The ship needs one final component so Hank prepares one of their shrinking cars and shows that the lab also shrinks to the size of a briefcase. Scott reluctantly agrees but insists that he must be back home before the FBI checks in again. Hope and Hank are close to completing the Quantum Realm ship, five minutes after they did a test run Scott called them about the Quantum Realm vision prompting them to theorize that Janet is trying to communicate with them through Scott so they need him back for the mission. Shortly after that Hope extracts Scott out of his house by putting the tracking device on a giant ant to trick the FBI and brings him to the lab where she and Hank are hiding. One afternoon Scott has a bizarre vision where he was still in the Quantum Realm then for some reason became Janet van Dyne confused, Scott sent Hank a message about it. Scott is only a few days away from ending his home arrest sentence and Luis is close to starting a new company for their ex-convict friends. Scott was able to negotiate not being sent to prison, instead he was put under home arrest for two years, however since he used the Ant-Man suit that made Hank an indirect culprit of the incident, now he and Hope have to hide from the FBI and haven't spoken to Scott in two years. When the Avengers broke apart during the Sokovia Accords incident Scott was recruited by Captain America for his team, but he was captured during the conflict. This event rekindled Hank Pym's faith that Janet might still be alive after all.Įver since, Hank and his daughter Janet van Dyne have been working on a special ship that can go in and out of the quantum realm in hopes of finding Janet and bringing her back at the same time Hank finalized a new Wasp suit and gave it to Hope, allowing her to take the mantle her mother once held.
For nearly 30 years Janet was presumed dead, however a few years ago Scott Lang, the new Ant-Man, was also trapped in the Quantum Realm and managed to come back. Tragically, Janet went subatomic to disarm a Soviet nuclear missile during a mission, which resulted in her being trapped in the Quantum Realm. Hank Pym and his wife Janet Van Dyne were a superhero duo known as "Ant-Man and the Wasp", who used Hank's Pym Particle suits to fight crime together. A sequel, titled Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, is in development.īack in the 70s, Dr. Ant-Man and the Wasp had its world premiere in Hollywood on June 25, 2018, and was released in the United States on July 6, 2018, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. It stars Rudd as Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Van Dyne, alongside Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip "T.I." Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas. The film is directed by Peyton Reed and written by the writing teams of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Ant-Man and the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Ant-Man and the Wasp is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne / Wasp.