Ant-Man 3 director reveals Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly will be equals
Ant-Man 3 director Peyton Reed has revealed that Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly's characters will be regarded as equals in the movie.
Ant-Man and the Wasp was the first ever Marvel Cinematic Universe project to feature a female superhero in its title, and Reed now looks to build on that for the next instalment.
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Speaking to Yahoo Entertainment about the Wasp, aka Hope van Dyne (Lilly), he said: "They’re a partnership, and she’s 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."
On how he's planning to keep the Wasp at the forefront alongside Rudd's Scott Lang for Ant-Man 3, he added: "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."
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Back in April, it was announced that Rick and Morty writer Jeff Loveness had been hired to work on the Ant-Man 3 script.
Marvel officially confirmed in November 2019 that Reed would be returning to direct the third instalment, with Michael Peña previously suggesting that they'll start shooting some time next year.
Ant-Man 3 is currently set to hit cinemas in 2022.
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