Peyton Reed on Directing The Mandalorian and Using Volume Technology on Ant-Man 3
72Award-winning director Peyton Reed is about to show the fruits of his jump into the Quantum Realm with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania releasing next week. The film will see Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) travel to a world they've never known to face off against Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) in what Rudd has teased will be a very uneven bout. Before he returned to directing Marvel's tiniest hero, however, Reed joined the team of The Mandalorian to direct two episodes in Season 2. During an interview for Quantumania, Collider's own Steve Weintraub asked Reed about the experience of directing the Star Wars show and utilizing the Volume technology he would come to employ with Marvel.
Reed's initial interest in The Mandalorian was in part because of the state-of-the-art technology used in the production. "I had gone down to visit [Jon] Favreau on the set of Season 1 Mandalorian because everyone was talking about the Volume technology," he said. The Volume is Industrial Light and Magic's inventive 360-degree sound stage that first came into play with Season 1 of the series, and uses seamless LED screens to digitally alter the background in real-time while filming through Stagecraft. Reed's love for the show extended beyond the high-tech production, however. "I love Star Wars and I love Favreau, so when Season 2 came about Jon called and said, 'Would you like to come down and do an episode?' I was like, “Yeah, absolutely.” It was the second episode of Season 2 that I originally signed on for, and Jon had written a rough script, and then I fleshed the script out, and we worked on it together."
"The Passenger," Reed's episode, follows the titular Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal/Brendan Wayne) on his hunt for information on other Mandalorians with the help of a passenger, known only as Frog Lady, who needs transport to Trask. Their trip doesn't go as planned, however, and they end up under attack by the spider-like Krykna in the process. Reed explained they were thrilled enough to ask him back for the finale and, once he heard their plans, it was an offer he could refuse. He added:
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania kicks off Phase 5 of the MCU on February 17.
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