‘Ms. Marvel’s’ Latest Episode Has a Giant Ant-Man Easter Egg

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe latest installment of Disney+’s “Ms. Marvel” is a love letter to Pakistan. Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy sought to bring the Marvel superhero out of the studio and into the vivid and colorful streets of Karachi, Pakistan and with it, she plants a giant Ant-Man easter egg on one of the locatoins.In the episode, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and her mom Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff) fly to Pakistan for a long-overdue family visit where Kamala also learns more about her unique powers.

However, due to the political situation in Pakistan, the show shot in Thailand.Obaid-Chinoy worked with production designer Christopher Glass on everything from mood boards to sharing visual ideas as they faithfully recreated Karachi.

During location scouts, they had looked at other cities around Asia before settling on Bangkok. Says Glass, “Sharmeen saw the photos we were getting from Thailand and she said, ‘That looks more like South Asia than any of the other places,’ and when we got on the ground, she was totally right.” “When I was thinking about my episodes – Obaid-Chinoy directs ep.

4 and 5 – I was thinking about how to bring my experience of working outside as much as possible. In the end, my episodes are shot almost entirely outside.” Forgoing green screen and volume screens, she adds, “You have to make sure the visual language, the sets, the props and the vehicles lend themselves to that.”For Glass, the biggest challenge was the weather, especially rain. “It was always a thing for us, we’d have to come up with ways of covering sets when it did rain.