Kevin Feige mentioned within the press convention that Marvel’s want to solid Michelle Pfeiffer goes again to the primary “Ant-Man” movie, the place we noticed the unique Wasp however not her face:

“I’ve to say, when it comes to the trilogy, the ‘Ant-Man’ trilogy, there’s a flashback within the first movie to The Wasp, the unique Wasp, Janet van Dyne. We do not see her face. She’s carrying a masks. And it was at all times our dream that sometime we may make one other film and that Michelle Pfeiffer may play that character.”

Pfeiffer’s casting was additionally a dream of director Peyton Reed’s, who shared in a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter that she was at all times his best choice for Janet.”We used a double [Hayley Lovitt] on the primary film,” he advised THR. “However the entire thing was, ‘I need her to appear like Michelle Pfeiffer as a result of that will be my dream casting for Wasp.'” He went on to disclose that they solid Lovitt as a double as a result of she had “actually saucer-like, Michelle Pfeiffer eyes.”

The choice to solid Pfeiffer clearly went past her aesthetic, although. Pfeiffer provides a gravitas to Janet van Dyne that speaks to her time within the quantum realm and the trauma she suffered there. She’s been by three a long time of survival in an unfamiliar, harmful land stuffed with creatures she’s by no means seen earlier than. Janet has a darker really feel than the remainder of her household and stands proud due to it, as she ought to. 

You’ll be able to try the additional adventures of the buggy superfamily when “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” hits theaters on February 17, 2023.