Marvel Dropped Some Juicy Reveals Nigh Captain Marvel and Ant-Man and the Wasp

We won't demand to say adept-bye to this guy. Photo: Curiosity

On a trip through the Curiosity Studios offices Mon, journalists were shown scenes and goodies from several of the studio's upcoming comic-book films, including Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Yous'll get to see all three of those movies in theaters inside the next year, but Marvel even showed us concept art drafted for films beyond that, including Avengers: Infinity State of war (out May 4, 2018), Pismire-Human and the Wasp (arriving July half dozen, 2018), and a brand-new origin story, Captain Curiosity, which has set Brie Larson to play the titular superhero but isn't due until March 8, 2019.

Our perusal of Ant-Human being and the Wasp proved to exist the nearly revealing, in more ways than 1. Director Peyton Reed, who helmed the first Ant-Man, walked united states through a wall of concept art for the presently-to-shoot sequel that hinted at the new moving picture'south even bigger concept: Inventor Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), who bequeathed his incredible shrinking suit to Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), has now avant-garde his size-altering technology to the point that "it'southward not just the suit that'southward the vessel for shrinking and growing," Reed told u.s..

Indeed, in the earth of Ant-Human and the Wasp, information technology seems similar anything is fair game for a seismic shift: We saw one keyframe where a van full of people had been shrunk down to the indicate where a dog was running around with it in its mouth similar a toy machine, and some other shot where centipede-type creatures had been diddled up to a massive, urban center-threatening length. Lang'south Ant-Human was however able to commandeer different insects in his tiniest form, just blown upwards to the aforementioned giant size he unleashed in Captain America: Civil War, he used his torso in one slice of concept art to bridge a long and perilous chasm, letting cars bulldoze over his arms and shoulders without falling into the abyss beneath.

Reed besides showed us Ant-Homo'southward new suit, which doesn't look dramatically different from his original or Civil War expect but blends the best elements of both, as well as two iterations of the flying Wasp suit that volition be worn by Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) in the sequel. There was also a conspicuous piece of concept art detailing the original Wasp suit worn by Hope'due south lost female parent, Janet Van Dyne, which we glimpsed briefly in flashback form during the kickoff Ant-Human. In that film, we learned that Janet shrunk herself downwards to a level so tiny that she disappeared into a quantum realm, and then it's natural to expect that a futurity Ant-Homo movie — likely this sequel — might involve a search for her.

I pointed to the glossy rendering of Janet'south suit. "We'll run into this 1 again, won't nosotros?" I asked Reed.

He couldn't divulge that but instead laughed loudly, which felt like a hint. "Only time volition tell," Reed teased.

Hanging on the wall right by Janet Van Dyne were several illustrations of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, though Marvel executive and producer Jeremy Latcham cautioned that "by the time the Captain Marvel movie comes out, whether she'll be wearing that verbal costume … who knows?" He explained that Curiosity Studios volition ofttimes committee long-lead art to prove to potential directors meeting with the studio, but it would be a surprise if the character's final expect changed that much, since the concept fine art effectively translated the blueish jumpsuit with red accents that Ballad Danvers, Larson's iteration of Helm Curiosity, historically wears in the comic books.

The most exciting piece of concept art generated for the film showed Helm Curiosity fighting ii giant robotic baddies, ane fist most to clank confronting metal, the other held in reserve and readying a fiery energy nail. I asked Latcham if he'd sent Larson the concept art to get her hyped.

"Oh, dude," he replied, giddy. "Non just have nosotros sent it to her, but there's a video of her seeing information technology. You guys probably won't be seeing it anytime soon, but she was super-psyched."

Await the studio to announce a director soon. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has been meeting with directors for the ameliorate part of a year, simply according to a chatty Reed, they've finally settled on a helmer he wasn't permitted to name.

And then, opposite a wall that featured all those heroes, we saw concept art of Thanos from Avengers: Infinity War. Josh Brolin's purple baddie has been pulling the strings since the kickoff Avengers picture, though aside from two brief scenes in Guardians of the Milky way, he'due south mostly been relegated to Curiosity's post-credit scenes. That will change during this side by side Avengers squad-upward, where Thanos finally leaves his comic throne to fight the Guardians, the Avengers, and all of the newer recruits like Doctor Foreign and Black Panther.

In the keyframe we saw, Thanos wore a shit-eating smirk, a sleeveless mauve waistcoat, and some pretty practical pants and boots. Behind him, an out-of-focus spire jutted out at a Pisa-similar angle: Had he leveled a metropolitan metropolis on World, or simply decorated an outer-infinite surface area in an awfully dangerous way? It wasn't easy to tell, but it felt plumbing fixtures that the illustration was placed so that he was staring downwardly concept art of Ant-Human, the Wasp, and Captain Curiosity. If the Avengers want to take down the big purple guy, they'll surely need all of that new trio's special talents.

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