Like Marvel Studios' other comic book adaptations, the upcoming "Ant-Man" film makes a few changes to the titular character's mythology, not the least of which is the fact that the original suit wearer, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), will be an aging widower. However, in a recent interview with MTV News, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige promised that audiences will see Pym's wife, Janet van Dyne, in action.

"She factors in a number of spoiler-ish ways," Feige divulged. "But we will see Janet van Dyne in action in this film, and sort of what happened to her."

However, Feige and his team wouldn't reveal much more than that and the fact that what happened to Jan -- the original Wasp -- was bad enough to cause Pym to end his time as the Ant-Man. Additionally, it drove a wedge between him and his daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly). "Hope and her father don't get along very well, and they haven't for many years, for most of her life."

This new information hints that Jan, like her daughter, had an action-oriented career and may even have been a superhero in her own time, just like her comic book counterpart. However, "what happened to her" bespeaks some tragedy, be it death, debilitating injury or perhaps something else entirely.

Directed by Peyton Reed and starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas and Corey Stoll, "Ant-Man" arrives in theaters July 17.