First Look! Evangeline Lily as The Wasp!

First Look! Evangeline Lily as The Wasp!

Superhero Sequel in Theatres July 2018

By Steven Carter

Evangelnie Lily has shared the first look at Hope van Dyne in costume as The Wasp!

“I am honoured to be on set today playing #TheWasp on what would be Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday,” she wrote along with the photo.

Marvel Studios have now begun production on Ant-Man & The Wasp, so here's a fun video from the set!

The superhero team up movie features returning cast members from 2015's Ant-Man. Paul Rudd stars in the lead role of Ant-Man / Scott Lang, we last saw his character taking Captain America's side in Civil War. Joining Lang in an expanded role is Hope Pym, Evangeline Lily reprises her role and will take on the mantle of The Wasp in the battle against a new enemy.

New cast additions include Michelle Pfifefer and Lawrence Fisburne. Pfieffer will portray Janet Van Dyne, the wife of Michael Douglas’s Hank Pym and mother of Hope Pym, she was also the original Wasp who was thought to have perished in the Quantum Realm. Fishburne will play Dr. Bill Foster, who is known in the comics as highly intelligent assistant to both Tony Stark and Hank Pym he would eventually take on Pym’s Giant Man abilities and become known as Goliath.

Peyton Reed will return to direct Ant-Man and the Wasp which is set for a release on July 6, 2018.

0:46:25 - Ant-Man & The Wasp - Casting Updates & more


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