Following the weighty magnificence of Avengers: Infinity War, it’s nice to see that the Marvel Cinematic Universe can still return to the smaller stories. Especially the microscopic ones. Director Peyton Reed’s new ANT-MAN AND THE WASP trailer is a fun and energetic and packed to the gills with action. You can check it out below.
Set to the tune of Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, it shows a sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man that gets surprisingly big in parts, whipping out Giant Man in the opening moments and flipping in and out of the tinyverse from there on in. Showcasing Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) teaming up to enter the Quantum Realm, working with Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) to find his long lost wife Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), it’s everything you’d want a modern film about an Ant-person to be.
We also get to see the first real footage of Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) in action, and Laurence Fishburne and Rudd comparing size at the end of the trailer might be worth the price of admission alone. We don’t get any sense of the fate of the Avengers following Infinity War, because this film takes place shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War. That said, we wouldn’t rule out any post-credits sequences giving us a hint of the rainbow connections, and where we can expect to see Scott and Hope in Avengers Untitled.
Now our only question that remains: what happens to the plumbing when they shrink that building? ANT-MAN AND THE WASP hits cinemas on 5 July 2018 in Australia, and on 6 July 2018 in the US, from Disney.
