ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA Star Evangeline Lilly Teases "Phenomenal" Jeff Loveness Screenplay

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is set to bring another Kang the Conqueror Variant into the MCU, and that alone points to this threequel being a much bigger deal than its predecessors.

During a recent interview with Collider, star Evangeline Lilly admitted she couldn't say anything about the movie beyond the fact that shooting is currently taking place. The actress did, however, heap plenty of praise on Jeff Loveness' (Rick and Morty) screenplay for the movie. 

"I was so stoked on the script. Jeff Loveness is our new writer for the film. And we've never worked with him before. I think he is phenomenal," Lilly said. "I think he's one of the best writers we've ever had. I think he's got an incredible mastery of voice. So on the page, I could hear all the characters, and I knew that he'd really kind of harnessed each person's unique personality."

"I just think that it's going to be really special," she continued. "I think it's going to be really good. I actually think it has the chance to be the best one we've done yet."

Lilly has also been keeping up to date with Loki (no great surprise when she'll be working alongside Kang actor Jonathan Majors), and the themes of the series clearly impressed her. 

"The science geek in me loves that element of how smart they are and how they tackle such enormous topics that most kind of fluff popcorn movies are not going to tackle," the actress recalled. "They tackled chaos theory. That's really brave and really bold and really cool."

We still don't know which Kang Variant we'll meet in this movie, though Nathaniel Richards (the scientist from the 31st Century who mastered interdimensional travel) is arguably the most likely. That would give Marvel Studios the chance to explore his origin story before the Conqueror shows up.

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is set to be released on February 17, 2023.