Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Release Date Announced Marvel Studios has officially given Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp's Peyton Reed returns to direct the film from a script written by Jeff Loveness. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly return in the title roles, along with Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer playing the originators of those superhero personas. Kathryn Newton takes over as Cassie Lang, Scott Lang's daughter, and the film sees Jonathan Majors debut in the role of time-traveling Marvel villain Kang the Conqueror. Early shooting for "I find myself pushing against this tough badass chick thing," Lilly explained. "Which is really interesting because at the beginning of my career I was pushing that so hard. I was like Kate [from