New ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA trailer dropped last night, marking maybe the _only_ interesting thing that happened during the College Football Playoffs for non-Georgia (I didn't watch the game, but there was also a new John Williams' composed fanfare that he wrote for the game)
This is notable for two inter-connected things:
1. we are apparently getting a legit, comic-accurate looking MODOK! Given the footage we saw in Hall H last July, I couldn't tell if MCU retooled MODOK to be a robotic thing, or something different, but there is one show in the trailer where we see MODOK in all of his giant-faced glory!
2. MODOK's face sure looks A LOT like actor Corey Stoll, who played Darren Cross/Yellowjacket in ANT-MAN. You may remember he shrunk into the Quantum Realm, though was never definitively killed; seems as though Marvel is bringing him back as the MCU MODOK! You'll recall Marvel Studios did something similar with Red Skull, where he was dispatched by Cap while they were fighting over the Cosmic Cube Tesseract/Space Stone, maybe thought gone-for-good by fans, only to return as the custodian of the Soul Stone. It would seem Marvel is doing something similar here, which IMO is a fun twist on things.
I remember waaaaay back when Marvel, during the Super Bowl, dropped a trailer for CIVIL WAR and they teased the scene of Hawkeye firing an arrow w/Ant-Man hanging on the tip. I naively thought we were in peak comic book mode, but WOW does Marvel Studios continue to up the ante as far as totally embracing their comic book weird/silliness!! Excited for this fil, and LOVE the tag of "witness the beginning of a new Dynasty" with is a fun wink to the Kang Dynasty comic and upcoming Avengers blockbuster.
