Michelle Pfeiffer Joins 'Ant-Man & The Wasp'; First Official Look

Breaking: Michelle Pfeiffer will play Janet VanDyne In Marvel’s “Ant-Man & The Wasp.” The news was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con panel in Hall H during the “Ant-Man And The Wasp” sizzle reel, hosted by Paul Rudd and Michael Pena. Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast too. He will play a biochemist named Dr. Bill Foster AKA Black Goliath who can change size.

Entertainment Weekly, taking insanely assiduous notes, reveals more about three new characters.

Hannah John-Kamen plays the Ghost, “sometimes depicted as more of an anti-hero than a villain.”

Walton Goggins is playing Sonny Burch, a character who associated with Iron Man villain Obadiah Stane (who was played by Jeff Bridges)

Randall Park will play agent Jimmy Woo, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent

Peyton Reed will again direct. Written by Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari and Paul Rudd, the film stars Rudd as Ant-Man, Evangeline Lilly as The Wasp, plus Michael Peña, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Michael Douglas and the aforementioned new cast members. “Ant-Man & The Wasp” is due in theaters July 6, 2018.

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8/28/2017 Update: first official image from “Ant-Man And The Wasp.”

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