Peyton Reed says she “metaphorically kicked Kevin Feige’s door” by asking for an AVENGERS-sized ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA

The next Marvel movie is Peyton Reedthe third Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania. The first film was an introduction to the character of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), and the second was a fun adventure with a pivotal post-credits scene, but this third film promises to up the ante, taking the MCU to a whole new level.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Reed talked about how he was ready to make a meaningful Marvel movie in the same spirit as one of the avengers movie.

“People were like, Oh, these are fun little palate cleansers after a giant one avengers movie. For this third one, I said, “I don’t want to be the palate cleaner anymore.” I want to be the big one avengers movie.'”

When asked if Reed kicked in Marvel boss Kevin Feige’s door when he decided to make this statement, Reed said:

“I did it metaphorically kicked in Kevin Feige’s door”.

Reed went on to talk about one of his favorite aspects of the story in the film, which is the father-daughter relationship between Scott Lang and his daughter Cassie. We loved their dynamic in the first two movies, but in this movie, the role is taken by the actress Kathryn Newtonwhich aged the character by a few years.

“One of the most intriguing things I was excited to do in this film was the progression of the Scott-Cassie relationship. Ant man movie, the big difference here is that, as a result of Game over, Cassie is now a young woman. She has become a scientific mind in her own right. She went through Hank Pym’s old journals and notebooks and really latched on to this idea of ​​quantum science and quantum technology.”

It’s thanks to Cassie that our heroes spend much of the film in the Quantum Realm, the microscopic and bizarre universe from which Pfeiffer’s character was rescued in 2018. Ant-Man and the Wasp.

“In the first one, we introduced the idea of ​​the Quantum Realm, we kind of dived into it, and then even more in the second one. But of course we left a lot of questions unanswered. We wanted to go in a different direction, and create a film epic where most of it takes place in the Quantum Realm. For me that was really exciting, because the other two movies take place in San Francisco, and this, we were creating this incredibly complex subatomic world, and all the environments and ecosystems and the creatures and beings that inhabit that world.”

Reed went on to talk about the film’s villain, Kang the Conqueror, played by Jonathan Major:

“I grew up a true Marvel Comics nerd, and there are a handful of antagonists in the Marvel Comics universe that are all time. Loki, of course. Doctor Doom from the Fantastic Four. And Kang the Conqueror. In conversations with Kevin Feige and Marvel, he was like, I want to pit Ant-Man and the Wasp against a really formidable villain in this movie, so we’re doing Kang the Conqueror. In the comics, Kang has dominion over time, he’s a time traveler. His situation is a little different in this movie, which I won’t spoil, but it’s someone who, [while] we live very linear lives, from childhood to death, Kang doesn’t exist like that. It seemed interesting to me to take the smaller Avengers – in some people’s minds perhaps the least powerful Avengers – and pit them against the most powerful force in the multiverse.”

We were introduced to Kang at the end of Loki Season 1, and it definitely gave us a terrific feeling. I am so excited about this movie, like the Ant man the movies are some of my favorites in the MCU. I can’t wait to see where the story goes and what it will mean for the future of the MCU.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania hits theaters February 17.