‘Ant-Man 3’ Will Be “More Sprawling” Than The First Two Movies, Says Director Peyton Reed
Marvel Studios is currently in a holding pattern as the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep the United States in a chokehold. There’s been a longer hiatus between the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe than was initially planned thanks to movie theaters being closed and the release ofBlack Widowbeing delayed. But there are still big plans for the next era of the MCU, and we mean that literallyandfiguratively when it comes to theAnt-Manfranchise.
DirectorPeyton Reedis returning forAnt-Man 3(or maybeAnt-Man and the Wasp 2), and while he’s not able to divulge any groundbreaking pieces of information about the developing sequel, he did say that it would be “a much bigger, more sprawling movie” than the previous two installments in the franchise.
Peyton Reed recently appeared on SiriusXM’sThe Jess Cagle Show(viaCollider), and the director was asked about the status of the nextAnt-Manmovie. Reed said:
“We are working away through the pandemic. There’s some really really really exciting things in store, none of which of course I could speak to you about right now, as is the Marvel way…I think the thirdAnt-Manmovie is going to be a much bigger, more sprawling movie than the first two. It’s going to have a very different visual template.”
The first twoAnt-Manmovies took place almost exclusively in San Francisco, and they’re much smaller in scope than any of the other movies in the MCU. So ifAnt-Man 3is bigger and more sprawling, then we might finally see Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) take their size-bending heist skills across the world to deal with a larger threat. Of course, we don’t have any idea what kind of danger Ant-Man and the Wasp will be facing in the third movie, or how it might tie into any possible overarching plot in Phase 4 of the MCU. So anything is possible.
The good news is that whatever challengesAnt-Man 3has in store, they’ll be tackled by Ant-Man and the Wasp working together again. Not too long ago, Reed reaffirmed the idea that this isn’t just the Ant-Man show anymore. When it comes to Ant-Man and the Wasp, Reed toldYahoo:
“They’re a partnership, and [The Wasp] a very, very important part of that. And that was a very gratifying thing, I guess technically we were the first Marvel movie with a female hero in the title of the movie. Finding that balance in that movie, that’s very important to me because that’s very much a men’s playing field, historically. But that’s really, really changing now in a great way.”
So whenever the third installment of theAnt-Manfranchise comes around, we can probably expect it to keep theAnt-Man and the Wasptitle. As for when we’ll actually see it, there hasn’t been a release date set yet, so stay tuned.
