Ant-Man 3, Guardians Vol. 3, Loki 2, Indiana Jones 5 and other Disney trailers revealed in regional showcase
From Ant-Man and Loki to Indiana Jones and Snow White, Disney just revealed a bunch of trailers. But there’s a catch.
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Marvel has a new Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer but there’s a catch – it’s not yet online for the hordes of enthusiastic fans.
Screened at Disney’s Asia-Pacific Content Showcase, only those in the room have so far glimpsed what shenanigans Marvel Studios’ uber villain Kang the Conqueror really has in store for our costumed heroes.
But news.com.au can reveal the details of what that trailer has in store – along with others for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Loki season two, as well as teasers for a raft of upcoming Disney titles – before it’s widely available.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer
In the first trailer that was released a month ago, Kang poses a question to Scott Lang, “So what’s it going to be, Ant-Man?” In the soon-to-be-unveiled second clip, Scott gives his answer.
It probably wouldn’t be surprising to know that Scott isn’t keen on Kang’s proposition – we’re assuming that it’s nefarious, given he’s nefarious. “Do we have a deal,” Kang asks, to which Scott replies, “I don’t think we do”. Kang is not pleased and pings Scott up against a wall.
But before we get to that point, the trailer opens with Scott living his glowed-up day-to-day life. He’s released his memoirs and is basking in the attention from his heroics – book readings, walking the red carpet at gala events, being named employee of the month at Baskin Robbins.
And there’s a cute moment where he’s having lunch with Randall Park’s FBI agent extraordinaire, Jimmy Woo. Scott uses his card trick steals to liberate Jimmy’s credit card when the bill comes.
Cassie then tells her dad that she’s been up to “science” in his five-year absence thanks to Thano’s snap. The trailer then cuts to a lot of the footage we’ve already seen from the first trailer, including Janet’s fear that they had sent a signal to the quantum realm, and everyone being sucked in.
There’s a glimpse of Cassie being held in captivity.
What’s really interesting then is that extended interaction between Scott and Kang, in which a scarred Kang calls Scott a “man who’s lost a lot of time”, and then proposing that deal.
This Kang, who bears scars on his face not seen on the variant we met in Loki, seems at first confused to see Scott and says, “I’ve killed you before” and then adding, “they all blend together after a while”.
Those two lines suggest that this Kang, let’s call him Kang Prime, has been around a long time and he’s met various members of the Avengers across many different multiverses.
The Kang variant in Loki had said of Kang the Conqueror, which we’re assuming to be Kang Prime, “Eons ago, before the TVA, a variant of myself lived on Earth in the 31st century. He was a scientist, and he discovered that there were universes stacked on top of his own. At the same time, other versions of were learning the same thing.”
The introduction of Kang Prime in Quantumania is a big deal for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s phases five and six, which will culminate with the two-part Avengers epics The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars. Kang will be to phases four, five and six as Thanos was to phases one, two and three.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the first movie of phase five and is due for release in February, 2023.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trailer
The trailer shown at Disney’s APAC Content Showcase appears to be the same as that which was revealed at Comic-Con in July, and which still hasn’t been released publicly, suggesting that its online debut is imminent.
If you missed the details in July, a quick rundown:
The Guardians crew are in a face-off with the Ravagers when a frantic Quill reminds the hostile group of their past alliance. Before chaos and fisticuffs can descend, Nebula jumps in and says that the Guardians have an appointment with their leader, Gamora. Which was a shock to Quill.
Flashing back to Quill’s memories of his time with the Gamora killed by Thanos in exchange for the soul stone, Quill is still trying to convince this version of Gamora of their connection.
She’s not buying it, responding “That person isn’t me” to his “You were everything to me”.
Later in the trailer, Quill again pleads with Gamora – “If you open up to it, there’s a possibility”. Her response is a tough burn, “I don’t think so, Quinn.” His humiliation is escalated when Nebula reveals this whole conversation is happening on an open channel and they can all hear him being rejected.
There are shots alluding to a story strand involving the history of how Rocket came to be a gun-toting genetically enhanced anthropomorphic raccoon, including a glimpse of a baby Rocket. If you thought Baby Groot was cute, you haven’t yet seen cute.
And finally, there’s a brief first look at the gold-sheened Adam Warlock, played by Will Poulter.
There are suggestions Vol. 3 will be the last Guardians adventure, at least in its current iteration. In the trailer, there is a shop sign that’s the same shape and look as the Guardians logo, so perhaps some if not all of the team are hanging their space-faring boots up.
The film is also expected to be director and writer James Gunn’s last MCU project. The filmmaker has set up shop at the rival DC movies division.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is due for release in May, 2023.
Loki season two trailer
There’s no word yet on when the Loki season two trailer will drop but when it does, fans will froth over what’s in store in the next instalment.
The short clip, which was first seen at D23 and still hasn’t made its way online, opens with Tom Hiddleston’s Loki apprehensively approaching someone, likely to be another variant of himself, but when we get the point-of-view shot of the other Loki looking back, there’s no one there.
