Marvel’s newest offering <i>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania </i>follows its microscopic heroes into the Quantum Realm for an adventure that crinkles and expands space and time. The film will be released in the UAE on Thursday and it's gearing up to be one of the most pivotal titles in Marvel’s multiverse saga. Here’s everything we know about <i>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.</i> <b>Warning: If you haven’t seen previous instalments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there may be spoilers below.</b> The film features a stellar cast, even by Marvel's standards. Many who starred in <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/film-review-ant-man-and-the-wasp-is-fun-but-we-still-have-marvel-fatigue-1.747248" target="_blank">previous <i>Ant-Man </i>films</a> will be reprising their roles, including Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man; Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp; Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne; and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym. New cast members include <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/home/for-rent-reese-witherspoon-s-seven-bedroom-house-in-big-little-lies-1.877230" target="_blank"><i>Big Little Lies</i></a><i> </i>actress Kathryn Newton who will portray Lang’s daughter Cassie; <i>The Good Place </i>actor William Jackson Harper will play Quaz, a telepath residing in the Quantum Realm; and Bill Murray will play Kylar, the governor of the Axia community in the Quantum Realm. <i>Lovecraft Country </i>star Jonathan Majors, meanwhile, will take on the role of Kang the Conqueror, reprising the role he played in <i>Loki.</i> While Kang the Conqueror will mark his debut in <i>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,</i> a version of him previously appeared in <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/television/loki-how-is-marvel-s-newest-tv-show-being-received-by-fans-1.1238806" target="_blank">the series <i>Loki</i></a><i> </i>as He Who Remains. The secret head of the Time Variance Authority, an organisation monitoring the various timelines of the multiverse, He Who Remains was the villain of Loki<i>. </i>But, as it turns out, he was a more benevolent version of Kang and aimed to ensure a single timeline to keep other versions of himself from appearing. The death of He Who Remains at the end of <i>Loki </i>marked the splintering of one timeline and another start to the multiverse. In <i>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, </i>Kang the Conqueror is one of the variants that He Who Remains wanted to stifle out of existence. Whether or not Ant-Man and the Wasp manage to defeat him by the end of the film, there will be more Kangs to reckon with, as Majors is already confirmed to reprise the role in <i>Avengers: The Kang Dynasty </i>and <i>Avengers: Secret Wars.</i> <i>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania</i> signals the beginning of the fifth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Other films that will be part of this phase include <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2022/12/30/the-15-most-anticipated-films-of-2023-including-creed-john-wick-and-dune-sequels/" target="_blank"><i>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3</i></a><i>, </i>set for release in May; <i>The Marvels,</i> which will be released in July; <i>Captain America: New World Order, </i>which will be released next May; and <i>Thunderbolts, </i>which will be released next July. <i>Blade, </i>set to be released in September next year, will feature <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/fashion/is-blade-star-mahershala-ali-hollywood-s-best-dressed-man-these-26-photos-suggest-so-1.889240" target="_blank">Academy Award-winning actor Mahershala Ali</a> as the vampire hunter. The animated anthology series <i>What If…? </i>and <i>Loki </i>will both be returning for season two in the first half of the year as part of Phase Five. Several new shows are also in the docket this year, including <i>Secret Invasion, Ironheart, Echo </i>and <i>Agatha: Coven of Chaos. Daredevil: Born Again, </i>meanwhile, will be released next year.