Peyton Reed on Bill Foster's Role in Ant-Man and the Wasp

There are other size-changing characters in the Marvel universe, and Ant-Man and the Wasp will be bringing us Bill Foster in the form of Laurence Fishburne. Foster actually has a long history with Pym, and director Peyton Reed gives us a background on where he is in Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Talking to ScreenRant, Reed explains:

"Bill's a former colleague who really was involved early on with Pym in a thing called Project Goliath and their lives have taken these kind of divergent paths and when we find Bill Foster in this movie, he is teaching quantum physics at Berkeley. I also liked the idea of grounding -- because the movie takes place in San Francisco and it's not just for stunts and scenery. Like, Berkeley, that's an important thing in the movie. Is that one guy is gone -- they were both involved with S.H.I.E.L.D at some point, but one guy's sort of stepped away and taken a more academic approach."

It's interesting that they would bring in a classic character like Bill Foster to the movies, but I doubt that we'll be seeing him go giant in the movie at all. At best, I think we'll see a flashback of Foster in his old days with Pym, and we would see him turn giant inside a lab.

The stakes are at an all-time high after Avengers: Infinity War, but it looks like Ant-Man and the Wasp will be another smaller, self-contained story—just like the first movie.

Catch Ant-Man and the Wasp in theaters July 5.

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