<P> Reed was inspired by the films After Hours, Midnight Run and What's Up, Doc? for the look and feel of Ant - Man and the Wasp . While the first film was more of a heist film, Reed described this as part action film, part romantic comedy, and wanted this one "to be a little more of like an Elmore Leonard vibe where we have villains, but we also have antagonists, and we have these roadblocks to our heroes getting to where they need to be, and getting what they need for this mission ." Regarding the opportunity for character development, Reed used the actions of Lang in Civil War to fuel potential tension between him, Pym, and Van Dyne since Pym is "very clear in the first movie about how he feels about Stark and how he feels about The Avengers and being very protective of this technology that he has ." </P> <P> The Russo brothers, directors of Avengers: Infinity War and its untitled sequel, which were filming while Ant - Man and the Wasp was preparing to film, were in constant discussion with Reed in order to ensure story elements would line up between the films . Joe Russo added that Ant - Man and the Wasp would have "some (plot) elements that stitch in" closely with Avengers: Infinity War, more so than some of the other films leading up to the Avengers films . Reed knew Ant - Man and the Wasp would be "a fairly stand - alone movie but...could not ignore the events of Infinity War", with the biggest connection occurring in the film's mid-credit scene . Since the events of Ant - Man and the Wasp occur over 48 hours, the timeline in relation to Infinity War was "left purposefully ambiguous" with Reed noting there had been discussions of placing "little Easter eggs along the way, to start to reveal to the audience where the movie takes place in the timeline, (but t) hat felt not very fun to us and kind of obvious ." Reed also like the fact the film ends with closure and on a positive note "and then to BANG--give the audience a gut punch right after the main credits", with the sequence showing Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, and Hope van Dyne fading away due to the events of Avengers: Infinity War . The film also has a post-credit scene that shows the ant who doubled for Lang while under house arrest performing a drum solo . </P> <P> Principal photography began on August 1, 2017, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, under the working title Cherry Blue; Dante Spinotti served as director of photography, shooting on Arri Alexa 65 cameras, with some sequences being shot with a Frazier lens . At the start of filming, Marvel revealed that Bobby Cannavale and Abby Ryder Fortson would also reprise their roles from the first film, respectively as Paxton and Cassie . They also announced that the writing team of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers had contributed to the screenplay . </P> <P> Filming also took place in Metro Atlanta, with filming locations including the Atlanta International School, the Midtown and Buckhead districts of Atlanta, and the Samuel M. Inman Middle School in the city's Virginia - Highland neighborhood; as well as Emory University and the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia . Additional filming took place in San Francisco in September 2017, in Savannah, Georgia in late October, and in Hawaii . Production wrapped on November 19, 2017 . </P>

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