Ant-Man's Teaming Up With the Wasp in His New Sequel

The sequel will finally give Evangeline Lilly's Hope Van Dyne the spotlight she deserved in the first installment.
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Ant-Man is set to ride again in 2018—and he won't be doing it solo.

Marvel Studios announced this morning that Ant-Man and the Wasp will be released July 6, 2018, finally giving Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) the spotlight that she so richly deserved in the first movie. Hey, maybe the third movie can just be called Wasp (Featuring That Ant-Man Guy).

The news means that Marvel's release schedule for its Phase 3 movies is changing for a second time, with Black Panther moving to an earlier date—it was in the July 6 slot, but will now be released Feb. 16, which means that, yes, means Marvel is releasing it during Black History Month—and Captain Marvel being pushed out even later than before, to March 8, 2019. (Originally, it had been announced for the July 6 slot, before being pushed to Nov. 2 after news of Marvel's deal with Sony to relaunch Spider-Man broke. One day, Carol Danvers will get her onscreen spotlight.)

Marvel didn't reveal whether director Peyton Reed will return for the second Ant-Man movie, but given his work pulling the first together, we can only hope.