Set between the events of Captain America: Civil War and Avengers:
Infinity War, Scott Lang, now under house
arrest after the events of Civil War,[1] tries to
balance his home life as a father with his responsibilities as Ant-Man,
when Hope van Dyne and Hank Pym present him
with a new mission to bring to light secrets from their past, teaming up with
Van Dyne as the new Wasp.
Cast
Paul Rudd as Scott
Lang / Ant-Man:
A former petty criminal who acquired a suit that allows him to shrink or grow
in scale while also increasing in strength.[3] Following
the events of Captain America: Civil War, in which Lang escapes
from the Raft
prison, director Peyton Reed said that
"he’s a fugitive in most of the first Ant-Man movie. He’s
just a bigger fugitive now."
Evangeline
Lilly as Hope van Dyne /
Wasp:
The daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, who
is bequeathed a similar
suit and the Wasp mantle from her mother.[3] The writers
were "so excited about now being able to show [Hope] fully formed and what
she is as a superhero. Her power set, how she fights, and what are the
injustices that matter to her that she wants to right. That's part of the
really fun thing of the [film]."
Michael
Peña as Luis:
Lang's former cellmate and a member of his crew. Peña said
that there was less opportunity for improvisation with his character compared
to Ant-Man.
Hannah
John-Kamenas Ghost:
A criminal with the ability to phase through objects. The character is
traditionally portrayed as male in the comics, but was made to be female for
the film because the creative team believed that the character's gender was
irrelevant to its portrayal, and felt it would be more interesting to cast a
woman in the role.
Laurence
Fishburne as Bill
Foster:
An old friend of Pym's who was once his assistant.[12][14] Fishburne
had approached Marvel about joining the MCU, pitching them a few ideas for who
he could portray, before Marvel offered him the role of Foster in the film.[14] Despite
having already portrayed Perry White for
the DC
Extended Universe, Fishburne admitted that he had always fantasized
about being in an MCU film, admitting that he considered himself a "Marvel
guy".
A former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent,
entomologist, and physicist who became the original Ant-Man in 1963 after
discovering the subatomic particles that make the transformation possible.
Additionally, Ant-Man and Wasp co-creator Stan Lee has a cameo
in the film