‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Timeline Revealed

Ant-Man was one of the most conspicuously missing Avengers during the events of Avengers: Infinity War, but it looks like all of those questions are about to get answered in the upcoming film, ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’. Collider had a chance to sit down with executive producer Stephen Broussard about where this movie fits in with to the MCU and here’s what he had to say:

“Ant-Man and the Wasp, the last time we saw Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) was in Civil War. He had gotten wrapped up in his adventure with Captain America, and where that film left off, you might recall he was put in a secret underwater prison and the film indicated that he had been broken out at the end. So our film would sort of pick up after that. And the sort of in-between story that we’re telling, the backstory that would assume when this movie starts would be that Scott, being a family man, well established in the first film, and sort of feeling like he got in over his head in this adventure during Civil War, basically said, ‘Not for me. No thanks, I don’t want to go on this adventure,’ went and sort of plead down a plea bargain out of this misunderstanding he got himself in. And as a part of the terms of that, was basically put under house arrest.

He has an ankle bracelet, he can’t leave his apartment, he’s living with Luis (Michael Peña) and he’s just trying to stay on the straight and narrow for these last few hours and then it’s all, he’ll be a free man, right? Free to live his life, to be a father to his daughter but of course, you wouldn’t have a movie if something didn’t come crashing down, and this adventure sort of coming barreling into it … And it just kind of feels like, it started so simple, but then it kind of just goes up and up and up and you have a character trying to race to put it all back in the box before they get caught kind of thing. The circumstances of that house arrest gave us a great framework for that.”

This still leaves the question of what Hank Pym and his daughter, Hope Van-Dyne have been up to, and why their whole laboratory can now be shrunk down to the size of carry-on luggage.

“And in fact that whole building, because Hank and Hope, part of their backstory in this is that they’re on the run as well. Like post-Sokovia Accords, someone knocked on their door and was like, ‘You’ve got to sign this contract, you’ve got to be under the Accords because you’re currently in violation of this thing we put in place in Captain America: Civil War.’ Hank Pym being Hank Pym, who never wanted Stark to have his technology said, ‘Thanks but no thanks,’ and sort of had to go underground a little bit.”

Now, check out this brand-new TV spot that teases everything that was just talked about above.