As with everything in Loki, you never quite know what to make of anything. That’s backed up by Loki’s voiceover, “This is going to sound strange but I’m being pulled through time, and I’ve seen the terror of all things”.
Another scene with Loki and Owen Wilson’s Mobius sees the trickster god taking a sledgehammer to a mosaic in the Time Variance Authority, smashing through the wall to reveal what’s hidden beneath, a portrait of Kang.
The doom and gloom continues, as Loki intones, “There’s nothing that stands between this world and utter destruction” and “war is on the way”.
But there’s plenty of fun and almost frivolity as well, with scenes involving triple Lokis in frilly shirts and a shot of Ke Huy Quan literally dropping into shot on a harness.
Quan’s casting is a bonus for the second season of Loki after the former child star of The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom returned to acting this year in the acclaimed Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The clip ends with Loki bemoaning to Mobius how he had been cast as the bad guy by Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, the rest of the Avengers, his whole family including his father, as well as Miss Minutes and even Mobius.
Loki season two is due for release in mid-2023.
Indiana Jones 5 trailer
The still as-yet-untitled fifth Indiana Jones movie has a trailer – but you don’t get to see it yet.
But rest assured, there’s a lot swashbuckling adventuring, exactly as you would expect from Indy.
Featuring a lot of fast edits, Indy is back on the saddle – literally, at one point he gallops on a horse through some subway tunnels – recruited out of academic drudgery by John Rhys-Davies’ Sallah.
“Those days have come and gone,” Indy says. “Maybe, maybe not,” Sallah replies.
There are glimpses of Phoebe Waller-Bridge as well as Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook in their Nazi costumes.
A lot is going on but the highlight is probably the final scene, where Indy faces off with a room of villains and he yields his whip, cracking it several times, seemingly to intimidate everyone only for it to backfire when the rest of them brandishes guns. Never bring a whip to a gunfight.
Indiana Jones 5 is due for release in June 2023.
The Haunted Mansion trailer
Given the billions of dollars Disney has squeezed out of Pirates of the Caribbean, and then later turned The Jungle Cruise from a ride to a movie, it was inevitable it would take another stab at The Haunted Mansion.
Previously adapted (is adapted even the right word when you turn a theme park ride into a movie?) into a widely panned 2003 movie starring Eddie Murphy, the 2023 version has a much more promising foundation.
Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People), the movie is centred on a single mum who moves into a mysterious mansion with a dark past, who ends up hiring a paranormal expert and a psychic to deal with the many paranormal goings-on.
The trailer, not yet released publicly, sets the goofy and spooky vibe of a family friendly scarefest.
It features Gabbie looking over the plans of the house and discovering a secret room accessed only through hidden door. There’s some faffing around with Owen Wilson breaking a wall sconce before Lakeith Stanfield finds the real way in.
It’s a seance room – no one needs one of these – a round space with loads of candles and stone fittings. The rest of the trailer, with a voice over from Danny DeVito, features quick edits of hauntings and shenanigans, and glimpses of some notable spectres or kooks including Dan Levy and Winona Ryder.
The Haunted Mansion is due for release in August, 2023.
Snow White teaser
The live-action Snow White is still a while away – in 2024 – but the Content Showcase attendees were teased with a first look at the remake of Disney’s first full length feature.
West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler made her debut as Snow White, complete with her iconic blue, yellow and white costume while Gal Gadot was an imposing screen presence as the Evil Queen, even asking her mirror that most famous of all vanity queries.
There are quick shots of Snow standing inside the dwarfs’ home and the short clip ends with a close-up of Snow’s limp arm on the ground, letting go of the poisonous apple.
Mufasa teaser
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins has been busy at work on The Lion King prequel Mufasa, an exploration of the king of Pride Rock before his tragic end. Who is this father before we met him at the moment of Simba’s death?
Apparently, according to the teaser, he was “a lion born without a drop of mobility” but one who will “change lives forever”. The short clip featured a lion cub by himself in a barren landscape before being overwhelmed by a flooding event. He survives, clinging on to a floating log.
But that’s about all you see because it then cuts to Timon and Puumba, with Timon complaining that he’s not in the story. Puumba reminds him that they’re not every story and Timon responds with “I don’t feel seen!”.
Mufasa is due for release in 2024.
Peter Pan and Wendy trailer
Speaking of acclaimed auteur filmmakers, David Lowery’s Peter Pan and Wendy will be released in mid-2023 and the trailer, first glimpsed at D23, features a magical and whimsical but ironically more grounded version of the story.
There are the things you expect to see in any telling of the Peter Pan story, but Wendy (Ever Anderson, daughter of Milla Jovovich) is as much a star as Pan is this iteration.
There are shots of Wendy washing up ashore, Wendy and the Darlings jumping off the clock tower, being led by Peter and then soaring to Neverland.
And, of course, a look at Jude Law’s Captain Hook, a slightly seedy, slightly snivelling villain.
Lowery had previously directed the well-received Disney live action version of Pete’s Dragon.
The writer travelled to Singapore as a guest of Disney
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