Ant-Man and the Wasp, the sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, is the 20th release in a decade from the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of comic book movies, and the first to feature a woman in the title.

“We always knew that the next one was going to be Ant-Man and the Wasp,” Kevin Feige, the president of Disney-owned Marvel Studios, told AFP at a global press day for the movie in Pasadena, Southern California yesterday.

“It’s finally time to see her suit up and be the hero that she said earlier she wanted to be.”

The 2015 movie featured Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne as a wannabe superhero and she returns here leaner, meaner and ready to step up on an equal footing with Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man.

Lilly told AFP the plan was to introduce the Wasp’s origin story in Marvel’s 2016 release Captain America: Civil War along with Ant-Man and the other Avengers.

“I got a call saying, ‘We’ve decided not to put you in Civil War’ and there was this moment, I could tell, where the feeling in the room was like, ‘I’m sorry – don’t be offended,’” she said.

“I was like, ‘Are they going to give me a movie? Is that what they’re saying?’ And they said, ‘We really want to dedicate a film to introducing this female superhero and we don’t want her just to be a side note.”

Crazy fun

The surprise of double-billing came later when Marvel sent her a screen capture with the Wasp in the title.

The premise behind Ant-Man is refreshingly simple: Scott Lang, a petty criminal with a lot of heart, can get very big or quantum-level small via a suit that manipulates his subatomic particles.

Ant-Man and the Wasp – directed, like the first movie, by Peyton Reed – sees Lang languishing under house arrest in San Francisco after being caught as his superhero alter-ego fighting some of the other Avengers in Civil War.

As he struggles to rebalance his home life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he’s confronted by Van Dyne and her father, the brilliant quantum physicist Hank Pym, with an urgent new mission.

The original was admired by critics but is one of the least successful MCU releases at box offices worldwide.

That actually means very little when the competition is other Marvel movies – it still went on to a global gross of more than US$500 million.

“Ant-Man and the Wasp” is expected to open domestically around US$75 million over the weekend of July 6 – a considerable improvement on the US$57 million the first film took.

The early social media reaction from preview screenings has been almost universally glowing.

“Ant-Man and The Wasp is crazy fun. Very self-contained, but brimming with energy, and full of cool and creative surprises,” tweeted CinemaBlend critic Eric Eisenberg.

“Super funny, and the entire cast is wonderful. I had a blast!”

Eye-popping

Rudd (Anchorman, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Lilly (The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, Lost) are joined by an illustrious support cast, including Oscar-winner Michael Douglas and nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and Laurence Fishburne.

Michael Pena (The Martian, Chips) returns to provide much of the comic relief alongside Walton Goggins (Vice Principals) and Bobby Cannavale (I, Tonya).

It’s not just the good guys (and gals) who are inclusive; Ghost, played by British actress Hannah John-Kamen, follows Cate Blanchett (Thor Ragarnok) as a rare front-and-center supervillain.

“I am the second female villain in the Marvel Universe,” John-Kamen told AFP on the sidelines of the news conference.

“With Ghost, it’s a male character in the comics and it’s designed male, but to be the first person to take it off the page and actually give her life, it was an honor.”

The movie – an eye-popping blend of intricate fight sequences, stunning chases,and laugh-out-loud family-friendly comedy – was co-written by Rudd.

As with many Marvel movies, the bulk of filming took place in and around Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Georgia.

“I try to think of the film as a whole, but I will say this: this has been a collaborative effort more than anything I’ve ever worked on,” the typically self-effacing Rudd said.

“To think I wrote it would be a gross overstatement.”

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Ranbir Kapoor who is playing the role of Sanjay Dutt can be seen donning different avatars paying true justice to the different stages of Sanjay Dutt’s unbelievable life.

While many are already offering their predictions for “Sanju” as a sure blockbuster there are some who may not be too mesmerized by Ranbir’s excellent acting skills.

Recently Salman Khan stated that no one apart from Sanjay Dutt himself could have played the past decade of his life and do it justice.

Ranbir, on the other hand, responded to the same question saying said that a person has never played himself in his own biopic till date. He feels that it reduces the effect of the character.

Though the actor knows he will be compared to the real Dutt, he believes he has tried his best to justice to the role. He further added that the audience should feel they are watching an artist playing the character of Baba, whether in his 40s or youth. That said, Ranbir agreed that he cannot be a second Sanjay Dutt.

Dia Mirza who is also part of the cast said that Sanjay is quite shy about this Biopic I am not sure if he even wants to have a cameo in the film. It would be awkward to see Sanjay Dutt featured as himself in his own biopic, said the actress.

She added that the beauty and charm of witnessing one’s life through another person’s performance are what makes it so refreshing.

‘Sanju’ Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala, Dia Mirza, Anushka Sharma, Karishma Tanna and Vicky Kaushal is set to release on June 29^th worldwide.

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