Ant-Man And The Wasp Pitch Meeting

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**Ant-Man And The Wasp Pitch Meeting** is the forty-seventh episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant.

## Description

Ant-Man and the Wasp is Marvel's first film to come out after the insanity that was Avengers: Infinity War just a few months ago. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Pena and Michael Douglas provide us with some pretty hilarious moments and action scenes in this sequel to 2015's Ant-Man… just don't think about it too much. The quantum realm is the latest plot tool that Marvel is throwing our way after the magical Vibranium in Black Panther and the millions of timelines in Infinity War. How did this movie come to be exactly? Step inside the pitch meeting that started it all. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Notes

* The video begins with an ad for The Richest before the pitch meeting proper.

**Producer Guy:** So you have an *Ant-Man* sequel script for me?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do.

**Producer Guy:** It must have been hard to find a good way to follow up the events of *Infinity War*.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually, super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Oh really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I'm just not gonna do it. This is gonna take place before.

**Producer Guy:** Probably a good idea.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah.

**Producer Guy:** So what's the movie about?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Scott is on house arrest because of what he did in *Civil War*, and he only has a couple days left on his sentence.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But Hope's mom Janet is gonna slide into his quantum DMs.

**Producer Guy:** What?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, she's been stuck in the Quantum Realm for like thirty years and her and Scott have something called a quantum entanglement.

**Producer Guy:** What's that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** An excuse to get Scott involved in the story.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So Hope and Hank are gonna kind of kidnap Scott 'cause they need his help with this quantum tunnel thing they're building to go save Janet.

**Producer Guy:** Seems pretty straightforward. Are there any antagonists?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah! A bunch!

**Producer Guy:** Oh really? A bunch?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeahyeahyeah! Well first there's the FBI and they're kind of suspicious that Scott is violating his house arrest.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anytime they think he is, they're gonna have to rush over there and Scott's gonna have to try to get there before them.

**Producer Guy:** Why don't the FBI have someone stationed outside the house so they can just step in whenever they need to?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Because my way's funnier.

**Producer Guy:** Fair enough.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then there's a bad guy named Sonny Burch.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, what's his deal?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well he wants to steal Hank's shrunken lab so he can sell it to a buyer for a billion dollars.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, a mysterious billionaire that wants to buy Pym technology. That's a great setup.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, pretty cool, right?

**Producer Guy:** So what's the big reveal? Who does the buyer end up being?

**Screenwriter Guy:** We're never gonna find out.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, okay then.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah.

**Producer Guy:** So how does Sonny Burch find out about Hank's lab?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Hope needs to buy *a thing* for the quantum tunnel, so she goes to see him.

**Producer Guy:** What does that thing do?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It brings him into the movie.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha. And why is he in the story anyway?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well 'cause I want the heroes to have car chases and fight scenes, but if they have those with the FBI then there'd have to be consequences.

**Producer Guy:** So Sonny Burch doesn't really affect the story in any meaningful way?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Other than leading a group of punching bags, no not really.

**Producer Guy:** And that's it for the antagonists?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, I didn't even get to the main antagonist yet.

**Producer Guy:** Oh really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeahyeahyeah!

**Producer Guy:** Kind of a lot of antagonists.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeahyeahyeah!

**Producer Guy:** So who's the main one?

**Screenwriter Guy:** She's this character named Ghost.

**Producer Guy:** What's her deal?

**Screenwriter Guy:** When she was a kid she was exposed to quantum energy and now she can phase through things and she used to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin.

**Producer Guy:** Wait, she's been around for years and was recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D.?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right.

**Producer Guy:** Feels like that raises a lot of questions about why we haven't seen her before in the MCU.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Whoops.

**Producer Guy:** Whoopsie.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway, she needs to use Janet's lifeforce to save her own life or something.

**Producer Guy:** How does that work?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exposition.

**Producer Guy:** Did you just say the word 'exposition'?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, yeah, sorry. I mean, because of very complicated reasons relating to the Quantum Realm.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So yeah, the characters are gonna go through a whole lot of complicated mumbo jumbo about the Quantum Realm without actually saying anything about it.

**Producer Guy:** Sounds pretty vague.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, super vague! That way I could do anything I wanted plotwise and blame it all on the mysterious Quantum Realm.

**Producer Guy:** I guess that's pretty smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Thank you.

**Producer Guy:** So what actually happens in the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well the characters are gonna steal this shrunken lab from each other over and over again and once in a while they're gonna stop to shout exposition at each other.

**Producer Guy:** Very cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And at the end, Hank is gonna go into the Quantum Realm to save Janet.

**Producer Guy:** So what's she been up to this whole time?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Reapplying mascara and tracking down a robe, apparently.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and she's older now so she has white hair.

**Producer Guy:** I thought we said that time and reality works different in the Quantum Realm.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, well like I said, the Quantum Realm works in mysterious ways, so.

**Producer Guy:** But how did she survive down there? Like what did she eat?

**Screenwriter Guy:** She fed on quantum energy or something, I don't know.

**Producer Guy:** Where did she poop?

**Screenwriter Guy:** In a mysterious, uh, qu- quantum toilet.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, mysterious toilets are tight! But how did the Quantum Realm help-

**Screenwriter Guy:** Please stop asking me questions about the Quantum Realm.

**Producer Guy:** Well okay then.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Thanks.

**Producer Guy:** So is it gonna be hard for Ghost to survive now that Janet's back?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually, super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** How so?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Janet is gonna make Ghost feel better by using her fingers.

**Producer Guy:** *[surprised]* Oh!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Not like that.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, so Janet spent so much time in the Quantum Realm that she evolved and she has powers now.

**Producer Guy:** What kinda powers?

**Screenwriter Guy:** The kind that fix this one problem and are never spoken about again.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, that is convenient.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah. So then everything kinda works out for everyone and everyone's happy.

**Producer Guy:** Well you know after *Infinity War* it's actually gonna be nice to have a feel-good Marvel movie that-

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then Hope and Hank and Janet are gonna die and Scott's gonna get caught in the Quantum Realm!

**Producer Guy:** Oh, my god!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, it's gonna be pretty messed up but that's Thanos for ya.

**Producer Guy:** So wait, the events of the movie were happening at the same time as *Infinity War*?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well this happens in a post-credits scene and they built a smaller tunnel, so some time has passed.

**Producer Guy:** So Ant-Man wasn't on house arrest during Infinity War like we said he was.

**Screenwriter Guy:** I don't know.

**Producer Guy:** Fair enough. Timelines are complicated.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So whaddya think?

**Producer Guy:** Well honestly because Ant-Man wasn't in *Infinity War*, I think people're just gonna be super excited to check in with him.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right, that's true.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, this could end up being one of our biggest movies of Phase 3.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Fingers crossed.

*[cut to headline: **Ant-Man & The Wasp Projected To Have Lowest MCU Phase 3 Opening**]*