‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’: Evangeline Lilly Takes Lead in New CinemaCon Footage

Lawrence Yee
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The next entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is this summer’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, but judging by newly released footage at CinemaCon, Evangeline Lilly’s superheroine should get top billing as The Wasp and Ant-Man.

The action-filled sequences show Lilly’s Wasp as not only a partner to Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man, but at times, his superior.

“You go low, I’ll go high,” Ant-Man orders ahead of one fight.

“I have wings, why would I go low” Wasp retorts and she forges ahead.

It’s clear she’s a capable fighter. As seen in previous trailers, inventor Hank Pym has outfitted his daughter Hope Van Dyne’s suit with more technological capabilities than Scott Lang’s Ant-Man suit. The Wasp can not only shrink, but she can fly via wings and emit energy blasts from her wrists.

The Wasp puts those new abilities to good use in the new footage, which Marvel Studios showed exclusively in Las Vegas. A shrunken Wasp flies into a car, enlarging and taking the hitmen passengers by surprise. She then shrinks again to avoid their blows, acrobatically flipping around the car frame.

The footage also showed more from the kitchen fight scene show in previous trailers, where The Wasp shrinks and runs across the blade of a knife thrown at her. Later in that scene, a salt shaker is thrown at a hitman and enlarged, knocking him out.

If anything, Ant-Man does more “growing” than shrinking. During what looks like the same car pursuit, he grows to more than twice normal size, and pushes around a truck like a battering ram. Later his giant head is shown emerging next to a ferry.

When asked by the former Goliath (newcomer Laurence Fishburne) “how big he got,” Ant-Man boasts “65 feet.” Apparently, Goliath only got to 21 feet.

The rest of the footage mentioned Pym’s discovery of the Quantum Realm, which may play an important part in Marvel’s Phase 4 films. And check out the first trailer below ahead of the film’s July release:

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Lawrence Yee
Lawrence is Editor in Chief of FANDOM. He grew up loving X-Men, Transformers, and Japanese-style role playing games like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. First-person shooters make him incredibly nauseous.