Reed himself noted that "Scott almost did call Hope" but "the Russo brothers, along with their screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, felt that there was too much story riding on the backs of too many characters to do justice to Wasp". In 2016, Kevin Feige revealed that Lilly appearing as Wasp was in an original draft of the film Captain America: Civil War (2016) after receiving the Wasp costume at the end of Ant-Man, but her scenes were cut because "there were so many characters in Civil War that we didn't want to do her a disservice". Danielle Costa was responsible for visual effects stunts of the character.
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It's about damn time: We’re going to have a fully realized, very very complicated hero in the next movie who happens to be a woman." Reed would also push to ensure the Wasp received equal publicity and merchandise for the film. On including the Wasp in the film's title (the first MCU film to have a female character in the title), Reed called it "organic" for both characters, and noted the Wasp's final line in Ant-Man-'It's about damn time'-as "very much about her specific character and arc in that movie, but it is absolutely about a larger thing. In October 2015, after the release of Ant-Man, Marvel Studios announced a sequel, titled Ant-Man and the Wasp, with a scheduled release date of July 6, 2018, with Lilly confirmed to reprise the role. One of the important things for Reed when joining the film was emphasizing both Hope and Janet van Dyne more, given the Wasp being "a crucial part" of the Ant-Man comics.
Reed also offered contributions to the revised script, as did Lilly, who worked with Scott Lang-actor and co-screenwriter Paul Rudd, and contributed ideas to help flesh out her character, which received a fuller arc and more action sequences as a result. When Wright left the film later in the year and was replaced by Peyton Reed, Lilly was reluctant to take the role until she read the revised script and got a chance to meet with Reed. Įvangeline Lilly was originally cast as the character in 2014, when Edgar Wright was slated to direct Ant-Man. Whedon wanted Zooey Deschanel to play the role of Wasp. Joss Whedon, the writer and director of The Avengers, originally intended to have the Wasp appear in the film due to potential scheduling conflicts preventing Scarlett Johansson from appearing in the film as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow. Lilly at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con where it was announced that she would be portraying van Dyne She is noted for being the first superheroine to be a titular character in a MCU film, preceding Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and Shuri.
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Lilly also appears in the Disney+ animated series What If.? (2021) as an alternate version of the character. She first appeared in the 2015 film Ant-Man and later appeared in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). She is later trapped in the Quantum Realm alongside her family and works with them to defeat Kang the Conqueror. She later begins the Pym van Dyne Foundation, reunites with her boyfriend Scott Lang alongside becoming a step-mother to Cassie Lang.
When the three are restored to life, Van Dyne joins the Avengers in a battle against an alternate Thanos. After doing so, Van Dyne and her parents fall victim to the Blip. Portrayed as the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, she was a senior board member of her father's company, Pym Technologies, and later inherits the superhero identity of Wasp from her mother, using a suit containing shrinking technology to shrink to the size of an insect and also fly with insect-themed wings.Īfter rekindling her relationship with her father, Van Dyne and Pym work together to bring back Van Dyne's mother who was previously trapped in the Quantum Realm. Hope van Dyne ( née Pym) is a fictional character portrayed by Evangeline Lilly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film franchise, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character Hope Pym.
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