By far one of the most gratifying (and hilarious) pay-offs of Civil War was seeing Scott Lang reverse his ant-motif and turn gigantic. Not only did we get a fantastic callback to the Hawkeye/Ant-Man version of the notorious 'fastball special', we got to see Lang throw War Machine around with the best laugh/face to have featured in the MCU thus far.
And, while this is still an Ant-Man movie, it would almost seem like a waste if we didn't get to see more gigantic set-pieces in the sequel. It seems as though it's a given, however, seeing as how director Peyton Reed was gutted to have missed out on the opportunity to portray Scott's giant persona onscreen for the first time.
Still though, it's clear that the director is looking to display some truly brilliant action sequences in Ant-Man and The Wasp, with both Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly's characters bound to receive their own gigantic surprises when it drops next summer.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
