Paul Rudd details Scott Lang’s life after Avengers: Endgame | Pretty Reel

Paul Rudd explains what Ant-Man’s life was like between the events of Avengers: Endgame and the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Paul Rudd explains what happened to Ant-Man between the events of Avengers: Endgame and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Rudd has played Scott Lang, also known as Ant-Man, since 2015’s Ant-Man, a role he reprized in various Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including 2016’s Captain America: Civil War and Ant-Man and the Wasp in 2018. His last appearance was in the massive crossover effort Avengers: Endgame in 2019, though he was referenced in that year’s Disney+ series Ms. Marvel when superhero fangirl Kamala Khan revealed that he hosts a podcast about the Avengers.

Hyper Omelete shared a video from the Marvel panel at the Brazil Comic Con Experience convention, where they discussed the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is set to hit theaters on February 17, 2023. Rudd was on the panel and he was asked to explain a bit more where Lang’s headspace goes in this new adventure. The star revealed that “Scott is trying to figure out where are we going in life now,” and while he’s looking forward to a new chapter, the one he’s getting is somewhat unexpected. Read his full quote below:

Of course, a lot has changed since the last film. Well, on the one hand, we saved the universe. It hadn’t happened yet. So now a lot has happened since Ant-Man and the Wasp ended. I think Scott is trying to figure out where are we going in life now. He is still very close to his daughter and he is looking forward to the next chapter.

Just like in life, chapters aren’t what you expect them to be. So pretty quickly a chain of events happens and we’re thrown into a pretty big story.

Why Ant-Man 3 is launching Phase 5

During the convention, Marvel also shared additional footage from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The clip they showed revealed even more about Scott Lang’s post-Endgame status, providing more context for the Ms. Marvel podcast. It seems like most of the main Avengers have proven to be over the course of the MCU, Ant-Man has now become something of a celebrity thanks to his instrumental role in saving the universe after Thanos portrayed The Snap.

Ant-Man stories are generally smaller-scale adventures, focusing on various sci-fi criminal enterprises in and around San Francisco. However, now that he’s entered the world stage, it makes sense that the little hero would be the first release of the MCU’s Phase Five. This phase will launch the next part of the multiverse saga, leading to the team-up movies Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars in 2025 and 2026 respectively.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will fully embrace its status as a film that seriously kicks off the overarching story of the next two phases by reintroducing Jonathan Majors as Kang, the villain who first appeared in the final episode of the season 1 of Disney+’s Loki In addition to this character’s inclusion, another reason the film kicks off phase five is the quantum technology being developed by the characters in the franchise’s Ant-Man branch. This will likely prove just as useful in uniting the multiverse against Kang as the sorcery wielded by Doctor Strange.

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