You can imagine a pitch meeting for “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” — one sticking to references within the Marvel Cinematic Universe — going something like this: “It’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ meets ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ meets, you know, an ‘Ant-Man’ movie.”
“Quantumania” is, after all, an “Ant-Man” movie, following 2015’s “Ant-Man” and its 2018 sequel, “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
All of them star the ever-likable Paul Rudd, as Scott Lang/Ant-Man; “Lost” alum Evangeline Lilly, as Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp; and the great Michael Douglass, as Hank Pym, Hope’s father and once himself the Ant-Man.
