Cassie Lang Has 'Different Ideas About Justice' Than Her Father In Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania [Exclusive]
From the twins in "WandaVision" to Ironheart to America Chavez, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is pretty clearly setting up the Young Avengers. Aside from the fact that so many of us want to see a new generation of superheroes, the actors portraying the OG Avengers may very well want to move on to other projects.
Either way, it certainly appears that this is the plan. Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton) will likely join that anticipated group as Stature or Stinger, monikers she took up for her superhero persona in the comics. Though we learned about the daughter of Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in the first two "Ant-Man" films and "Avengers: Endgame," we're getting to know her now as a young adult in "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania."
Cassie Lang isn't exactly like her father, even though she's got a similar suit now (as you can see in the trailers). She feels very differently about what he should be doing in the wake of saving the world (with the help of a rat and a few other Avengers). Scott, as we can see in all the teases, has written a book about his adventures called "Look Out For The Little Guy" (which you will actually be able to buy this September). In the Disney+ series "Ms. Marvel," we learned that he was interviewed for the podcast "This Powered Life" in an episode entitled "Big Me Little Me: A Scott Lang Interview." He's doing book signings, hitting red carpets with Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), and enjoying his fame. Cassie doesn't entirely approve.
/Film's own Jeremy Mathai recently spoke with director Peyton Reed about Cassie Lang and her thoughts on what her super dad should be doing with his time.
'She has very different ideas about justice'
Peyton Reed commented on the differences between Cassie and Scott Lang, particularly after the five-year period of the blip when he was in the Quantum Realm. As he tells Jeremy Mathai:
"We inherited this great concept from the events of 'Endgame,' which is, Scott's lost another five years with Cassie. She's no longer a little girl. She's a young woman. She's 18 now. This movie sort of starts to tell the arc of her becoming a hero in her own right, but also the idea that she's not her dad. She has very different ideas about justice and what are the issues at hand, and the problems the world was facing. And she's quite critical of her dad. 'You're signing books, man. You should be out there doing this other stuff.' And that felt like a sort of real dynamic between a father and his young daughter."
Scott was sort of a reluctant superhero in the first place, and dining out on your fame after, you know, saving the world isn't exactly a surprise or anything terrible. Still, Cassie is young, and she wants to make a difference. It stands to reason that she'd want to see her father use his fame for something more important than a memoir.
"Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania" will hit theaters on February 17, 2023.