Boss Kevin Feige has singled out the actress’s performance as Janet Van Dyne as one of many reasons to get very excited about the sequel, due later this year.
“I don’t want to say too much, but I will say that’s she’s every bit as iconic and amazing in this part as you would imagine,” he told Vulture.
“People ask sometimes about movie stars and star power and who’s the most exciting person to be around, and the truth is that once you get to know them as people, they don’t feel like movie stars — everybody is just a super-impressive human.
“But in a room full of movie stars, Michelle Pfeiffer rises to the top.”
Referring to the recent Marvel photo of the entire studio’s ensemble cast, he added: “You can tell how big Michelle is because all the other movie stars are going, ‘Is that Michelle Pfeiffer over there?”
Ant-Man and the Wasp is the follow-up to 2015’s Ant-Man, and stars Paul Rudd as the titular hero – aka Scott Lang.
Evangeline Lilly plays Hope van Dyne – Janet’s daughter – and the current Wasp.
Pfeiffer was actually Lilly’s pick for the role back when the first movie came out.
“I think that [Hope’s mother] could be [alive] and that it could be a great, I mean, I would love to see a storyline where Hope somehow tries to find her mom or meets her or something happens where there’s some amazing reunion,” she told Cinemablend.
“I think that would be super cool, and I have my dream casting already, for my mom. It’s got to be Michelle Pfeiffer.”
Ant-Man and the Wasp is out on July 6.