Bottom line, after losing the man who worked on developing it for nearly a decasde, ANT-MAN was on the wrong side of headlines and carried a lot of cautious optimism for a very long time. Today, its $517 million worldwide take (as of the publishing of this post) shut up all that noise.
So much so that Marvel Studios green lit ANT-MAN AND THE WASP.
Director Peyton Reed has now confirmed, to Yahoo, he is in talks with Marvel to return to the director's chair. And he's also happy to get in on the ground floor to develop ANT-MAN AND THE WASP himself.
“We’re [still] in negotiations, but I think it’s looking pretty good. I think one of the appealing things about coming back for a sequel is to be able to build it from the ground up this time. Also, [there’s] stuff that we clearly set up in the first movie that we want to pay off and have fun with in the second movie. Since we know [the characters’] origins, we can go in some weird, unique and different territory.”
Reed, then, teases the title's female hero... the Wasp.
“It just happened to be organic for the characters of Ant-Man and Wasp, [so] it worked. Her last line in the movie — ‘It’s about damn time’ — [is] very much about her specific character and arc in that movie, but it is absolutely about a larger thing. It’s about damn time: We’re going to have a fully realized, very very complicated hero in the next movie who happens to be a woman.”
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP releases on July 6, 2018.
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