3. The Cast And Crew Have Been Absorbing All The Comics
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Though it may not sound as though Ant-Man possesses the history of his Avengers counterparts, the character has been going for an awfully long time, picking up his debut in 1962 and subsequently going on to star in multiple solo books and, of course, The Avengers themselves.
Reed has previously indicated that he's been spending his days in between projects reading and absorbing everything he can get his hands on when it comes to the hero, going back to Hank Pym's first appearances in The Avengers all the way up to Nick Spencer's modern run on the character. The series' certainly add up over time, and so it should come as no surprise that Ant-Man and The Wasp will be looking to incorporate all aspects of the character's lore when it releases next year.
The director is also said to be taking visual cues from the comics as well. It was a technique we saw deployed to great effect by Joe and Anthony Russo in Civil War, so the fact we'll be seeing more in the sequel should certainly give diehard fans of the character much to look forward to.
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.
