Ant-Man is drawing some very big inspiration from the events of Avengers: Endgame.
The third Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, his theaters February 17, 2023. When it does, director Peyton Reed and star Paul Rudd exclusively told E! News at 2022 Comic-Con that "The Snap" from 2019's Endgame still has huge ramifications for Ant-Man and, more specifically, his alter ego Scott Lang.
As a refresher: After surviving Thanos' infamous finger snap, Scott was reunited with daughter Cassie (Emma Fuhrmann), now five years older, at the conclusion of Endgame. Kathryn Newton will now play Cassie in Quantumania.
"[Scott]'s daughter Cassie is 18 in this movie now because of the events that happened in Endgame," Peyton said. "What is that like for Scott Lang? His daughter is not a little girl anymore. She's a young woman."
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Peyton, who also directed 2015's Ant-Man and 2018's Ant-Man and the Wasp, isn't taking the opportunity for granted.
"When we made the first Ant-Man, if you had told us we were going to get to do a trilogy, I'm not sure we would have believed you," he said. "We had all of these ideas that we wanted to do and we finally got to do them."
Peyton hinted that Quantumania will involve going into the Quantum Realm to meet "all of these new characters," but he also revealed that there are less-than-sunny days ahead for the film's star, saying, "We're beating the hell out of Scott Lang in this movie."
Regardless, Paul insists that Marvel fans will be pleased with the final product.
"People will be surprised. I think we've still captured what's really fun and unique about the Ant-Man films, but this seems grander in scale," he said. "That sounds like a pun when you're talking about an Ant-Man movie, but it's epic."
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania also stars Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas and Jonathan Majors.