Ant-Man & The Wasp: 17 Things We Learned From The Director's Commentary

3. The Car Fight Was Influenced By The Raid 2

Ant Man And The Wasp
Marvel Studios

The film's third act car chase homages a number of movies, most prominently the Steve McQueen classic Bullitt and the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?, both of which feature chases set in San Francisco.

A more surprising and contemporary movie however influenced Reed's decision to have Wasp using her powers to fight Sonny Burch's (Walton Goggins) men inside their own vehicle: The Raid 2.

Reed loved that movie's incredible, confined fight scene inside a car and relished the idea of reworking it with the Wasp's abilities in mind, and the result is one of the movie's coolest action beats, brief though it is.

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