Evangeline Lilly Is Certain Ant-Man 3 Will Surpass the First Two Films

Marvel Studio’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is still more than a year away, but it’s never too early to get people hyped up about it.

Evangeline Lilly, who plays Hope van Dyne aka the Wasp in the MCU, has teased that the upcoming film is going to be the best one in the trilogy yet.

While talking to The Digital Fix, Lilly talked about what went into the filming process and all the challenges faced due to the pandemic,

We finished filming at the end of November, and I think, hands down, it was the hardest one we’ve made. It was the most difficult. It was the only one we’ve made during the Covid lockdowns. That just adds such an incredible complication to making a movie. It adds a lot of stress. It makes things very impersonal because you can’t see faces.

Lilly

Of course, as Marvel is very strict about leaks and spoilers, Lilly didn’t reveal much about the plot, but she added,

But I actually think…what we did, the stuff we shot, the material we managed to get, I think it might be the best one yet.

Lilly

Both the Ant-Man films have had good ratings and reception, being one of MCU’s less serious and more comedic titles.

Not much is known about the threequel’s plot except that the tiny heroes will explore the Quantum Realm further and use more of Pym-tech. There have been speculations of Cassie joining Scott and Hope on their adventures and ultimately transforming into Stature/Stinger like the comics.

Earlier in December, Bill Murray confirmed that he was entering the MCU as a “bad guy” with Ant-Man 3. When asked about what kind of superpowers he’d have in the film during his appearance on The Eli Manning Show, Murray joked,

My power is, I’m a bad guy.

Bill Murray

However, that was all he revealed about Quantumania before moving on to the next question. As we know, Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror will be the primary villain; it is uncertain where Murray’s mystery character would come into play.

Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is currently slated for a release on July 28, 2023.

About Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne / Wasp. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Motion Pictures, it is intended to continue the story of Ant-Man after Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) as a part of the MCU.

Directed by Peyton Reed, it was released on February 17, 2023. Filming began in early February 2021 in Turkey and was also shot in Atlanta, London, and Los Angeles.

It is the thirty-second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first instalment of the MCU’s Phase V. The movie follows Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne and Cassie Lang, battling against the evil time traveler Kang the Conqueror.