point of the film and the circumstances force Hank and Hope to come back into Scott's life and they have to form this difficult partnership. It seems like a really cool place to start. We knew it would be some time after Civil War .

CS: The film focuses on all these relationships. He has distant relations. Hope is right: if she had been to the airport in Germany, she could have learned from it.

Reed: I like the idea that in a film entitled Ant-Man and The Wasp it is clear that Hope is the most capable of heroes. She is definitely the most committed and the one who has waited the longest. You see that in the first movie, she is the best person who is better equipped to handle the plan that Hank would not allow and did not want her to experience the same fate as his wife. But not that she's a heroine and that she's being trained, she's smart and decisive, one of the things I ran with was this idea of ​​"Do I need one?" partner? And if I need a partner, what will Scott Lang be? Every time Scott puts on the suit, it creates a lot of complications for him. So, he tries to understand his work-life balance. "Is there room in my life to be Ant-Man?" Because he's threatened to get away from my daughter several times. These people are both heroes, but they have very different approaches to being a hero.

CS: And the way that complicates the relationship between Scott and Cassie reflects how it affected Hank and Janet with the young hope. Was this where you wanted to keep the focus on the themes of this film around the family?

PR: I like very much the fact that the films Ant-Man are more intimate, they unfold in a corner of the MCU in San Francisco and the mission within reach of hand in this movie, is the most intensely personal mission you could imagine and I like movies being on the family and I think that 's one of the strengths of it. I also love that it happens in our real world. Scott Lang is not a genius, he is not a billionaire. He is a person who has made mistakes and Hope is the daughter of these two heroes of the legacy who are trying to find his identity as hero. It is like that is a little their relatable problems. Their problems focused on the family.

CS: The film takes a different approach to justice. The antagonist is not necessarily a bad guy in the end goal of having them stopped or taken care of. They with their partner have motivations with high stakes. So it seems that the film explores justice more by transforming all relationships with healing. After the big bad guy from Thanos, was it intentional to bring us something different?

PR: That's something we thought about, especially given the tone of Ant-Man and The Was p, we wanted a villain who did not feel not in its place in our world. Part of the game was to find Ghost, who was a man in the comics, but who seemed interesting to put Ghost in front of a combined team of Ant-Man and The Wasp but we liked the idea of ​​staying faithful to our themes. We loved the idea that was about forgiveness and atonement for past sins and can hope to find sorry for Scott for the things he's done and somehow these events in Hank's past Pym who come back to haunt them. I liked the idea from the beginning that Ghost could have these powers but the powers are a burden and it's really an affliction, and his main purpose of the film is to find a cure for it.

CS: The whole thing is fantastic and seeing Laurence Fishburne enter Bill Foster and seeing him play Michael Douglas was awesome. Was there anyone you had in mind as Bill during the casting?

PR: I was a Marvel cartoon child when I was little and Bill Foster was a character I loved. I loved the idea of ​​Goliath and a character from our film who was kind of a rival to Hank Pym. Every scientist thought that he was the smartest guy in the room. To have this character play against Michael Douglas, you need an actor who really has some gravity and can hold his own. Laurence Fishburne was my first and only choice, I was delighted that he said yes. What I did not know about him, is that he's a comedic nerd and I mean he's really it. Even in his time off, he will read a graphic novel. He runs to the bottom of nerdom. It was just a joy to work with and between people taking questions about spending a year in the jungle on Apocalypse Now and The Matrix . All these stories.

CS: We want to walk in the film and the repercussions of Infinity War, but was there any direction from Marvel?

PR: The universe of Marvel Cinematic is this constant evolving creature. I think it's interesting because a lot of people ask "What did you say you had to do in this movie? What did you have to do "We were not told anything about this movie and one of the cool stuff is that I ask myself this question sometimes with Kevin Feige about" Should we do this? "Says & # 39; No, do what is best for this film and the people who will come after you will have to find out what to do next, which I think is a good thing. good attitude. One of the great things about the MCU is keeping it cool and giving way to new heroes to share the stage.

CS: Ghost is awesome and someone who, I hope, will make other movies. We have seen Loki through several movies have her bow and she would be interesting to see more …

PR: There are a lot of things to decide about Ghost's character in terms of how we let's leave this character and this is the next. It can go in different ways.

Ant-Man and The Wasp opens this week!