Peyton Reed Talks Inspiration Behind The Quantum Realm In ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been around for about a week and if you’ve seen it, you know that the Quantum Realm is like nothing we’ve ever seen before in the MCU. While we’ve explored space, and different worlds, and seen a glimpse of the Quantum Realm, we never walked along it. We never got to breathe it in. This film, the third Ant-Man movie; does just that. So, what inspired the look?

In our review of the third Ant-Man film, we likened it to a Star Wars film. Luckily, we don’t have to guess where the inspiration for the movie came from. During a press junket with many of the stars of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, director Peyton Reed opened up about his inspiration for the Quantum Realm:

A number of things. We looked at everything from electron microscope photography to things like heavy metal magazine in the 70s and 80s, and we wanted to bring in all these elements like this. We wanted to bring in all these elements like this. There’s a little sword and sorcery element, and then there’s a real, like, you know, Mobius element to it. We just wanted to assemble a team of artists and say we are creating the Quantum Realm. You know, none of the other Marvel movies have really dealt with it, and want to create this very vivid world that has its own internal history and internal logic and, you know, who are the creatures there and who are the people there, and how do you travel? What are the laws of physics? All these things needed to be figured out. So, Will Htay, our production designer, we assembled this insane group of visual artists.

Peyton continued:

We said just bring some of your, you know, most fantastic ideas to the table and let’s figure out what it can be. Because we want to take these characters that the audience has come to know, and send them on this journey and traverse these very strange lands and just have fun with it. It was a part of the MCU that we were free to create on our own, and it was one of the most exciting things about it.

During the press junket, Kevin Feige had also revealed that it had taken three and a half years for the concept of the Quantum Realm to manifest. Feige had akin it to the Wizard of Oz.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania featured a beautiful landscape for the characters to traverse and hopefully, it will not be the last time we see the MCU heroes explore the subspace.

What did you think of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

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