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Much anticipated upcoming movie ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ writer has said that the movie’s script has been inspired by 1990s Robin Williams and Steve Martin movies.
While speaking at the world premiere of the new Marvel movie, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ writer Jeff Loveness said that he looked to ‘underdog dad’ movies when writing Ant-Man’s story arc. “There’s a lot of spinning plates. There’s a lot of MCU stuff going on,” Loveness said. “But you really just got to focus on this, this is a story from the beginning about a dad and his daughter.”
“So I took a lot of inspiration from like ’90s Robin Williams movies or ’90s Steve Martin movies. The throwback dad protagonist from ‘Father of the Bride’ or ‘Jumanji,'” he said. Loveness continued, “And I realized those are some of the favorite heroes I had in movies growing up. Like, Robin Williams in ‘Hook,’ or something like that. And so, take Paul Rudd’s pure likability and to couple that with like an underdog dad hero energy, that became the throughline of the movie.”
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The latest sequel follows the two heroes Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and the Wasp (Evangeline Lily) as they journey into the Quantum Realm and confront a major multiversal supervillain (played by Jonathan Majors), it is also a family story exploring the time both of the heroes have lost with their respective families.
Directed by Peyton Reed and produced by Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania also stars Jonathan Majors as Kang, David Dastmalchian as Veb, Katy O’Brian as Jentorra, William Jackson Harper as Quaz and Bill Murray as Lord Krylar. The sci-fi adventure opens in theaters on February 17, 2023.